Herb Caen
Journalist, Author
1916 – 1997
Who was Herb Caen?
Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caen was a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes—"a continuous love letter to San Francisco" —appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
The secret of Caen's success [was] his outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day's happenings.
A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco."
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- Born
- Apr 3, 1916
Sacramento - Also known as
- Herbert Eugene Caen
- Mr. San Francisco
- King of Three-Dot Journalism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Employment
(1932 - 1936)- Hearst Corporation
(1958 - 1996) - Hearst Corporation
(1936 - ) - San Francisco Newspaper Company LLC
(1950 - 1958)
- Lived in
- Sacramento
- San Francisco
( - 1997/02/01) - San Francisco Bay Area
- Died
- Feb 1, 1997
San Francisco
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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