- Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caen was a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes—"a continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area
| Born: | 03 April 1916 Comment | | When did Herb Caen die? / Died | 01 February 1997 | | How many years did Herb Caen live? / Lived | 80 years | | Zodiac sign: | Aries |
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- "The secret of Caen's success", wrote the editor of rival publication, wasnnhis outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day's happenings
- A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco
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