Dave Bry | |
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Born |
Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S. | December 18, 1970
Died | October 15, 2017 | (aged 46)
Education | Red Bank Regional High School |
Alma mater | Connecticut College |
Occupation(s) | Editor, author, music journalist |
Notable work | Public Apology |
Spouse |
Emily Raimes (
m. 2001) |
Children | 1 |
Dave Bry (December 18, 1970 [1] – October 15, 2017) [2] was an American writer, music journalist, and editor. He served as editor of Vibe, Spin, and XXL and was a columnist for The Awl. [3] He also authored a non-fiction book, Public Apology: In Which a Man Grapples with a Lifetime of Regret, One Incident at a Time ( Grand Central, 2013).
Bry was born in 1970 in Red Bank, New Jersey and raised in nearby Little Silver. His father was a psychologist and his mother was a faculty member at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. [1] Bry attended Red Bank Regional High School [4] then Connecticut College, [5] [6] where one of his freshman roommates was Sean Spicer. [7]
Begun in 2009 as a column for The Awl, [8] Public Apology is an epistolary memoir in which Bry recounted his life via letters of apology for what Nathan Deuel described in Bookforum as "misdeeds great and small"; Deuel praised the book's "slyly understated style," saying "Bry’s restraint lends his prose its own brand of keenness and charisma." [9] [10] [11]
In Rolling Stone, Patrick Doyle described the book as "a window into growing up in the late Eighties, when John Hughes films and Def Leppard ruled the world." [6]
Bry died of cancer on October 15, 2017,[ where?] at the age of 46. [3]