Dave Bry

Dave Bry (December 18, 1970^[1] – October 15, 2017)^[2] was an American writer, music journalist, and editor. He served as editor of Vibe, Spin, and XXL and was a columnist for The Awl.^[3] He also authored a non-fiction book, Public Apology: In Which a Man Grapples with a Lifetime of Regret, One Incident at a Time (Grand Central, 2013).

Dave Bry
Born	(1970-12-18)December 18, 1970 Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	October 15, 2017(2017-10-15) (aged 46)
Education	Red Bank Regional High School
Alma mater	Connecticut College
Occupation(s)	Editor, author, music journalist
Notable work	Public Apology
Spouse	Emily Raimes ​ (m. 2001)​
Children	1

Early life

Bry was born in 1970 in Red Bank, New Jersey and raised in nearby Little Silver. His father was a psychologist and his mother was a faculty member at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology.^[1] Bry attended Red Bank Regional High School^[4] then Connecticut College,^[5][6] where one of his freshman roommates was Sean Spicer.^[7]

Career

Public Apology

Begun in 2009 as a column for The Awl,^[8] Public Apology is an epistolary memoir in which Bry recounted his life via letters of apology for what Nathan Deuel described in Bookforum as "misdeeds great and small"; Deuel praised the book's "slyly understated style," saying "Bry’s restraint lends his prose its own brand of keenness and charisma."^[9][10][11]

In Rolling Stone, Patrick Doyle described the book as "a window into growing up in the late Eighties, when John Hughes films and Def Leppard ruled the world."^[6]

Death

Bry died of cancer on October 15, 2017 in Brooklyn at the age of 46.^[3]