Hi Bogdan!
Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 – November 30, 1990) was a prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate.
Cousins was born in Union City, New Jersey. At age 11, he was misdiagnosed with tuberculosis and placed in a sanatorium. Despite this, he was an athletic youth [1], and he claimed that as a young boy, he had “set out to discover exuberance.”
After graduating from Union Hill High School, he received a Bachelor’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City.
He joined the staff of the New York Evening Post (Now the New York Post) in 1934, and in 1935, he was hired by Current History as a book critic. He would later ascend to the position of managing editor. He would also befriend the staff of the Saturday Review of Literature (later renamed Saturday Review), which had its offices in the same building. He would later join the staff of that publication as well by 1940. He was named editor-in-chief in 1942, a position he would hold until 1972. Under his direction, circulation of the publication would increase from 20,000 to 650,000.