NATALIE BOBER Obituary

BOBER--Natalie. Award-winning biographer and historian Natalie S. Bober passed on December 29, 2022. Her 11 books have garnered starred reviews and have appeal across a range of ages. She served as a consultant for the Ken Burns PBS television documentary "Thomas Jefferson" and appeared as a talking head throughout the program. Her biography A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost was the 2008 Vermont Reads book of the year. Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution was the winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the Golden Kite Award of the SCBWI. Born in New York City, she married Lawrence Bober in 1950 and started a family that became the focus of her life. She raised her three children in Glen Cove, NY. She is survived by her children Stephen (married Patricia Lukens), Marc (married Susan Bober), and Betsy (married Paul Polivy), as well as 14 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

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Published by New York Times on Jan. 8, 2023.

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Richard Bober

July 21, 2023

I had a brief correspondence with Natalie after viewing the Ken Burns "Thomas Jefferson" documentary. I was amazed that a "Bober" was involved in something like that, and had to reach out as Bober is such an unusual surname - she was only the second Bober I had ever become acquainted with that I wasn't related to. We had a very nice conversation and exchanged a couple of emails discussing Bober genealogy. I am quite distressed at her passing - she was a wonderful conversation, and I would have really enjoyed having an opportunity to know her better. She seemed like quite a special lady, even though I only knew her from correspondence.

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