Richard Lee Strout (March 14, 1898 – August 19, 1990) was an American journalist and commentator. He was nationalcorrespondent forThe Christian Science Monitor from 1923 and he wrote the"TRB from Washington" column forThe New Republic from 1943 to 1983; he collected the best of his columns inTRB: Views and Perspectives on the Presidency (New York: Macmillan, 1979), a book notable for showing that Strout was one of the first observers of the American presidency to express worry about what later scholars and journalists came to call theimperial presidency.
Strout was born inCohoes, New York, on March 14, 1898, and was raised inBrooklyn. He graduated fromHarvard University in 1919.
In 1919, he moved to England to work in journalism before returning to the United States in 1921, and held various newspaper positions for several years before beginning an association withThe Christian Science Monitor, where he worked until his retirement in 1984. He received a master's degree in economics from Harvard in 1923.
He won theGeorge Polk Memorial Award for national reporting in 1958 and aspecial Pulitzer Prize for Journalism in 1978.[1] The Special Award cited "distinguished commentary from Washington over many years as staff correspondent forThe Christian Science Monitor and contributor toThe New Republic."[2] In 1973, Strout received the Golden Plate Award of theAmerican Academy of Achievement.[3]
Strout was a resident ofWashington, D.C., where e died there on August 19, 1990, eleven days after being hospitalized for a fall.[1]
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