IN MEMORIAM: MICHAEL KELLY

by Virginia Postrel  •  Apr 4, 2003 at 1:49 pm

http://www.dynamist.com/162/in-memoriam-michael-kelly

I'm terribly sad to read that Michael Kelly has been killed in Iraq.

I only met him once, when we were guests on C-SPAN's morning show, but I admired his work greatly. He was one of the best magazine editors, possibly the very best, of our generation, and a gifted and passionate writer. His book on the first Gulf War, which I read as dispatches in The New Republic, provided a gritty, sometimes wrenching, eyewitness account of that often-sanitized conflict. He will be missed.

Update: Here's what The Atlantic said. (Via InstaPundit.)