Obituary.

The writer describes how the death of writer Martyn Harris from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma at the age of 43 constitutes the loss of a funny, appealing, gifted, and honest friend. Harris was a feature writer for Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper. He had also written for the Spectator and the New Stat...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:New Statesman Vol. 125; pp. 27 - 28
Main Author: French, Sean
Format: Obituary
Published: New Statesman Ltd. October 11 1996
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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Summary:The writer describes how the death of writer Martyn Harris from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma at the age of 43 constitutes the loss of a funny, appealing, gifted, and honest friend. Harris was a feature writer for Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper. He had also written for the Spectator and the New Statesman. His skill as an interviewer, as a roving reporter, and as a prose writer was appreciated by his various Telegraph editors. His writing during his illness and about his illness was even sharper, funnier, and more rational than before, revealing that, as a writer, he had hardly begun.