{{short description|Editor and writer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2017}}{{Infobox person | name = Dave Bry | honorific_suffix = | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | image_upright = | image_size = <!-- Discouraged per WP:IMGSIZE; please use image_upright. --> | alt = | caption = | pronunciation = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name above --> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1970|12|18}} | birth_place = Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|10|15|1970|12|18}} | death_place = | education = Red Bank Regional High School | alma_mater = Connecticut College | occupation = Editor, author, music journalist | years_active = | era = | employer = | organization = | notable_works = ''Public Apology'' | style = | spouse = {{marriage|Emily Raimes|2001}} | children = 1 }}
'''Dave Bry''' (December 18, 1970<ref name=":2">{{cite news|last1=Bry|first1=Dave|title=Dear Joel|url=https://www.theawl.com/2010/09/dear-joel|accessdate=October 16, 2017|work=The Awl|date=September 22, 2010|language=en}}</ref> – October 15, 2017)<ref name=":0">{{cite news|title=Dave Bry, 1970-2017|url=https://www.theawl.com/2017/10/dave-bry-1970-2017|accessdate=October 16, 2017|work=The Awl|date=October 15, 2017|language=en}}</ref> was an American writer, music journalist, and editor. He served as editor of ''Vibe'', ''Spin'', and ''XXL'' and was a columnist for The Awl.<ref name="varobit">{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2017/music/news/dave-bry-author-and-former-editor-at-vibe-xxl-and-spin-dies-1202590856/|title=Dave Bry, Author and Former Editor at Vibe, XXL and Spin, Dies at 46|last=Aswad|first=Jem|date=2017-10-16|work=Variety|access-date=2017-10-16|language=en-US}}</ref> He also authored a non-fiction book, ''Public Apology: In Which a Man Grapples with a Lifetime of Regret, One Incident at a Time'' (Grand Central, 2013).
==Early life== Bry was born in 1970 in Red Bank, New Jersey and raised in nearby Little Silver. His father was a psychologist and his mother was a faculty member at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology.<ref name=":2"/> Bry attended Red Bank Regional High School<ref>Bry, Dave. [https://www.theawl.com/2012/07/eric-b-rakims-paid-in-full-at-25 "Eric B. & Rakim's 'Paid In Full' At 25"], ''The Awl'', July 6, 2012; accessed October 16, 2017.<br> "But for us, in the halls of Red Bank Regional High School in New Jersey, it was not up for discussion: Rakim was the best."</ref> then Connecticut College,<ref>{{cite web|title=Dave Bry|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/dave-bry|website=The Huffington Post|accessdate=October 16, 2017}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite magazine|last1=Doyle|first1=Patrick|title=Dave Bry Apologizes to Bon Jovi, Bob Mould in New Memoir|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dave-bry-apologizes-to-bon-jovi-bob-mould-in-new-memoir-20130412|accessdate=October 16, 2017|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=April 12, 2013}}</ref> where one of his freshman roommates was Sean Spicer.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/20/donald-trump-rnc-sean-spicer-my-little-pony-melania-plagiarism|title=The Trump surrogate who used My Little Pony to defend Melania? My college roommate|last=Bry|first=Dave|date=2016-07-20|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-10-16|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
==Career== ===''Public Apology''=== Begun in 2009 as a column for The Awl,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hill|first1=Angela|title=Do you apologize too much?|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/04/02/do-you-apologize-too-much|accessdate=16 October 2017|work=The Mercury News|date=April 2, 2013}}</ref> ''Public Apology'' is an epistolary memoir in which Bry recounted his life via letters of apology for what Nathan Deuel described in ''Bookforum'' as "misdeeds great and small"; Deuel praised the book's "slyly understated style," saying "Bry’s restraint lends his prose its own brand of keenness and charisma."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Deuel|first1=Nathan|title=Public Apology by Dave Bry|url=http://www.bookforum.com/review/11182|accessdate=16 October 2017|work=Bookforum|date=March 13, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Lee|first1=Stephan|title=Public Apology|url=http://ew.com/article/2013/03/19/public-apology|accessdate=October 16, 2017|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=March 19, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Italie|first1=Leanne|title=Public Apology writer makes letter format a memoir|url=https://www.yahoo.com/movies/public-apology-writer-makes-letter-format-memoir-183903455.html|accessdate=October 16, 2017|agency=Associated Press|publisher=Yahoo!|date=March 18, 2013}}</ref>
In ''Rolling Stone'', Patrick Doyle described the book as "a window into growing up in the late Eighties, when John Hughes films and Def Leppard ruled the world."<ref name=":1"/>
==Death== Bry died of cancer on October 15, 2017 in Brooklyn at the age of 46.<ref name="varobit"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * Bry's [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/dave-bry columns] at ''The Guardian'' * Bry's [https://www.theawl.com/slug/public-apology/ "Public Apology"] columns at The Awl * Bry's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510100558/http://trueslant.com/davebry/ "Death & Parenting"] columns at True/Slant
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