Herb Caen

Herbert Eugene Caen (; April 3, 1916 - February 1, 1997) was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes—"A continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' for almost sixty years (excepting a relatively brief defection to ''The San Francisco Examiner'') and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

"The secret of Caen's success", wrote the editor of a rival publication, was:

A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco. Provided by Wikipedia