Herb Caen
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican newspaper columnist
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...
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![This San Francisco skyline (featuring a "flaccid" Transamerica Pyramid) headed Caen's columns from 1976 until his death.[3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/48/Herb_Caen_column_header_with_Transamerica_Pyramid.gif/330px-Herb_Caen_column_header_with_Transamerica_Pyramid.gif)
This San Francisco skyline (featuring a "flaccid" Transamerica Pyramid) headed Caen's columns from 1976 until his death.[3]
Caen playing the drums at the 1993 celebration of The Paris Review's 40th anniversary
"Mr. San Francisco" in his Chronicle office in the early 1990s
One of Caen's four "Loyal Royals" on display at the Chronicle officesAwards 1
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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.
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