A celebration of his life will be announced at a later date. D.C. He was 74. Married for 52 years, two kids, a grandchild, worked in 91 countries, published 20 books. I've had a fantastic time, always. Perhaps that is why I am able to have hope now, to live with cancer as fully as possible.
Life is too dear to waste it worrying about the unknown.
Szulc, who spoke seven languages, covered the rise of the United Nations for United Press International from 1949 to 1953, then joined the New York Times. In the next two decades, he reported from Southeast Asia, Latin America, Portugal, Spain, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Washington, witnessing some of history's most wrenching moments, including the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the Cuban revolution. He later turned to freelance writing, crafting informative magazine articles and books on foreign policy and the world leaders who fashioned it. When World War II broke out, his family moved him to France until the German occupation and then to Brazil. He studied at the University of Brazil for two years before becoming a reporter for The Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro in 1945.