Raymond Walters Jr. *35

Raymond Walters Jr. was 91 when he died Aug. 30, 2003, in Columbus, Ohio.

A retired editor for the NY Times Book Review, Walters was known for his "Paperback Talk" column, which ran weekly in the Times throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. In that column Walters chronicled the paperback book revolution that altered American publishing and American popular culture. A compilation of these columns, Paperback Talk, appeared in 1985.

Walters, who did postgraduate work in history at Princeton and took a doctorate in that field at Columbia, also wrote biographies of two American statesmen.

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