Parker won two World Series and hit 339 home runs while playing for six teams. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in December ...

Ida B. Wells was a pioneering investigative journalist who took on racism in the Deep South with powerful reporting on lynchings, but when she died she did not get an obituary in The New York ...

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William McDonald, obituary editor. Here, William McDonald explains the process of a Times obituary: We start with a paper-thin fraction of the total — the deaths we happen to hear about, ...

Ms. McMasters is the author of “The Leaving Season: A Memoir.” I wrote my obituary last week. I often do so once a year; it has become a kind of ritual. I’ve met a few others who do the same ...

ECCENTRIC LIVES: The Daily Telegraph Book of 21st Century Obituaries, edited by Andrew M. Brown It used to be that, when you died, what you wanted was an obituary in a good newspaper, not that you ...

And yet if you perused many of the obituaries over the last year, particularly about the more towering figures who left us, you might be forgiven for thinking that people, on the whole, must be ...

Within a day of the death of Matthew Sachman, 19, on New York City subway tracks, so-called obituary pirates had flooded search results with false information.

The byline of Robert D. McFadden, who retired on Sunday, has been one of the most distinguished in the history of The Times. Here is a sampler of his artful obituaries.

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.

Do you know of someone who died recently who might be a candidate for a Times obituary? Tell us. By William McDonald Every day, editors on The New York Times Obituaries team scan news reports and ...