Eugene Burns

Eugene Burns was an American author and war correspondent (b. Eugene Burnstein in Estonia). He died on July 15, 1958, at the age of 52, during a street mob revolt in Baghdad, Iraq.^[1]

Burns was born in Moscow. Before working in Iraq, Burns lived in Sausalito, California.^[1] Burns was married to Olga Burns.^[1] They had twin daughters, Carol Eugenia Burns and Stephanie Olga Burns, born in 1944.

He started out his career as a newsman and later worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press in the Soviet Union, China, and Pacific during World War II.^[2] He also wrote books on animals and fishing, and was the author of the column, "Is That So?", which covered wildlife.^[1]

• The Last King of Paradise (Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1952)
• Then There Was One: The U.S.S. Enterprise and the first year of war (1944)

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