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Vincent Sheean (5 December 1899, Pana, Illinois - 16 March 1975 Vincent Sheean Dies; Author, Traveler, Arolo, Frz. of Leggiuno, Italy), born James Vincent Sheean, American journalist and novelist, most famous for Personal History (New York: Doubleday, 1935). The book, a political memoir, was bought by film producer Walter Wanger, and became the basis for Wanger's production Foreign Correspondent (1940) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Sheean served as a reporter for the Herald Tribune during the Spanish Civil War.

Sheean wrote the narration for the feature-length documentary Crisis (1939) directed by Alexander Hammid and Herbert Kline. He translated Eve Curie's biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1939), into English. Sheean wrote Oscar Hammerstein I: Life and Exploits of an Impresario (1955) as well as a controversial biography of Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy and Red (1963).

Vincent and Dinah Sheean were friends of Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband Eugen; they spent time together on Ragged Island off the coast of Maine during the summer of 1945.

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