Henry Anatole Grunwald (1922–2005) was an Austrian-born American journalist and diplomat, best known as managing editor of Time (1968–77) and editor-in-chief of Time, Inc. (1979–87.)
Born in Vienna, he fled Austria after the 1938 Anschluss, settling in the U.S. in 1940. He started at Time as a copy boy while studying at New York University, rising to its youngest senior editor at 28. As managing editor and later editor-in-chief, he introduced writer bylines and expanded coverage with Behavior, Energy, and The Sexes. He played a key role in shifting Time away from Republican partisanship, famously writing the editorial calling for Nixon’s resignation. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan appointed him U.S. Ambassador to Austria (1987–90.)
Grunwald authored Salinger: A Critical and Personal Portrait (1962,) One Man’s America: A Journalist’s Search for the Heart of His Country (1997,) Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight (1999,) and the novel A Saint, More or Less (2003,) reflecting his engagement with journalism, politics, and introspection.
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Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
—Henry Grunwald
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