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An artisan of the aphorism as well as a luminous book reviewer and obituarist, he is a considerably more complicated thinker than the tweedy, bow-tied conservative persona he tends to project on TV.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021

His friend Dr. Eric Schneider, to whom it is dedicated, told his obituarist, Paul Vitello, that the book “helped him remember who he was.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2019

He also was The Times’ chief obituary writer from 2000 to 2006, and then a freelance obituarist until his retirement in 2014.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2018

Such premature publication is the nightmare of every newspaper obituarist.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2016

Said the obituarist: 'Those two wonderful creatures who played so large a part in Simon Fuge's life.'

From The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold