Harrison Salisbury
Selected Bibliography
To Moscow and Beyond: A Reporter’s Narrative (1960)
Moscow Journal: The End of Stalin (1961)
The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (1969)
Black Night, White Snow: Russia’s Revolutions 1905-1917 (1977)
Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times (1980)
A Journey For Our Times: A Memoir (1983)
China: 100 Years of Revolution (1983)
The Long March: The Untold Story (1985)
The Great Black Dragon Fire: A Chinese Inferno (1989)
Harrison Salisbury (November 14, 1908-July 5, 1993) was born in Minneapolis in 1908. He attended the University of Minnesota before going to work for the St. Paul bureau of United Press, where he worked for over twenty years. He was the United Press’s foreign editor during the last two years of World War II and also worked for the New York Times. He was their first regular correspondent in Moscow after World War II ended. Salisbury covered many of the major events of the twentieth century; in addition to World War II, he covered the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and the student protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Salisbury wrote 29 books and continued to write and publish until his death in 1993. He wrote historical works and memoirs about his travels and journalism. Two of his most well-known books are The 900 Days: the Siege of Leningrad and Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June. Salisbury continued writing and publishing until his sudden death in 1993 from a heart attack. He won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1955, two George Polk Awards, and an Ischia International Journalism Award.