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David E. Reed (1927–1990), was a ''Reader's Digest'' roving editor. ==Career== He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Chicago at age 18 and began his journalism career with the Chicago City News Service. He later joined the ''Chicago Daily News''. Reed was a roving editor with ''Reader's Digest'' who reported from more than 100 countries and covered more than a dozen wars, including wars in Vietnam, Angola, Nicaragua, Cambodia, and many conflicts elsewhere in the world. Reed learned Swahili during a two-year fellowship from the ''Institute of Current World Affairs''() to Kenya during the Mau Mau insurgency in the 1950s. In the late 1950s, he was a reporter for the ''U.S. News and World Report''. He joined the ''Reader's Digest'' in the early 1960s and worked there for the remainder of his lifetime. He interviewed several United States presidents, including then president Richard Nixon at the White House in 1971: (). He was the author of ''111 Days in Stanleyville'', Harper & Row, NY, 1965 and ''Up Front in Vietnam'', Funk & Wagnalls, NY, 1967. ''111 Days in Stanleyville'' was reprinted as ''Save The Hostages'', Bantam Books, NY, 1988. Reed wrote ''111 Days in Stanleyville'' after spending more than four years in Africa during seven trips there on writing assignments. He took a two-month overland trip across the continent, and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. In 1960 he covered the independence push in Congo as a staff writer for the ''U.S. News and World Report'' magazine. Reed wrote ''Up Front in Vietnam'' after spending months in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He travelled across Vietnam, criss-crossing back and forth in C-130 cargo planes, helicopters, trucks and jeeps. In the book, Reed wrote a series of sketches about what it was like to be up front with the soldiers in the combat zone in Vietnam. In 1988, Reed received the Republic of China's International Communications Service award. Reed was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame posthumously in 1992. () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David E. Reed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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