Whittaker Chambers worked as a journalist at the Daily Worker and New Masses, an editor and senior editor at TIME magazine, before reaching international celebrity as a star witness in the Alger Hiss espionage trial. He later worked as a founding editor of National Review, and post-humously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Best known as the author of best-selling memoir Witness (1952), and translator of over 18 books from German and French into English, including Bambi, which was adapted into a Disney animated movie in 1942.
Chambers briefly rented an apartment here in 1935 owned and previously occupied by Hiss and his family.
The Homes
2831 28th St NW, Apt. 42, Washington, DC
Whittaker Chambers
2831 28th St NW
Located in Woodley Park neighborhood, Northwest- West of Rock Creek