Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912-July 9, 1992) was born in North Dakota in 1912 and moved with his family to Minnesota after drought hit farms in the 1920s. He graduated from Central High School and worked for the Minneapolis Journal while he attended the University of Minnesota. With his first wife, he sailed to Europe and got a job with the Paris bureau of the New York Herald Tribune. Weeks from the start of World War II, Sevareid was recruited by Edward R. Murrow for CBS radio. He remained an influential correspondent for CBS until retirement.

Sevareid has received many awards for his reporting. He won two Emmys, three Peabody Awards, and a Harry S. Truman Award. He has written several memoirs including one about a canoe trip that he took from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. His books include Not So Wild a Dream, Between the Wars, and Small Sounds in the Night.