Edgar Snow

Snow, Edgar (1905–72), U.S. journalist and author. The first Westerner to visit the Chinese Communists in their remote headquarters in Yanan (1936), he wrote a sympathetic account of their programs and idealism in Red Star over China (1937). A personal friend of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, he was one of the few U.S. citizens to visit China regularly after the 1949 revolution, about which he wrote The Other Side of the River (1962) and The Long Revolution (1972).