Chandler Brossard; Writer, Editor and Educator

Chandler Brossard, 71, writer, editor and educator who published 17 books of fiction and nonfiction. Born in Idaho Falls and raised in Washington, D.C., Brossard dropped out of school at 11 and educated himself by reading classic literature. He became a copy boy and later a reporter at the Washington Post, then served as a writer and editor at the New Yorker, Time and Look magazines. Brossard wrote his first novel, “Who Walks in Darkness,” in 1952. He collaborated with Vincent Price in editing “Eighteen Best Stories of Edgar Allen Poe” and edited a series of essays on sex and science titled “The Scene Before You: A New Approach to American Culture.” He taught or was writer in residence at the State University College at Old Westbury, N.Y., the University of Birmingham in England, the New School for Social Research in New York, Schiller College in Paris, UC Riverside and UC San Diego. On Sunday in New York of cancer.