Herbert Bayard Swope

Born

January 5, 1882

Died

June 20, 1958 (aged 76)

Known as

journalist, editor, editing staff

Herbert Bayard Swope Sr. was an American editor, journalist and intimate of the Algonquin Round Table. Swope spent most of his career at the New York World. He was the first and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting. Swope was called the "best reporter in America" by Lord Northcliffe of the London Daily Mail.

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