Seymour Topping

Seymour Topping (December 11, 1921 – November 8, 2020) was an American journalist. He was best known for his work as a foreign correspondent focusing on wars in China, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the Cold War in Europe. 
From 1969 to 1986, he was the second senior-most editor at "The New York Times". He was the San Paolo Professor Emeritus of International Journalism at Columbia University. He was administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes from 1993 to 2002. 
Topping died on November 8, 2020 in White Plains, New York, at the age of 98 from a stroke.
Bibliography.
Topping was the author of the following books:
Articles by Topping and his wife were included in "The New York Times Report from Red China" (New York: Quadrangle Books, 1971).