Malcolm Browne

Malcolm Wilde Browne (April 17, 1931 – August 27, 2012) was an American journalist and photographer, best known for his award-winning photograph of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức in 1963. He later attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and studied chemistry. He was assigned to the Pacific edition of the Stars and Stripes, where he worked for two years. He worked for the Middletown Times Herald-Record, then joined the Associated Press (AP). He worked in Baltimore from 1959 until 1961, at which point he was made chief correspondent for Indochina. On June 11, 1963, he took his famous photographs of the death of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy road intersection in Saigon, in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and received many job offers, eventually leaving the AP in 1965.

Browne worked for ABC TV for about a year but became dissatisfied with television journalism ,

The correspondent was married three times, meeting his third wife in 1961 while she was working for the Saigon government's Ministry of Information. The couple married five years later and had two children. He was 81 years old. Overseas Press Club Award James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public, American Chemical Society (1992) Honorary Member, Sigma Xi (2002)

Works

Browne, Malcolm W. Muddy Boots and Red Socks, Random House: New York, 1993, (autobiography) Saigon's Finale (article on U.S. military defeat in Vietnam) The New Face of War (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1965) . Ground-breaking account of tactics in the Vietnam War.