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Herb Caen

Herbert Eugene Caen (/keɪn/; April 3, 1916 – February 1, 1997) 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"[1]—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years (excepting a relatively brief defection to The San Francisco Examiner) and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

For the professional ice hockey player, see Herb Cain.

Herb Caen

Herbert Eugene Caen

(1916-04-03)April 3, 1916
Sacramento, California, U.S.

February 1, 1997(1997-02-01) (aged 80)

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Columnist

"The secret of Caen's success", wrote the editor of a rival publication, was:


A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco.[2]

The San Francisco Book, Photographs by , Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston/The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1948.

Max Yavno

Baghdad by the Bay, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949.

Baghdad: 1951, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., 1950.

Don't Call It Frisco, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1953.

Herb Caen's Guide to San Francisco, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1957.

Only in San Francisco, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., 1960.

San Francisco: City on Golden Hills, illustrated by , Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1967.

Dong Kingman

The Cable Car and the Dragon, illustrated by Barbara Ninde Byfield. Doubleday (1972), reprinted by (1986) (children's picture book)

Chronicle Books

’’One Man’s San Francisco’’, Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City, New York, 1976.

Above San Francisco, with Robert Cameron. Aerial photographs of historic and contemporary San Francisco, with text by Caen. (1986)

Morse, Rob (June 25, 1986). . The San Francisco Examiner. p. 35

"No Comparison"

Chronology

Herb Caen's first column

Collection of Caen's columns

at Library of Congress, with 19 library catalog records (under 'Caen, Herb, 1916-' without '1997')

Herb Caen

Nuts, crooks and judges enliven SF Jewish who's who

. The Pulitzer Prizes. Reprints of four tributes to Caen published April 10, 1996

"The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Special Awards and Citations. Works."