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<html> <head> <title>Heywood Broun</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/511/000167010/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Heywood BrounAKA Heywood Campbell BrounBorn: <a href="/lists/859/000106541/" class=proflink>7-Dec</a>-<a href="/lists/887/000105572/" class=proflink>1888</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/436/000069229/" class=proflink>Brooklyn, NY</a> Died: <a href="/lists/239/000106918/" class=proflink>18-Dec</a>-<a href="/lists/449/000106131/" class=proflink>1939</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/726/000069519/" class=proflink>Stamford, CT</a> Cause of death: <a href="/lists/323/000069116/" class=proflink>Pneumonia</a> Remains: Buried, <a href="/cemetery/657/000208033/" class="proflink">Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY</a> Gender: Male Religion: <a href="/lists/758/000094476/" class=proflink>Roman Catholic</a> Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: <a href="/lists/180/000068973/" class=proflink>Journalist</a>Nationality: United States Executive summary: Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30sRabble-rousing reporter and columnist Heywood Broun covered World War I as a foreign correspondent in France, then became famous as a columnist for the New York World, writing frequently about the injustice of racism and censorship, and in support of Americans persecuted for their views from <a href="/people/896/000031803/">Margaret Sanger</a> to <a href="/people/502/000118148/">John T. Scopes</a>. He ran for Congress on the Socialist ticket in 1930, unsuccessfully, and was expelled from the party in 1933 for speaking at a Communist Party rally. He founded the Newspaper Guild and served as that press union's first president. Broun was briefly engaged to ballerina Lydia Lopokova, who later married economist <a href="/people/248/000024176/">John Maynard Keynes</a>. His wife, Ruth Hale, was America's first widely-read female movie critic, made headlines for her refusal to adopt her husband's last name, and served as first president of the feminist <a href="/people/388/000160905/">Lucy Stone</a> League, of which Broun was also a member. They were divorced in 1933 but continued living together until her death. His second wife, Connie Madison, had previously been married to vaudeville and silent screen star Johnny Dooley. His son, Heywood Hale Broun, became a well-known sportscaster and actor.Father: Heywood Cox Broun (printer, later stockbroker, b. circa 1850, d. 1930) Mother: Henriette Brosé Broun Girlfriend: Lydia Lopokova (Russian dancer, b. 1892, dated 1915-16, d. 1981) Wife: <a href="/people/754/000167253/">Ruth Hale</a> (feminist, b. 1887, m. 6-Jun-1917, div. 17-Nov-1933, d. 18-Sep-1934) Son: Heywood Hale Broun (sportscaster, b. 10-Mar-1918, d. 5-Sep-2001) Wife: Constantina Maria Incoronata Fruscella Dooley Broun ("Connie Madison", actress, m. 9-Jan-1935) Daughter: Patricia Dooley Broun (stepdaughter)     High School: <a href="/edu/270/000120907/">Horace Mann School (1907)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/473/000068269/">Harvard University (attended, 1907-10)</a>     <a href="/media/878/000044746/">The New Republic</a> Columnist (1937-39)     <a href="/media/655/000048511/">The Nation</a> Columnist (1928-37)     <a href="/media/544/000050394/">The New York World</a> Columnist (1921-28)     <a href="/media/661/000114319/">The New York Tribune</a> Foreign Correspondent, Drama Critic (1912-21)     <a href="/media/154/000162665/">The New York Morning Telegraph</a> Reporter, Sportswriter (1908-12)     <a href="/org/448/000041325/">American Civil Liberties Union</a>     <a href="/org/362/000162873/">Dutch Treat Club</a>     <a href="/org/813/000041690/">NAACP</a>     Newspaper Guild Founder and President (1933-39)     <a href="/group/407/000073188/">Algonquin Round Table</a>     <a href="/event/930/000084678/">Converted to Catholicism</a> 1939     <a href="/lists/516/000044384/">English Ancestry</a> Paternal     <a href="/lists/644/000044512/">German Ancestry</a> Maternal     <a href="/lists/223/000044091/">Scottish Ancestry</a> Paternal     Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/779/000064587/">Obesity</a> Author of books: Our Army at the Front (<tt>1918</tt>) Seeing Things at Night (<tt>1921</tt>) Pieces of Hate and Other Enthusiasms (<tt>1922</tt>) The Boy Grew Older (<tt>1922</tt>, novel) The Sun Field (<tt>1923</tt>, novel) Gandle Follows His Nose (<tt>1926</tt>) Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord (<tt>1927</tt>, with Margaret Leech) Christians Only: A Study in Prejudice (<tt>1931</tt>) It Seems to Me, 1925-1935 (<tt>1935</tt>, collected newspaper columns) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=167010"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=167010">Heywood Broun</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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