Posted AT 2:33 AM EDT on 01/12/04
Pierre Berton, 84
Everybody called him Pierre.
Journalist, author, pundit, personality — for more than 50 years Pierre Berton dominated print and broadcast media in Canada. He wrote 50 books, an average of one a year since he published The Royal Family in 1954, an expanded compilation of his own newspaper and magazine articles.
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