“R” is for Robertson, Benjamin Franklin (1903-1943). Journalist. After graduating from Clemson, Robertson attended the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. After working for newspapers in Hawaii and Australia, in 1929 he became a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. After covering the New Deal in Washington for the Associated Press he returned to Pickens County to write a novel. It was not a success. In 1940 he was hired by the newspaper P.M. as its London correspondent during the battle of Britain. In early 1941 he published I Saw England – a well-received account that reached a wide audience. Returning to Clemson in 1941, Benjamin Franklin Robertson began work on Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory, a celebration of Scots Irish folkways and the agrarian lifestyle—the work for which he is best remembered.
“R” is for Robertson, Benjamin Franklin (1903-1943)
