Seymour Krim

He was widely regarded as part of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s; in 1965 he joined the New York Herald Tribune′s staff, which included Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe and Dick Schaap.

Krim's own dazzling style of writing was shaped by a Greenwich Village neighbor, Milt Klonsky, who "had gone to Brooklyn College, read everything, and was at home in abstract thought.

"[2] Krim taught writing seminars at a number of universities in the United States and abroad, including Mexico and Israel.

After suffering from a number of physical setbacks, including a debilitating heart attack, Krim committed suicide in his one-room apartment on East 10th Street by an overdose of barbiturates on August 30, 1989.

[1] Phillip Lopate published Krim's "For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business" in his 1997 anthology The Art of the Personal Essay.