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From 1997 to 1999, Harold Evans was Editorial Director and Vice Chairman of U.S. News and World Report, the New York Daily News, and Fast Company. He was President and Publisher of the Random House Trade Group from 1990 to 1997. He lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography) Harold Evans was an American- British Journalist, author and show more publisher. He was born, Harold Matthew Evans, in Manchester, England, on June 28, 1928. He got his first job in 1944 at a weekly, The Ashton-under-Lyne Reporter, before serving in the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1949. He studied economics and political science at the University of Durham, graduating in 1952, and then joined The Manchester Evening News as a reporter and editorial writer. He continued his studies at the University of Chicago and Stanford University on an American fellowship from 1956 to 1957. In 1961, Mr. Evans became editor of The Northern Echo, a paper in Darlington, a working-class area in northeast England. A few years later, in 1966, he was hired in 1966 by The Sunday Times, he became editor a year later and transformed the weekly into Britain's best investigative paper. In 1982, he was forced out as editor of the Times of London and reinvented himself in the United States as a publisher, author. He taught at Duke and Yale Universities, became editor of the book publisher The Atlantic Monthly Press and took up the post of editorial director of the newsmagazine U.S. News & World Report. He was the founding editor of Condé Nast Traveler, where he worked from 1986 to 1990. From 1990 to 1997, he was president and publisher of Random House. He became an American citizen in 1993. After leaving Random House in 1997, he was an executive of The Daily News in New York, U.S. News & World Report (in a second stint), The Atlantic Monthly and the business magazine Fast Company. In 2011, he was named editor at large of the Reuters news agency. He was knighted in 2004 for his services to journalism, despite having left Britain 20 years earlier and becoming an American citizen. As an author, Evans's books include The American Century (1998, with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker); War Stories: Reporting in the Time of Conflict from the Crimea to Iraq (2003); They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine, Two Centuries of Innovators (2004, with Gail Buckland and David Lefer); My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times (2009), his memoir; and Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters (2018). Harold Matthew Evans died on September 23, 2020, at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) show less