Paul Edward Gray

Paul Gray died in his sleep at his home in West Windsor, NJ on Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Paul Edward Gray was born in Joliet, Illinois in 1940. His father, Donald J. Gray, was a purchasing agent for the Chicago Tribune. He attended the University of Mississippi as an undergraduate and earned his PhD at the University of Virginia in 1964. Paul went on to teach at Princeton University. While there, he published a humorous piece in The New Yorker Magazine. He left Princeton in 1973 and began writing the press section at Time Magazine. He wrote book reviews there for 25 years and many cover stories on a variety of topics. After his retirement in 2001, he contributed to The New Leader and The New York Times. A committed journalist for most of his life, Paul began his career at age 14 as a disk jockey at a radio station in Laurel, Mississippi, and soon graduated to The Laurel Leader-Call where he wrote obituaries and covered drag races.
Paul is survived by his wife Betsy, two children, Margaret Gray of Los Angeles, California; David Gray of Wilmington, North Carolina; and four grandchildren. He is also survived by his mother, Erma Gray of Jackson, Mississippi, brothers Brian Gray of Fair Oaks, California, Bruce Gray of Jackson, Douglas Gray of Columbus, Ohio, and a sister, Martha Lovett of Phoenix, Arizona.