Michael Browning died of liver failure Saturday at Shands Hospital in Gainesville. He was 58 years old.
“Michael was one of a kind, an extraordinarily gifted writer,” said Palm Beach Post Editor John Bartosek. “You read anything under his byline because he had that rare ability to make anything and everything interesting. Writing from the Herodion outside Bethlehem, Florida’s Death Row or his mother’s deathbed, Michael was clever, funny, erudite, insightful and authoritative, all with an amazing vocabulary. We will miss him.”
He joined The Palm Beach Post in 1999. Mr. Browning began his career with The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville in 1975, but spent 20 years at The Miami Herald, nine of them in Asia, where he served as the newspaper’s Beijing bureau chief. As such, he traveled extensively in the Asia-Pacific region, reporting from India, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, Mongolia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sri Lanka and South Africa. He retained his passion for China all of his life.
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