Foster Rhea Dulles

Foster Rhea Dulles (24 January 1900, Englewood, New Jersey – 11 September 1970, Jamaica, Vermont) was an American journalist, historian, and author. He specialized in political and cultural relations between the United States and East Asia, The diplomats John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles were his cousins. (Princeton-in-Peking). In 1922 he became a correspondent in Beijing for the Christian Science Monitor. He returned to the United States, and in 1923 he joined the staff of the New York Herald. In 1924 he joined the staff of Foreign Affairs. From 1925 to 1926 he worked at the Paris bureau of the New York Herald Tribune. From 1927 to 1933 he wrote editorials for the New York Evening Post. He was a visiting professor of American history at Bennington College for the academic year 1938–1940, at Smith College for the academic year 1939–1940 and at Swarthmore College for the academic year 1940‐1941. and to the Soviet Union in 1958. He was a Fulbright lecturer in Japan for the academic year 1961‐1962.

Family Foster R. Dulles's father was William Dulles (1857–1915), who was a lawyer and corporation president, and an uncle of Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles.

On August 7, 1926, Foster R. Dulles married Marion Richardson in Bound Brook, New Jersey.

Upon his death in 1970 he was survived by his widow, four daughters, and eight grandchildren.

(later editions co-authored by Melvyn Dubofsky)