Roy Rowan

board_pastpres_rowanRoy Rowan died on Sept. 14, 2016 at the age of 96.

In 1977, Rowan left Time and became a senior writer for Fortune Magazine. Between then and his retirement in 1985, he wrote more than 65 major articles for the magazine, including an exclusive 15-page report on the “Top 50 Mafia Bosses in America.”

He “retired” in 1985 but continued to write two or three Fortune articles a year, as well as his second book, The Intuitive Manager in 1986. A Day in the Life of Italy, a project Rowan co-edited, was released in 1990. In the book, 100 photographers shooting at different locations around Italy, recorded in detail what happened over a 24-hour period on April 27, 1990. In January of that same year, Rowan spent two freezing weeks on the streets of New York City living as a homeless man for a 10-page eyewitness report in People. His bylined articles, besides those in Time, Life, and Fortune, have appeared in Smithsonian, the Atlantic Monthly (a 6,000-word report on his own battle with cancer), Reader’s Digest, and the New Republic.

For his complete biography, see his website.