Richard Sandomir

Drue Heinz -- nee Doreen Mary English -- married into the Heinz foods empire and became a literary philanthropist. Among her gifts was turning her castle in Scotland into a literary retreat.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/obituaries/drue-heinz-a-philanthropist-of-literature-dies-at-103.html …

Yet another terrific story about the Yankees by @billywitzhttps://nyti.ms/2GpwnX3 

Remember the "Billy Jack" films with Tom Laughlin? Then you should know about his wife, Delores Taylor, who co-starred and co-wrote those movies.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/obituaries/delores-taylor-85-dies-writer-and-star-in-billy-jack-films.html …

Philip Kerr's crime novels about the Nazi-era detective Bernie Gunther are among the best in the genre and will put you in mind of Chandler's Marlowe. Kerr has died and left behind one last Gunther novelhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/obituaries/philip-kerr-62-author-of-gunther-crime-novels-is-dead.html …

And of course, if you're looking to buy a copy of my book (hardcover or paperback) about the making of "The Pride of the Yankees," follow the linkhttps://www.amazon.com/Pride-Yankees-Gehrig-Cooper-Classic/dp/0316355054 …

With paperback version of my book about "The Pride of the Yankees" coming out in three weeks, a look back at an adapted excerpt from Vanity Fair.https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/08/pride-of-the-yankees-movie-premiere-lou-gehrig-75-years …

You may not have heard of composer, scholar and musician Olly Wilson, but you should have. He was pretty amazing and when he was a teenager playing in a band with his friends, backed Chuck Berryhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/obituaries/olly-wilson-80-dies-composer-meshed-african-and-western-music.html …

Julie Yip-Williams's life was one of struggle and courage; her blog that chronicled her fight against Stage IV cancer is stunning reading. No surprise it will be the basis of her upcoming posthumous memoir .https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/obituaries/julie-yip-williams-dies-writer-of-candid-blog-on-cancer-dies-at-42.html …

ICYMI: My obit of Army medic Anthony Acevedo who bravely kept a diary of fellow POW deaths and Nazi atrocities while imprisoned in a slave labor camp.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/anthony-acevedo-who-documented-his-holocaust-ordeal-dies-at-93.html …

My obit of Nokie Edwards, lead guitarist of the Ventures, the surf-rock band whose songs include "Walk--Don't Run" and "Hawaii Five-O." As Nokie lay dying his wife played a version of "I"ll See You in My Dreams" that he performed with Thom Bresh.http://nyti.ms/2IAEWM5 

Terrific story on baseball concussions by @billywitzhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/sports/baseball/yankees-clint-frazier-concussion.html …

The great@jamesmiller gets the story on John Skipper's cocaine addiction and why he left ESPN. Amazing Q&A in @THRhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/john-skipper-details-his-espn-exit-a-cocaine-extortion-plot-1094657 …

From meteorites (in Antarctica and Connecticut) to lunar rocks (from Apollo and Luna missions), Ursula Marvin was a giant of planetary geology.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/obituaries/ursula-marvin-geologist-of-the-extraterrestrial-dies-at-96.html …

ICYMI: My obituary of the fascinating poet Lucie Brock-Broido, whose work is inventive and riveting.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/obituaries/lucie-brock-broido-inventive-poet-is-dead-at-61.html …