Alan Riding, Former Times Correspondent, Dies at 83 After Cancer
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 6
Alan Riding, Former Times Correspondent, Dies at 83 After Cancer
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 6
Summary
Alan Riding died Saturday in a Paris hospital at 83, with his wife, longtime Times reporter Marlise Simons, confirming cancer as the cause.
Born in Brazil to British parents, Riding became one of The New York Times’s leading interpreters of Latin America, reporting across Central and South America and Mexico.
His 1984 book “Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans” cemented that reputation by examining Mexico’s society, politics, economy and ties with the United States.
Riding later served as The Times’s Paris bureau chief and European cultural correspondent, extending his work from politics and insurgencies to architecture, ballet, opera and Shakespeare.