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Herbert Warren Wind
American sportswriter
Herbert Warren Wind (August 11, 1916 – May 30, 2005) was an American sportswriter noted for his writings on golf.[1]
Early years
Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, Wind began golf at age seven at the Thorny Lea Golf Club in Brockton, and played whenever he could.
He graduated from Yale University, where he contributed to campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[2] He earned a master's degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge.
Herbert Warren Wind (–) was a longtime staff writer at the New Yorker and a writer and editor for Sports Illustrated.
At Cambridge, Wind became friends with the noted British golf writer Bernard Darwin, a grandson of evolutionist Charles Darwin.
Wind was a low handicapper who played golf well enough to compete in the 1950 British Amateur Championship, and maintained a lifelong interest in the sport.
Life and career
Wind began writing for The New Yorker in 1941, covered golf and sometimes other sports for that weekly magazine from 1947 until 1953, and again from 1960 until his re