Herb Caen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHerb Caen
American newspaper columnist
Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1916
Place of Birth: Sacramento, California, United States
Date of Death: 01-Feb-1997
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Herb Caen
- Herb Caen (; 1916–1997) was a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes—"a continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years (excepting a relatively brief defection to The San Francisco Examiner) and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. "The secret of Caen's success", wrote the editor of a rival publication, was his outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day's happenings. A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco."
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