Patricia Bosworth Death
Patricia Bosworth passed away on April 2, 2020 at the age of 86 in New York City, USA. Patricia Bosworth's cause of death was Coronavirus.
When did Patricia Bosworth die?
April 2, 2020How did Patricia Bosworth die? What was the cause of death?
CoronavirusHow old was Patricia Bosworth when died?
86Where did Patricia Bosworth die? What was the location of death?
New York City, USA
Patricia Bosworth Birthday and Date of Death
Patricia Bosworth was born on April 24, 1933 and died on April 2, 2020. Patricia Bosworth was 86 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: April 24, 1933
Date of Death: April 2, 2020
Age at Death: 86
Patricia Bosworth - Biography
Patricia Bosworth was an American journalist and biographer, memoirist, and actress. She was a faculty member of Columbia University’s school of journalism as well as Barnard College, and was a winner of the Front Page Award for her journalistic achievement in writing about the Hollywood Blacklist.
During Bosworth's sophomore year at Sarah Lawrence, her beloved brother Bart Jr. committed suicide at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. This event, and their father's suicide six years later in 1959, would continue to inform Bosworth's work throughout her life.
During her first year at Sarah Lawrence, Bosworth eloped with an art student. The marriage turned abusive and was annulled after sixteen months. Bosworth married novelist and playwright Mel Arrighi in 1966; the two collaborated on several projects outside of their individual work. Arrighi died due to cardiac arrest and complications from emphysema on September 17, 1986. In the late 1980s, Bosworth was reintroduced to photographer Tom Palumbo, whom she had met decades earlier when Palumbo had been on staff at Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Palumbo was then seguing from photography into directing theatre. He and Bosworth worked on a number of plays together for the Actors Studio and Lincoln Center, including a production of The Seagull starring Laura Linney as Nina and Tammy Grimes as Arkadina. They married in 2000. Palumbo died due to complications from Lewy Body Dementia on October 13, 2008. After Palumbo's death, Bosworth joined the board of the Lewy Body Dementia Resource Center.
Bosworth died on April 2, 2020, at Mount Sinai West hospital in New York City, due to pneumonia and complications from COVID-19, at the age of 86.
