Alan Riding, Times Correspondent in Latin America and Paris, Dies at 82
He was a cosmopolitan observer and interpreter of societies he knew firsthand, whether writing about war in Nicaragua or the history and cultural salons of France.
Alan Riding, who trained as a barrister in London before becoming a cosmopolitan correspondent for The New York Times, one whose reporting spanned the boulevards of Paris and the salons of Lisbon as much as the politics and insurgencies he encountered in Latin America, died on Saturday in Paris. He was 82.
The death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his wife, Marlise Simons, a longtime reporter for The Times. The cause was cancer.
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