On Sunday I received a note from his wife, Marijke. that my old friend Jerry Rosen had died on Friday, August 13.

He succumbed following a long battle with leukemia and had been in seclusion for a while now.

I will miss Jerry. Life without him will feel measurably more hollow.

It is some comfort that I can reread his books if I wish to hear his voice again. I will always be guided by him, the thought of how he would have reacted to the various things that happen in life. But no more pleasure in telling him about these eventualities in person!

A great friend.