Skip to content
Contact Us

General Information

Bio

(1921-2020) Journalist, author. Seymour Topping was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in White Plains, New York. He was an editor of The New York Times.

Full Name

Seymour Topping

Locations

Westchester

Author's Timeline

1921

BIRTH

Seymour Topping was born Seymour Topolsky in Manhattan, New York, on December 11, 1921.

1939

OTHER

Mr. Topping graduated from Evander Childs High School in the Bronx, New York, in 1939.

1972

LITWORK

Journey Between Two Chinas
Harper & Row
978-0060143299
Nonfiction.

1993

OTHER

Mr. Topping was a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University from 1993 until 2002.

1999

LITWORK

The Peking Letter: A Novel of the Chinese Civil War
New York: PublicAffairs
978-1891620355
Novel.

2005

LITWORK

Fatal Crossroads: A Novel of Vietnam 1945
White Plains, New York: Signature Books
978-1891936692
Novel.

2010

LITWORK

On the Front Lines of the Cold War
Louisiana State University Press
978-0807135563
Memoir.

2012

RESIDENCE

Mr. Topping lived in Scarsdale, New York.

2020

DEATH

Seymour Topping died at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, on November 8, 2020.

Found Wrong Information?

Contact us or use our form to request an update to your information or request an update on behalf of the author.

Have a Correction? pencil Contact Us paper-airplane