Stewart Kellerman

Stewart Kellerman is an American author, journalist, and blogger who has reported on wars in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Born in New York City on Dec. 13, 1941, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 1964. He was the 1972–73 Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he focused on American relations with China and the Soviet Union.

He was a journalist with United Press International from 1965 to 1980, primarily as a diplomatic correspondent in Washington and a foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Among other stories, he covered the war in Vietnam, the Israeli-Arab conflict, guerrilla warfare in South America, and the Camp David peace talks. In the 1980s and ’90s, he was an editor at the New York Times, specializing in foreign, metropolitan and cultural news. He wrote the Times’s column on new video releases, reviewed books, and wrote articles on literary subjects.