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Gerald Nachman

Gerald Weil Nachman (January 13, 1938 – April 14, 2018) was an American journalist and author from San Francisco.[1]

This article is about Oakland-raised entertainment journalist. For Pittsburgh-raised police and politics journalist, see Jerry Nachman.

Gerald Nachman

Gerald Weil Nachman

(1938-01-13)January 13, 1938
Oakland, California, U.S.

April 14, 2018(2018-04-14) (aged 80)

San Francisco, California, U.S.

San Jose State University

Journalist, author

Mary Campbell McGeachy
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(m. 1966; div. 1979)​

1963 TV writer for the San Jose Mercury News.

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1963–1966 feature writer for the New York Post

1966–1971 theater and film writer for the Oakland Tribune

1972–1979 columnist, syndicated by the New York Daily News[6]

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1979–1993 entertainment and theater writer for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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1993–2015 panelist, Minds Over Matter, ; accessed April 18, 2018.[8][9]

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Death[edit]

Nachman died April 14, 2018, at Coventry Place, a senior residence in San Francisco, California, at the age of 80.[3]

ASCAP Deems Taylor Award

New York Newspaper Guild Page One Award

. Doubleday. 1978. ISBN 978-0385123419.

Playing House

. Doubleday. 1983. ISBN 978-0385123402.

Out on a whim: Some very close brushes with life

The Fragile Bachelor. . 1989. ISBN 978-0898152890.

Ten Speed Press

Raised on Radio. . 2000. ISBN 978-0520223035.

University of California Press

. New York: Pantheon Books. 2003. ISBN 978-0375410307.[10]

Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s

Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan's America. . 2009. ISBN 978-0520268012.

University of California Press

Quirks (1979)

Aftershocks (1993)

New Wrinkles (2002)

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Official website

Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine guest column in The San Francisco Examiner

Gerald Nachman