Herb Caen

American newspaper columnist · United States · On the map · Journalists · Lived 1916 to 1997 · aged 80

Herbert Eugene Caen was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes - "A continuous love letter to San Francisco" - appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Herb Caen is read about 74 times a day, in 9 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 25 June 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

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