William Boyd Dickinson

Who was William Boyd Dickinson?

William Boyd Dickinson, Jr. was an American war correspondent for United Press International during World War II. He was born into a family with a tradition of writing and public service. His father, William B. Dickinson, Sr. was an attorney and his mother, Alice Hillman Dickinson in 1927 became the first woman elected to a school board in the state of Missouri. His uncle was the noted Pittsburgh physician and medical author Breese M. Dickinson and another uncle, Cedric Dickinson was a Canadian journalist.