Sunday, March 4, 2012

Essayist and novelist Wilfrid Sheed dies in US

BOSTON (AP) — The stepdaughter of novelist and essayist Wilfrid Sheed says the English-born American writer has died. He was 80 years old.

Stepdaughter Phoebe Alexis Ungerer says Sheed died Wednesday in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and had long suffered from polio and more recently cancer of the mouth.

Born in London in 1930 to prominent Catholic publishers, Sheed was the author of a …

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