Don Swaim (born 1936 in Kansas) is an American journalist and broadcaster. Swaim earned a degree in broadcast journalism from Ohio University and worked as editor, writer, producer, reporter, and anchor at WCBS (AM) in New York and CBS in Baltimore.

His radio program on books and authors, "Book Beat," was nationally syndicated by the CBS Radio Stations News Service. On that program, he interviewed hundreds of major authors of the 1980's, including several Pulitzer Prize winners.

Swaim currently resides in Pennsylvania.

Book

• The H.L. Mencken Murder Case (1988) ISBN 0312022174

External links

• Author Interviews by Don Swaim at Wired for Books
• Book Beat: The Podcast
• WCBS Newsradio88 Appreciation Site
• The Ambrose Bierce Site

American journalists | American radio personalities | People from Kansas | 1936 births | Living people