Speed Vogel

Speed Vogel

Irving "Speed" Vogel (March 3, 1918 – April 14, 2008) was an sculptor and co-author, along with Joseph Heller, of the best-selling [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/books/18vogel.html "Speed Vogel, Author’s Aide, Dies at 90"] - "The New York Times"] memoir, "No Laughing Matter".

A textile businessman and associate of Gwathmey Siegel, he was also member of the "Gourmet Club," an assemblage of writers, artists and showbusiness people (which included Mel Brooks and Mario Puzo, among others), who gathered weekly from the 1960s to the 1980s to eat and talk at Chinese restaurants in New York. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/books/18vogel.html "Speed Vogel, Author’s Aide, Dies at 90"] - "The New York Times"]

Vogel died of natural causes at his home in Sag Harbor, New York. He was 90. [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS163311+18-Apr-2008+PRN20080418 "Speed Vogel Obituary"] - "Reuters"]

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