John Barkham (1908 – April 15, 1998) was a South African-born American syndicated writer (book reviewer) for Time, New York Times Book Review, New York World-Telegram, and New York Post who published several thousand book reviews in over half a century of work (as many as five per week).
Around August 1944, when Whittaker Chambers became Foreign News editor at Time, the magazine brought him to New York.
Chambers considered Barkham (and Marjorie Smith, researcher) his right and left hands in Foreign News.
[1] He served for 20 years as a Pulitzer Prize juror (fiction, nonfiction, biography).
[1][2] Barkham married Margot Buirski; they had a son, Graham and a daughter, Jennifer.