Lefkowitz, Bernard 1937-2004
LEFKOWITZ, Bernard 1937-2004
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born August 24, 1937, in New York, NY; died of thymus gland cancer, May 21, 2004, in New York, NY. Journalist, educator, and author. A former New York City reporter, Lefkowitz is best remembered for his true crime book Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb (1997). He earned a bachelor's degree from City College in 1959 before beginning his journalism career at the New York Post in 1961, where he later became assistant city editor. Leaving the newspaper in 1966 to work for the Peace Corps for two years, he next took up a freelancing career and also taught journalism at the City College of the City University of New York from 1970 to 1971. Lefkowitz's books focus on true crime or important social issues and include The Victims: The Wylie-Hoffert Murder Case and Its Strange Aftermath (1979), written with Kenneth G. Gross, Breaktime: Living without Work in a Nine-to-Five World (1979), and Tough Change: Growing Up on Your Own in America(1987). Lefkowitz, who also was a teacher at the New School for Social Research during the mid-1960s, earned an Edgar Award for The Victims.
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PERIODICALS
Chicago Tribune, May 24, 2004, section 1, p. 11.
New York Times, May 25, 2004, p. A25.