About the Author

Harold Evans is the author of the New York Times bestseller The American Century. He was the founding editor of Conde Nast Traveler, editorial director of U.S. News & World Repor"t," and president and publisher of Random House, where he published a record number of bestsellers. He was editor of the London Sunday Times and of The Times. He lives in New York.

Reviews

GREAT PRAISE FOR MY PAPER CHASE

"["My Paper Chase"] is a fight song that revels in the music of times past...It celebrates bygone glories and dwells on the truths of good journalism that still obtain."-- New York Times Book Review "David Carr "

"Not only is ["My Paper Chase"] a loving homage to the joys of old-fashioned British newspapering, but it has allowed Mr. Evans to tell at proper length stories that should now be taught as classics in journalism schools worldwide."

-- New York Times "Simon Winchester "


GREAT PRAISE FOR MY PAPER CHASE:
"["My Paper Chase"] is a fight song that revels in the music of times past...It celebrates bygone glories and dwells on the truths of good journalism that still obtain." -- New York Times Book Review "David Carr"

GREAT PRAISE FOR MY PAPER CHASE: "[My Paper Chase"] is a fight song that revels in the music of times past...It celebrates bygone glories and dwells on the truths of good journalism that still obtain." -- New York Times Book Review "David Carr"

"A fascinating memoir that evokes a disappeared world of Underwood typewriters and smoke-filled newsrooms. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect that a life in journalism running from the era of glue pots and hot metal to the technology of blogs and iPhones might be expected to yield something a little more revealing than the pronouncement that "the question is not whether Internet journalism will be dominant, but whether it will maintain the quality of the best print journalism." -- Irish Times "Hugh Linehan"

"Amid the pervasive gloom surrounding the future of newspapers, Harold Evans has produced a memoir to lift the spirits..." -- Financial Times "Lionel Barber"

"Journalists' memoirs tend to be as transitory as the great stories they so lovingly recall....Few of them impart much of value, except perhaps for a fleeting sense of nostalgia...Harold Evans must surely be counted an exception, because, for more than a decade, he ran the best newspaper in the world. The Sunday Times", in the 1970s, was good because it placed journalism at the heart of the paper, and allowed it free rein...The stories for which Evans and his papers were once celebrated have long faded. But there is nothing ephemeral about the journalistic standards which he embraced. His may have been the hot metal era, but its lessons remain as important for the bloggers of today as they were for the reporters of his time. Those of us who were there were proud to be part of it." -- The Spectator "Magnus LInklater"

"Sir Harold built a successful career for himself in the United States, but America's gain has been a loss for British journalism. Our press has missed his leadership in the many crises we have faced over ethics and threats to editorial freedom. He not only wrote the standard textbooks, he embodied the values of honest journalism." -- The Observer "Donald Trelford"

"The autobiography of Harold Evans, Britain's greatest post-war editor...is a series of dramatically crafted stories recalled from the highest newspaper perch of all...This is Evans at his storytelling best." -- Times Literary Supplement "Peter Stothard"

[My Paper Chase"] is a work of extravagant exuberance. It is tough, optimistic, full of verve and friendship, written with clarity and energy, and goes like a train..." -- The Telegraph "Melvyn Bragg"