Emily Langer

The Washington Post

Alicia Shepard, media writer and Watergate biographer, dies at 69

By: Emily Langer

The former NPR ombudsman wrote a book about Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and once chronicled her adventures sailing across the South Pacific.

The Washington Post

Rachel Pollack, writer of fantasy, tarot and trailblazing comics, dies at 77

By: Emily Langer

She drew on her experience as a transgender woman to create the first transgender superheroine for DC Comics.

The Washington Post

Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, doyenne of bridal couture, dies at 99

By: Emily Langer

Legions of brides-to-be converged on Kleinfeld’s, her Brooklyn wedding dress emporium, for their turn at a nuptial rite of passage.

The Washington Post

Carolyn Bryant, elusive accuser in the lynching of Emmett Till, dies at 88

By: Emily Langer

The wife of one of Till’s confessed killers, she was a central figure in the 1955 murder that stunned the nation and helped spur the civil rights movement.

The Washington Post

Harold Kushner, rabbi whose books brought solace to millions, dies at 88

By: Emily Langer

His book “When Bad Things Happen to Good People," written after the death of his teenage son, has sold millions of copies over nearly 50 years.

The Washington Post

Sylvia Bacon, longtime D.C. Superior Court judge, dies at 91

By: Emily Langer

Early in her legal career, she rose to become the highest-ranking woman in any U.S. attorney’s office.

The Washington Post

Stanton Samenow, psychologist who studied ‘criminal personality,’ dies at 81

By: Emily Langer

His findings challenged prevailing views of criminal behavior — and reached perhaps their largest audience on “The Sopranos."

The Independent

Grace Bumbry: Singer who broke opera’s colour barrier

By: Emily Langer

The singer became one of the first African Americans to conquer the international opera stage

The Washington Post

Timothy Keller, evangelical minister with national flock, dies at 72

By: Emily Langer

He cultivated a national following with a theology that separated faith from party politics and centered conservative Christianity in the hubbub of modern life.

The Washington Post

Marta Wise, child survivor of Auschwitz, dies at 88

By: Emily Langer

She turned 10 years old the day of her arrest and was subjected to the medical experiments of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.