John F. Osborne
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He was born in Corinth, Mississippi.[2]
Career
Osborne wrote for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and the Associated Press before joining the National Recovery Administration, and then the Tennessee Valley Authority, as a U.S. government public relations officer during the Great Depression.[3]
He became an editor at Time–Life. In 1940, William Saroyan lists him among "contributing editors" at Time in the play, Love's Old Sweet Song.[4] Eventually, he became Time's London editor and then Far East editor (based in Hong Kong) in the 1950s.[citation needed]
After returning to the United States, he lived in Georgetown and in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York.[citation needed]
He later became senior editor at New Republic.[2]
Awards
Osborne won the Polk Award for magazine journalism in 1973.[5]
His work landed him on the first Nixon's Enemies List, a limited master list of famous people that President Nixon considered his direct political opponents.[6][7]
