Elaine Woo
writer
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.
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Daniel Ellsberg, one of America’s most famous whistleblowers, leaked copies of the Pentagon Papers, which detailed the shameful history of the Vietnam War.
June 16, 2023
A lost soul in search of God, Linda Kasabian became the prosecution’s star witness against the Manson family.
Feb. 28, 2023
Didion bridged the world of Hollywood, journalism and literature in a career that arced most brilliantly in the realms of social criticism and memoir.
Dec. 23, 2021
Ferlinghetti was the co-founder of the legendary City Lights bookstore and a champion of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
Feb. 23, 2021
Joseph E. Lowery, civil rights leader who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 98.
March 28, 2020
Ram Dass died Sunday at his home in Maui, according to a post on his Instagram account.
Dec. 23, 2019
Harper’s Rhoda was everybody’s best friend in the 1970s, the gal pal many faithful fans of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” wished they had.
Aug. 30, 2019
Gloria Vanderbilt experienced both loss and triumph on a grand scale.
June 17, 2019
La lápida de mi padre tiene tres renglones con caracteres chinos, la mayoría de los cuales yo, como china nacida en Estados Unidos, no sé leer.
June 17, 2019
My father’s gravestone is lined on three sides with Chinese characters, most of which I, as an ABC (American-born Chinese), cannot read.
June 16, 2019