Hill, Gladwin

In 1944 Gladwin Hill joined the Associated Press as a World War II correspondent. Following the war, he joined the New York Times. When he retired in 1981, Hill had served as that newspaper's Los Angeles bureau chief for over twenty years. An astute observer and analyst of California politics, Hill in 1968 published Dancing Bear: An Inside Look at California Politics, considered a classic work on the state's modern political history. Hill's interest and commitment to environmental issues led him to write two additional books: Our Troubled Waters (1971) and Madman in a Lifeboat: Issues of the Environmental Crisis (1973).

Hill was born on June 16, 1914 in Boston, MA; BSc, Harvard Univ., 1936; became reporter and feature writer for the Boston transcript, 1932-36; worked variously as a reporter, wire editor, feature writer, columnist, and war correspondent; war correspondent in Europe, 1944-46; was first reporter to fly into Germany on a US bombing raid and filed the first eyewitness story on the Normandy invasion; served as chief of the Los Angeles bureau of the New York times, 1946-68; member of the board of directors, LA Press Club; became national environmental correspondent in 1969; publications include Dancing bear : an inside look at California politics (1968) and Madman in a lifeboat : issues of the environmental crisis (1973).

Gladwin Hill (1914-1993) was a political writer for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.