Born in Richmond, VA, Edward P. Chamberlayne, Jr., learned French in Paris while his father was news editor of the French edition of the New York Herald Tribune. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Virginia in 1960. After two years with Agence France-Presse and a summer with the Associated Press, he joined United Press International. He covered first the White House and then the U.S. Congress and American politics and retired in 1999. He was a subject of Boys on the Bus, an account of press coverage of the 1972 U.S. presidential campaign. He died at his home in Calmes Neck, VA, of a heart attack.
(ex-Unipresser website): Pye Chamberlayne, UPI Radio's veteran Senate and political reporter, on floor of 1984 Democratic Convention in San Francisco
(ex-Unipresser website): UPI Audio 1982 election night staff in Washington bureau. Left-to-right: Bill Small, Pye Chamberlayne, Bob Hoenig, Rob Navias and Tom Foty
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