C. L. Sulzberger

Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II (October 27, 1912 – September 20, 1993) was an American journalist, diarist, and non-fiction writer. He was a member of the family that owned The New York Times and he was that newspaper's lead foreign correspondent during the 1940s and 1950s.

Biography Sulzberger was born in New York City on October 27, 1912 to Leopold Sulzberger (1885–1926) and Beatrice A Josephi (1890-?). He was the grandson of Cyrus Leopold Sulzberger and the nephew of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who was publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. The Times also denied that Sulzberger had ever been a paid CIA agent.

Sulzberger received a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1951 for his "exclusive interview" with imprisoned Archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac.

Personal life In 1942 Sulzberger married Marina Tatiana Ladas, a Greek who was often his travel companion and ensured that they had an active and elegant social life in Paris. She died in 1976 and he died at their Paris home on September 20, 1993. who later became 4th Viscount Camrose, thereby linking two newspaper dynasties. The Camrose family had once owned The Daily Telegraph and retained an interest in that paper until it was taken over by Conrad Black in 1986.

Selected books Sit Down with John L. Lewis (New York: Random House, 1938) — about CIO founder John L. Lewis The American Heritage Picture History of World War II (New York: American Heritage, 1966), by Sulzberger with the editors of American Heritage A Long Row of Candles: Memoirs and Diaries, 1934-1954 (New York: Macmillan, 1969) The Tooth Merchant: A Novel (New York: Quadrangle, 1973) — a novel in which Sulzberger himself appears briefly as a journalist An Age of Mediocrity: Memoirs and Diaries, 1963-1972 (New York: Macmillan, 1973) Go Gentle Into the Night (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976) – Sulzberger's anthology of prayers The Fall of Eagles (New York: Crown Publishers, 1977)