David Lamb (journalist)
David Sherman Lamb(March 5, 1940 – June 5, 2016)[1]was a freelance writer who traveled the world for twenty-five years as aLos Angeles Timescorrespondent. He left the paper in 2004 after 34 years and then freelanced.[2]
Biography[edit]
David Lamb was born inBoston, Massachusetts.For most of his high school education, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he ran a gambling ring, and was nicknamed “The Joker.” At Exeter, Lamb was friends with Benno Schmidt, who later became president of Yale University; Lamb was expelled after the school's administration searched his dorm room over winter break, and even hired a locksmith to open up his locked box of IOUs.[3]
He later graduated from theUniversity of Maine's School of Journalism in 1962, where he was a member ofBeta Theta Pi.He began his career with TheOkinawaMorning Star,then moved on to theLas Vegas Review-Journal,and theOakland Tribune.He then joinedUnited Press InternationalinSan FranciscoandDenver;from 1968 to 1970, he worked as a battlefront correspondent inSaigon.He joined theLos Angeles Timesin 1970 and was based inLos Angeles,New York,andWashington, D.C.,as well as being bureau chief inSydney,Nairobi,CairoandHanoi.He covered the fall of Saigon in April 1975 on a temporary assignment for TheLos Angeles Times.
He was aNieman Fellow,an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow (1985),[4]aPew Fellowand a writer-in-residence at theUniversity of Southern California's School of Journalism. He is believed to be the only U.S. newspaper correspondent from theVietnam Warto later live in peacetimeHanoi, Vietnam.[5]
He married his partner, Sandy Northrop, in Nairobi in 1977.[6]
Books[edit]
- The Africans
- The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage[7]
- Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues
- A Sense of Place: Listening to Americans
- Over The Hills: A Midlife Escape Across America By Bicycle
- Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns
References[edit]
- ^Roberts, Sam,"David Lamb, Author and War Correspondent in Vietnam, Dies at 76",New YorkTimes,June 6, 2016.
- ^"Archived copy:About The IRP > Journalist-in-Residence > David Lamb".internationalreportingproject.org.2001. Archived fromthe originalon February 27, 2010.RetrievedJanuary 20,2012.
- ^Lamb, David (1986-01-05)."Exeter Remembered: Prep School Gambler Who Finally Makes His Point".Los Angeles Times.Retrieved2023-06-14.
- ^David Lamb,aliciapatterson.org.Retrieved 2016-06-06.
- ^Lamb, David (26 September 2010)."Vietnam's Phu Quoc island slowly opening up to the world".Los Angeles Times.
- ^Wilkinson, Tracy, and Jill Leovy,"David Lamb, longtime L.A. Times correspondent who covered Vietnam War, dies at 76",Los AngelesTimes,June 6, 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
- ^Adams, James (3 May 1987)."The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage by David Lamb (Random House: $19.95; 333 pp.)".Los Angeles Times.
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