Actor · Writer
Born Feb 23, 1904 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Active 1951–1993 · Awards: George Polk Award, Peabody Awards, National Book Award, The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian. His history of Nazi Germany, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), has been read and cited in scholarly works for more than 60 years; its 50th…