Carlos P. Romulo (January 14, 1898-December 15, 1985) is well known for a career that spanned about 50 years in public service as educator, soldier, university president, journalist and diplomat. He was the only Asian to win the United States' prestigious Pulitzer Prize in journalism for a series of articles predicting the outbreak of World War II. Romulo wrote and published 18 books, including The United (novel), I Walked with Heroes (autobiography), I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, Mother America, and I See the Philippines Rise (war-time memoirs). He was declared National Artist in 1982. (Agung, March-June 2015)