Harold Evans
Journalist, editor and author
Sir Harold Evans was a British-American journalist and writer who edited The Sunday Times and went on to write books on history and journalism.
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Born 1928 in Newton Heath, United Kingdom Died 2020
About Harold Evans
Harold Evans (1928 to 2020) was born in Manchester, England, and became one of Britain's best-known newspaper editors. He edited The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, then The Times for a year. At The Sunday Times he led a campaign to win compensation for the mothers of children harmed by the drug thalidomide. In 2001, British journalists voted him the greatest British newspaper editor of all time. Evans later built a career in the United States, where he became a citizen. He was founding editor of Condé Nast Traveler and president and publisher of Random House. He also wrote books on history and journalism. His titles include Do I Make Myself Clear? He was knighted in 2004 for services to journalism and became editor-at-large of Reuters in 2011.