RICHARD MERYMAN

I had just heard of Richard Meryman's and am sad indeed, I met Richard in the late 1990's and found him highly erudite funny and warm, Richard had a gift for intimacy and I don't mean the type of intimacy that a journalist can feign as a ploy to get their subjects to spill the beans, but an authentic intimacy , truly listening, hearing and responding on a real human level, he didn't flatter stars..he wanted the truth and this is what made him a great journalist and biographer.