I'd never heard of him before this morning, when Jon Carrol featured him in today's column. Thought you copy edit types might find it interesting, esp. Gaz...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/03/DD8B11IPDG.DTL
indeed, I was gonna post it yesterday (I came of age reading New York magazine), but figured no one else here would know his name
I'd never heard of him before yesterday - Tom Wolfe wrote his obit for Time.
I recognized his name, but wouldn't have been able to tell you who he was.
I remember reading a piece on him and the Chron's own Phil Bronstein (I think) in
Rolling Stone back in the 70s. Can't remember much more than that though.