ROBERT RORKE

RORKE--Robert G. Novelist and entertainment journalist Robert G. Rorke died peacefully in his home on August 12th, 2023. He was born on August 1st 1955, raised in Brooklyn and educated at NYU, Stanford, and at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Mr. Rorke's distinguished career in journalism spanned over thirty years, including editorial posts at Publisher's Weekly, TV Guide and, most recently at the New York Post, where for the better part of two decades Robert served as TV Editor and Columnist. During his career, Robert wrote features about important trends in the industry and regularly interviewed the most prominent artists in the medium. Those close to Robert knew that if you wanted to know the real, behind- the-scenes industry story, he was your go-to guy. In 2018, Robert's novel Car Trouble was published by Harper Perennial. The story of a young man coming of age in the 60s and 70s, Car Trouble's subject is also Robert's beloved Brooklyn. Alongside his great love of literature, art, theater, and travel, Robert perhaps loved nothing more than taking people on extended walking and bike tours of his city. In addition to those tours, he will be remembered for his intellect, generosity, kindness, and uproarious sense of humor. A beloved son, brother, uncle, cousin, and friend, Robert is survived by his mother Joan, sisters Eileen, Mary, Peggy and Marion, brothers-in-law Rick, John, and Keith and nieces and nephews Michael, Siobhan, Elise, Ian, Derek, Natalie, and Alana, and his many dozens of colleagues and friends in the writing community across the nation and around the world.