Terrence Norman Hill

New York - Terrence N Hill (1944-2025) was a genius - at life. A serious bon vivant, well-read and a great writer, world traveler, with wonderful friends and a fabulous wife Miranda, with whom he shared a lasting love. Terry died December 3rd, 2025, at home in Greenwich Village, after a courageous five-month battle with Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP).

A graduate of the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University Law School, Terry found a career that he loved in advertising, first in Detroit, then in Toronto, New York and then globally including Washington, D.C., London, and Paris.

Early in his career in Canada Terry named the original "Team Canada" for the legendary 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Series. His other suggestion, which was discarded at the time, was Dream Team.

After retiring early, Terry focused on writing for himself-poetry, plays, short stories, essays and eventually a series of "Two Guys..." books with his childhood friend, Steve Chandler.

Besides writing, Terry's passions were many: reading; virtually all sports but especially University of Michigan athletics, baseball and thoroughbred horse racing. He loved the analysis integral to wagering, a pursuit he learned going to the track, first with his father, the writer Art Hill. In fact, horse racing coaxed him out of retirement as his last full-time job was for The Saratoga Special, an on-track publication - as a 75-year-old intern and columnist.

In his retirement Terry and Miranda traveled extensively but returned every year to Toronto, Georgian Bay, and their house in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where Terry became a sought-after speaker at the San Miguel Writers Conference.

Terry will be greatly missed by his wife Miranda, sons Lincoln (Allison) and Andrew (Melissa) and his grandchildren Ethan & Cameron and Joseph & Sydney, respectively; his first wife Trudi; as well as brothers Tony (Anne) and Chato (Christina) Hill, in-laws Eunice Lee and Jeff Harris, many nieces, nephews, other relatives, plus a zillion good and loving friends.

Plans for a celebration of this genius at life to be announced.