William L. Shirer

William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 ? December 28, 1993) was an American journalist and historian and was one of the most famous journalists in the world. Shirer became known for his broadcasts on CBS from the German capital of Berlin during the Third Reich through the first year of World War II.

Fictionalized versions of Shirer

• In the 1982 movie Gandhi the composite American Journalist character played by Martin Sheen is said to largely represent Shirer.
• William Dreiser, the American reporter that appears in the first part of S. M. Stirling's alternate-history WWII novel Marching Through Georgia (1988), is clearly based on Shirer.