Malcolm Wilde Browne (April 17, 1931 – August 27, 2012) was an American journalist and photographer, best known for his award-winning photograph of the self-immolation of Buddhist monkThích Quảng Đức in 1963.[2]
Browne worked for ABC TV for about a year but became dissatisfied with television journalism,[1] and worked freelance for several years. He did a year's fellowship at Columbia University with the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1968, he joined The New York Times, becoming its correspondent for South America in 1972. Having worked as a chemist prior to becoming a journalist,[4] in 1977 Browne became a science writer, serving as a senior editor for Discover. He returned to the Times in 1985 and went on to cover the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
Family and personal life
Malcolm Browne was a distant relative of the Irish writer Oscar Wilde; his grandfather was the writer's cousin. His mother professed pacifist views and belonged to the Quaker community, his father worked as an architect and practiced Catholicism.[9]
The correspondent was married three times, meeting his third wife in 1961 while she was working for the Saigon government's Ministry of Information. The couple married five years later and had two children.[9]
Browne's photo of Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation, during which he remained perfectly still. "I just kept shooting and shooting and shooting and that protected me from the horror of the thing."
^ abc"Malcolm Brown death". AP. August 27, 2012. Archived from the original on August 28, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2012. Malcolm Wilde Browne was born in New York on April 17, 1931. He graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania with a degree in chemistry. Working in a lab when drafted in 1956, he was sent to Korea as a tank driver, but by chance got a job writing for a military newspaper, and from that came a decision to trade science for a career in journalism.
