Roy Rowan
American foreign correspondent and author / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Roy Rowan (1 February 1920-13 September 2016(2016-09-13) (aged 96)[1]) was an American foreign correspondent, editor, and author. He reported on the 1949 revolution[2] that led to the founding of the People's Republic of China, as well as the Korean[3] and Vietnam Wars. Rowan worked for Time-Life and its successor media company, Time-Warner, for more than 30 years. From late 1959 to 1970 he was Life magazine's assistant managing editor in charge of news. In 1972, Rowan returned to Time-Life and served as Time magazine's bureau chief for Asia and Australia until 1978. Roy Rowan spent the latter part of his career from 1978 to 2015 as a feature story writer for Time magazine and on the Board of Editors of Fortune magazine while writing 10 published books on a wide variety of topics.