Fatal Crossroads: A Novel of Vietnam 1945
Seymour Topping covered the Chinese civil war for three years and in 1950 opened The Associated Press bureau in Saigon. After reporting the French Indochina War for two years, he was posted in London and Berlin. He joined theNew York Timesin 1959 and following three years in Moscow became Chief Correspondent Southeast Asia. He was appointed Foreign Editor in 1969 serving later as Managing Editor. He is now SanPaolo Professor Emeritus of International Journalism at Columbia University and lives with his wife, Audrey, a photojournalist, in Scarsdale, New York.