Ed, an award-winning journalist, author, and a professor at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism for more than 30 years, died of cancer Nov. 8, 2014, at home in Tempe.
Born in Hackensack, N.J., he majored in philosophy and ate at Dial. After graduation he worked at the Times of Trenton, then served two years as an information specialist for the Army’s 24th Infantry Division in Augsburg, Germany, writing for the Stars and Stripes.
After discharge, Ed moved to Paris, working as a freelancer for New Jersey’s Bergen County Record and covering the Paris peace talks and student protests of 1968. Returning to the United States that fall, he wrote for the Paterson (N.J.) Morning Call and studied creative writing, earning a master’s degree from City College of New York.
Ed’s first Pulitzer Prize nomination came in 1977 at the Arizona Daily Star. He began teaching at ASU in 1980 and wrote two books, The Gene Age (with roommate Lynn Klotz ’65) and Target: Cancer, which were nominated in later years.
Ed is survived by his wife of 45 years, Ginny; son Daniel; daughter Katie ’01 and her husband Anthony ’01; and three grandchildren. The class regrets the untimely loss of this distinguished scholar and teacher.