Speed Vogel, Author's Aide, Dies at 90
By BRUCE WEBER [New York Times]
Speed Vogel, whose care of an ailing friend, the novelist Joseph
Heller, became the fodder for a darkly comic best-selling chronicle of
a friend****p, "No Laughing Matter," died on Monday [April 14, 2008] at
his home in Sag Harbor, New York. He was 90.
He died in his sleep of natural causes, his wife, the writer Lou Ann
Walker, said.
Mr. Vogel had been in the textile business into his 50s, but he was
not a fanatic about it. He was also a sculptor with a studio in the
Chelsea section of Manhattan - he worked with found metal - and when
he retired from business, it was to hang around in rock clubs and take
eccentric jobs. He even worked for a time at Zabar's, the Manhattan
[New York] delicatessen, as a herring taster.
"It was a real job," Ms. Walker said. "He got paid for it."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/books/18vogel.html
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