ObituariesIn Remembrance: Harvey Shapiro ’45 Died on January 7 2013“Harvey Shapiro, an admired American poet who chose newspaper work over the time-honored academic vocation of his peers, and who as an editor at the New York Times made an epochal assignment—what became the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 'Letter From Birmingham Jail'—that ultimately never appeared in the newspaper, died on January 7, 2013, in Manhattan. He was 88." Read the entire New York Times obituary. |
|