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Heywood Broun
1888–1939
A lively New York columnist with a sharp wit and a strong sense of fairness, he became one of the best-known newspaper voices of his day. He wrote about sports, politics, and everyday life, and helped found the American Newspaper Guild.
5 Audiobooks
The Boy Grew Older
by Heywood Broun
Pieces of Hate; And Other Enthusiasms
by Heywood Broun
Seeing Things at Night
by Heywood Broun
The A. E. F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces
by Heywood Broun
Our Army at the Front
by Heywood Broun
About the author
Born in Brooklyn in 1888, Heywood Broun built a newspaper career that ranged far beyond the sports page. After attending Harvard without graduating, he worked for major New York papers and became widely known for his syndicated column It Seems to Me, which mixed humor, opinion, and a deep sympathy for ordinary people.
Broun wrote about far more than games. He covered public life with an outspoken, liberal point of view and earned a reputation for championing underdogs and social causes. His work as a columnist made him one of the most recognizable journalists of the 1920s and 1930s.
He is also remembered for helping found the American Newspaper Guild, a major step in organizing journalists as workers with rights of their own. Broun died in 1939, but his legacy lives on in both American column writing and the history of press labor.