I was saddened, this week, to learn of the death of writer Thomas A. DeLong. He passed away July 12th, at 75.
I enjoyed reading Mr. DeLong’s work, over time—which included such books as Radio Stars (subtitled An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960), published in 1996 by McFarland & Company, and Quiz Craze—America’s Infatuation with Game Shows (Praeger, 1991). I had the pleasure of speaking with him, by phone, several months ago.
Mr. DeLong lived in both Florida, and Connecticut. Here is an obituary, from the Westport, Connecticut on-line publication WestportNow:
Here, too, is a amazon.com page which lists four of the ten books Mr. DeLong published during his writing career.
