Herb Caen

Herbert Eugene Herb Caen was a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goingson and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotesa continuous love letter to San Franciscoappeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Caen was born April 3, 1916, in Sacramento, California, although he liked to point out that his parentspool hall operator Lucien Caen and Augusta Caenhad spent the summer nine months previous at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. After high school he covered sports for The Sacramento Union.

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