Robert Spiers Benjamin (17 August 1917 – 20 September 2009) was a 20th-century journalist. He was a founding member of the

Overseas Press Club The Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member, as was the war correspondent Peggy Hull. The club seeks to maintain a ...

. Following his death, the club named an award in his memory for 'Best reporting in any medium on Latin America'. He wrote and edited several books * ''The Inside Story'', about the

* ''The Vacation Guide'' * ''Eye Witness'' * ''I am an American'', a symposium of radio interviews with important naturalized Americans. Commissioned by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service * ''Call to Adventure: True Tales of Adventures Set Down by the Men who Actually Experienced Them'', 1935, an anthology for the

Adventurers' Club The Adventurers' Club of New York was an adventure-oriented private men's club founded in New York City in 1912 by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, editor of the popular pulp magazine ''Adventure''. There were 34 members at the first meeting. In its sec ...

As a child, he was a boy scout.Robert Spiers Benjamin, ed., ''Call to Adventure: True Tales of Adventures Set Down by the Men who Actually Experienced Them''. London; Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., 1935.

Links

* Obituary by the Overseas Press Club https://www.opcofamerica.org/news/robert-benjamin-last-founding-member-opc-dies

References

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