Flora Lewis ’41

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Flora Lewis is one of the world’s foremost interpretive journalists. She is presently the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times Paris bureau. Beyond factual reporting, she has the ability to impart vivid dimension and precise meaning to significant events as they occur in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Lewis became a foreign correspondent in 1945 with the Associated Press. For eight years, she was chief of Washington Post bureaus in Bonn, London and New York, and in 1972, she became Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. She is the author of the well-known book, One of Our H-Bombs is Missing, and many of her articles have appeared in Life, The New Yorker and Saturday Review.

Included among Lewis’ numerous awards and honors are the French government’s Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur; the University of Ohio’s Carr Van Anda Award for Distinction in Journalism; and an honorary doctorate degree from Princeton University.

A native of Los Angeles, Lewis was awarded her B.A. in political science from UCLA, and she received an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. While on the UCLA Daily Bruin staff, she served as campus correspondent to the Los Angeles Times. In 1982, she was named the first Honorary Fellow of the UCLA College of Letters and Science.