Robert Sam Anson

Robert Sam Anson (born 1945) is an American journalist and author.[1] He has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1995.[2] He is the author of six nonfiction books, including Gone Crazy and Back Again: The Rise and Fall of the Rolling Stone Generation, about Jann Wenner and his magazine.[3]

Anson covered the Vietnam War for Time, beginning in 1969. On August 3, 1970, he was briefly taken prisoner by North Vietnamese troops.[4] He avoided execution after convincing his captors that he was a journalist.[5] Anson wrote of his experience in War News: A Young Reporter in Indochina.

Anson has also contributed to Esquire, Life, and Mademoiselle.[6] His 1981 Esquire cover story on Doug Kenney, "The Life and Death of a Comic Genius," was the first major print remembrance of the National Lampoon humorist and screenwriter.[7]

Books
  • McGovern: A Biography (1972)
  • "They've Killed the President!": The Search for the Murderers of John F. Kennedy (1975)
  • Gone Crazy and Back Again: The Rise and Fall of the Rolling Stone Generation (1981)
  • Exile: The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon (1984)
  • Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry (1987)
  • War News: A Young Reporter in Indochina (1989)

References
  1. "Robert Sam Anson | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  2. Magazine, Vanity Fair. "Robert Sam Anson". Vanity Fair.
  3. "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Books Of The Times". February 10, 1981 – via NYTimes.com.
  4. "Bio, Anson, Robert". www.pownetwork.org.
  5. magazine, Reviewed by Marc Leepson, Book editor and columnist for Veteran. "ALL CAUGHT UP IN THE FURY OF WAR". chicagotribune.com.
  6. "The Sunday Profile : Last of a Breed : Robert Sam Anson would go to hell and back for a good story--a passion that many admire. But some say making him editor of Los Angeles magazine was a risky move". September 24, 1995 – via LA Times.
  7. Anson, Robert Sam (March 1, 2014). "Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind 'Animal House' and National Lampoon" – via www.thedailybeast.com.



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