The article profiles journalist John Lear. Lear was born in Pennsylvania. He sold "The Saturday Evening Post" as a boy and at eighteen was editing a daily paper. He was writing political news for the Harrisburg Patriot and covered assignments in various parts of the world. While travelling around South America for the Associated Press, he got lost in the Sechura Desert of Peru. He attempted to put his desert experiences into a book.
Published
1944
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