Vincent Sheean

James Vincent Sheean (December 5, 1899, Pana, Illinois – March 16, 1975,[1] Arolo, Frz.

Sheean's most famous work was Personal History (New York: Doubleday, 1935[2]).

Sheean served as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune during the Spanish Civil War.

[5] Sheean wrote the narration for the feature-length documentary Crisis (1939) directed by Alexander Hammid and Herbert Kline.

He studied at the University of Chicago, becoming part of a literary circle which included Glenway Wescott, Yvor Winters, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Janet Lewis while he was there.