12 Facts About Malcolm Browne

Malcolm Browne's mother was a Quaker with fervently anti-war opinions, while his father was an architect who was Roman Catholic.

Malcolm Browne later attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and studied chemistry.

Malcolm Browne was assigned to the Pacific edition of the Stars and Stripes, where he worked for two years.

Malcolm Browne worked for the Middletown Times Herald-Record, then joined the Associated Press.

Malcolm Browne worked in Baltimore from 1959 until 1961, at which point he was made chief correspondent for Indochina.

Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and received many job offers, eventually leaving the AP in 1965.

Malcolm Browne worked for ABC TV for about a year but became dissatisfied with television journalism, and worked freelance for several years.

Malcolm Browne did a year's fellowship at Columbia University with the Council on Foreign Relations.

Malcolm Browne returned to the Times in 1985 and went on to cover the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Malcolm Browne was a distant relative of the Irish writer Oscar Wilde; his grandfather was the writer's cousin.

Malcolm Browne's mother professed pacifist views and belonged to the Quaker community, his father worked as an architect and practiced Catholicism.

Malcolm Browne died in Hanover, New Hampshire on August 27,2012, of complications from Parkinson's disease.