Nationality American | Years active 1930s - 2009 | |
Born December 15, 1909 ( 1909-12-15 ) Pittsburgh Occupation journalist, editor, author Parent(s) William Bendiner, Lillian Schwartz Books The Fall of the Wild, the Rise of the Zoo | ||
Robert Bendiner (December 15, 1909 - February 7, 2009) was an American journalist, editor, and author who served as managing editor of The Nation and as a member of the editorial board of the New York Times.
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He also contributed to The New Republic, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Harper's.
Background
Bendiner was born December 15, 1909, in Pittsburgh. His parents were William Bendiner and Lillian Schwartz.
He graduated from City College of New York in 1933.
Career
Bendiner wrote for the Daily Worker in the 1930s.
He served as managing editor of The Nation magazine from 1937 to 1944. In 1942, he published a book expected to criticize the U.S. State Department. In 1943, he joined 250 liberals in supporting the continuation of the American Labor Party against a communist faction within.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1945.
He returned to The Nation as an associate editor from 1946 to 1950.
He wrote freelance from 1951 to 1968 and again from 1978 until his death. He was "associated" with the New York Times from 1969 to 1977.
He chaired the Wellesley Summer Institute Social Progress from 1946 to 1953. He was faculty at the Salzburg Seminary in American Studies in 1956 and visiting lecturer in journalism at Wesleyan University in 1983.
Personal life and death
Bendiner was a member of the National Press Club and of the Coffee House in New York City.
Bendiner received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Long Island University in 1994.
His brother was Elmer Bendiner.
He married Kathryn Rosenberg in 1934. They had two sons and a daughter.
He died in February 2009.
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