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(1941-2018) Journalist. Les Payne was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for Newsday.

Full Name

Les Payne

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Payne taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

1941

BIRTH

Leslie Payne was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on July 12, 1941.

1975

LITWORK

The Heroin Trail
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
0030138418 / 978-0030138416
Mr. Payne was part of a team of Newsday editors who authored "The Heroin Trail."

1976

LITWORK

The Life and Death of the SLA
Ballantine Books
034525449X / 978-0345254498
Nonfiction written with Tim Findley and Carolyn Craven.

2018

DEATH

Les Payne died in Manhattan, New York, on March 19, 2018.

2018

RESIDENCE

Mr. Payne lived in Harlem, Manhattan, New York.

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