Benjamin Fine was an American journalist and writer.
12 Facts About Benjamin Fine
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Benjamin Fine worked at The New York Times from 1938 to 1958.
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Benjamin Fine was born September 1,1905, in New York City to Belarusian immigrants of Jewish descent, Charles and Rebecca Fine, and spent his youth in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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Benjamin Fine's education continued at Columbia where, in 1935, he earned another master's degree and a PhD in 1941.
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Benjamin Fine held seven honorary degrees; they were bestowed by Bryant College, Rhode Island State College, Yeshiva University, and the University of Toledo.
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Benjamin Fine began a 20-year career at The New York Times in 1938, where he started as an education reporter.
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Benjamin Fine cooperated with the Senate panel calling his one-year membership in the Communist Party from 1935 to 1936 while he was a student at Columbia University's Teachers College.
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Benjamin Fine's appearance explained his brother's, David Fine, appearance two days earlier.
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David Benjamin Fine was a New York movie exhibitor specializing in Russian films.
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Benjamin Fine resigned as education editor at the Times in 1958 to accept the position of dean of the Graduate School of Education at Yeshiva University, a position he relinquished in 1960.
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In 1962 Benjamin Fine took a job as headmaster of Sands Point Country Day School, in Long Island, where he stayed until 1971.
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Benjamin Fine was 69 years old at the time of his death.