Robert Schimmel, 60, a standup comic who was a frequent guest on Howard Stern’s radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident.
Schimmel’s spokesman, Howard Bragman, said Schimmel died Friday evening in a Phoenix hospital.
Schimmel was a passenger Thursday in a car driven by his 19-year- old daughter, Aliyah. Bragman said Aliyah Schimmel swerved to avoid another car and the vehicle she was driving rolled to the side of the freeway.
Bragman said she was hospitalized in stable condition.
Robert Schimmel lived in Scottsdale, Ariz. The comedian had been a frequent guest on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” and on Howard Stern’s radio show. His 2008 memoir, “Cancer on $5 a Day,” chronicles his battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Larry Ashmead, 78, a former book editor who worked with Isaac Asimov, Tony Hillerman and other authors, has died.
His former publisher, HarperCollins, announced Friday that Ashmead died at a hospital in Hudson, N.Y., after a brief illness.
Ashmead was a native of Rochester, N.Y. He received a doctorate in geology from Yale University.
He worked in publishing for 43 years, first at Doubleday and eventually at HarperCollins. He retired from there in 2003.
Ashmead edited works on topics as diverse as science fiction and crime. He was known for his fascination with words and wordplay and compiled “Bertha Venation and Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People,” published in 2007 and including such entries as Roger Gotobed and Ida Slaptor. Denver Post wire services
