Hamburger, Philip

▪ 2005

      American writer (b. July 2, 1914, Wheeling. W.Va.—d. April 23, 2004, New York, N.Y.), worked under all five editors of The New Yorker magazine beginning in 1939. Hamburger, who was a reporter-at-large, wrote about all manner of subjects and people in pieces that included U.S. city portraits, coverage of the political realm, presidential and other profiles, and reflections on New York itself (as Our Man Stanley in Talk of the Town). He produced several compilations of his New Yorker writings, notably Friends Talking in the Night: Sixty Years of Writing for The New Yorker (1999) and Matters of State (2000).

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