Born: 1-Apr-1901
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Died: 9-Jul-1961
Location of death: Westminster, MD
Cause of death: Heart Failure

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Accuser of Alger Hiss

Father: Jay Chambers (artist/illustrator)
Brother: (d. suicide)
Wife: Esther Shemitz (until his death, one son, one daughter)

    University: Columbia University (expelled 1922)

    Time
    National Review Senior Editor (1957-59)
    Communist Party USA 1925-
    Presidential Medal of Freedom 1984
    Heart Attack (seven times, the last fatal)

Is the subject of books:
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, 1997, BY: Sam Tanenhaus

Author of books:
Witness (1952, memoir)
Cold Friday (1964, posthumous, with Duncan Norton Taylor)

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