New York editor Clay Felker, 82
Posted: Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 2:12 pmOctober 2, 1925 - July 1, 2008
Clay Felker was a pioneering editor whose New York magazine became a template for what became known as the “new journalism” adopted by urban weeklies in America. A sometimes bitchy but always stylish glossy that included Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin and Gloria Steinem in its stable of writers, New York reported on the mixture of ambition, money, culture and fashion that obsessed the city then and now. …
New York had begun life as a supplement to the New York Herald Tribune newspaper. Felker and the graphic designer Milton Glaser reintroduced it as a separate publication in 1968 several years after the closure of its parent paper. …
In 1984 he married his third wife, the journalist Gail Sheehy, author of Passages and other well-received books. … Read full obituary
