Jim Dwyer is an American journalist who is a reporter and columnist with The New York Times, and the author or co-author of five non-fiction books. A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News before joining the Times. He graduated from the Loyola School, earned a bachelor's degree in general science from Fordham University in 1979 and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1980. He appeared in the 2012 documentary film Central Park Five and was portrayed on stage in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy. He also developed a 135 kW cogeneration plant and a 50.54 kW photovoltaic solar panel system for his cooperative apartment building in Manhattan. [More at Wikipedia]

March 4th, 1957 in New York City  /  Died:   Oct 8th, 2020 - lung cancer - aged 63