Dero A. Saunders
American journalist and classical scholar
About Dero A. Saunders
Lived 1914 – 2002 (aged 87–88). Dero A. Saunders was an American journalist and classical philologist.
Dero Ames Saunders (1914–2002) was an American journalist and classical scholar.
He was born in Starkville, Mississippi. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he was executive editor of Forbes magazine from 1960–1981 and continued to edit a regular column until 1999.
As a reporter for Fortune magazine in 1957 he conducted the only known press interview with reclusive American businessman Daniel Ludwig.
With John H. Collins he compiled a noted translation of Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome. He is also known for his abridged version of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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American journalist and classical scholar (1914–2002)
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