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Robert Spiers Benjamin
American journalist
Robert Spiers Benjamin (17 August 1917 – 20 September 2009) was a 20th-century journalist.[1] He was a founding member of the Overseas Press Club. Following his death, the club named an award in his memory for 'Best reporting in any medium on Latin America'.[2]
He wrote and edited several books[3]
- The Inside Story, about the Overseas Press Club
- The Vacation Guide
- Eye Witness
- I am an American, a symposium of radio interviews with important naturalized Americans. Commissioned by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service
- Call to Adventure: True Tales of Adventures Set Down by the Men who Actually Experienced Them, 1935, an anthology for the Adventurers' Club
As a child, he was a boy scout.[4]
