Clay Felker
Remembrances from Gail Sheehy, Gay Talese, Milton Glaser, Tom Wolfe, Peter Kaplan and more
Photo courtesy of Gail Sheehy
Clay Felker: Made New York Into A Magazine
By John Koblin and Spencer MorganAfter Clay Felker passed away Tuesday morning in Manhattan, The Observer spoke to some who knew him well.
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Never Hold Your Best Stuff
By Peter KaplanWhen I think of Clay Felker, which is often, it’s at the Peacock Alley in the Waldorf Astoria. I had just come to The Observer in 1994 and I was scared and sweating. Clay offered to meet with me once a week and kick around story ideas. I used to bring a stack of napkins. They were, by the end of breakfast, black with scrawl: call David Garth, Milton Glaser, Mrs. Astor; water, Moynihan, women and money, Brooklyn as the new Paris, Columbia vs. N.Y.U., water mains, Murdoch, CBS News, power.
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Life Is What You Make It
By Gail SheehyJune 24, 2008
Dear Friends of Clay,
It is said that people die the way they live. Knowing Clay as you do, you will probably not be surprised by the story I want to share with you. In the past week, as he approaches the final deadline of his life, Clay’s life force returned with gusto.
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The Big Man
“The secret of a magazine is passion.”So said Clay Felker, a giant of journalism who died Tuesday morning in Manhattan at age 82. And the passion which most animated Clay was New York, the city he loved and understood so much that he founded a magazine by that name and mentored more than one generation of the city’s best writers.
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