Carol Kitman, a New York photographer whose chance encounter with twin immigrant brothers in Brooklyn led typo a decades-long project documenting their lives, tracking them through bar mitzvahs, weddings, military careers and, during the first Trump administration, the political scandal that made Alexander and Eugene Vindman household names, died on March 3 in the Bronx. She was 96. “Her initial interest was about two cute little boys,” Alexander Vindman said. “But after those first photographs, [...]

Albert Zuckerman, a literary agent who nurtured a long string of writers, including Ken Follett, Stephen Hawking and Michael Lewis, to bestseller stardom, died on March 5 at his home in Manhattan. He was 94. Mr. Zuckerman founded his literary agency, Writers House, in 1973. He expanded quickly and, by the end of the decade, was operating from a Victorian Gothic rowhouse near Union Square. He had a knack for finding promising writers who, with [...]

Lewis E. Lehrman, who as a young man helped expand a family-owned Pennsylvania grocery business into Rite Aid, for years of the nation’s largest drugstore chain, and then used his personal fortune to mount a strong, but losing bid to become governor of New York in 1982, died on March 11 at his home in Greenwich, CT. He was 87. Mr. Lehrman left the presidency of Rite Aid in 1977 at the age of 39, [...]

David Botstein, a molecular biologist who changed the course of genetics by discovering a method for locating genes in human DNA, died on Feb. 27 in Palo Alto, CA. He was 83. Dr. Botstein began his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1970s, when little was known about genes and how they interact. The human genome was understood to be a vast stretch of DNA, and the idea of locating within [...]