Seymour Topping retired from the New York Times in 1993 after service as foreign editor and as managing editor for ten years. He served until 2002 as administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and is now emeritus professor of international journalism at Columbia University. His previous books include Journey Between Two Chinas; The Peking Letter: A Novel of the Chinese Civil War; and Fatal Crossroads: A Novel of Vietnam 1945.

Seymour Topping retired from the New York Times in 1993 after service as foreign editor and as managing editor for ten years. He served until 2002 as administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and is now emeritus professor of international journalism at Columbia University. His previous books include Journey Between Two Chinas; The Peking Letter: A Novel of the Chinese Civil War; and Fatal Crossroads: A Novel of Vietnam 1945.

Seymour Topping retired from the New York Times in 1993 after service as foreign editor and as managing editor for ten years. He served until 2002 as administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and is now emeritus professor of international journalism at Columbia University. His previous books include Journey Between Two Chinas; The Peking Letter: A Novel of the Chinese Civil War; and Fatal Crossroads: A Novel of Vietnam 1945.