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(1919-2017) Author, editor. Robert H. Phelps was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, and died in Lincoln, Massachusetts. He had been editor at The New York Times and The Boston Globe.

Full Name

Robert H. Phelps

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Phelps received a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.

1919

BIRTH

Robert Howard Phelps was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, on July 19, 1919.

1959

LITWORK

Men In The News--1958: Personality Sketches From The New York Times
Lippincott

Edited by Robert H. Phelps.

1966

LITWORK

Libel: Rights, Risks and Responsibilities
Macmillan

Textbook coauthored with E. Douglas Hamilton.

1973

LITWORK

Witness to History 1929-1969
New York: W W Norton & Company

Memoirs of United States diplomat Charles E. Bohlen, edited by Robert H. Phelps.

2009

LITWORK

God and the Editor: My Search for Meaning at The New York Times
Syracuse University Press
0815609140 / 978-0815609148
Memoir.

2017

DEATH

Robert H. Phelps died in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on May 10, 2017.

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