Vincent Sheean (5 December 1899, Pana, Illinois - 16 March 1975[1], 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 New York Herald Tribune during the Spanish Civil War.[2]
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 Diana Forbes-Robertson 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.