Elaine Woo
Elaine Woo is a Los Angeles native who has written for her hometown paper since 1983. She covered public education and filled a variety of editing assignments before joining "the dead beat" – news obituaries – where she has produced artful pieces on celebrated local, national and international figures, including Norman Mailer, Julia Child and Rosa Parks. She left The Times in 2015.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who shook up American morality with an ideal of swinging singlehood, dies at 91
Hugh Hefner, the incurable playboy who built a publishing and entertainment empire on the idea that Americans should shed their puritanical hang-ups and enjoy sex, has died.
Lillian Ross, celebrated New Yorker writer, dies at 99
Lillian Ross, a celebrated New Yorker magazine writer who created classics of literary journalism has died at age 99
