Sidney Zion

Sidney Zion is an American writer. His works include "Markers", "Begin from Beginning", "Read All about It", "Trust Your Mother but Cut the Cards", (collections of his columns), "Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob" and "Markers" (a novel). He is co-author of "The Autobiography of Roy Cohn". He also was a co-founder and co-editor of "Scanlan's Monthly" magazine.

Zion graduated from University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School, working as a trial lawyer until becoming Assistant US Attorney for New Jersey in 1961. He then turned to journalism and writing novels. He worked for various New York publications, including the "New York Times", the "The New York Daily News", the "New York Post" and "New York Magazine". He is a recipient of the Ben Hecht Journalism Award. He married Elsa H. Zion, and their daughter, Libby Zion died age 18 in Cornell Hospital. Her death and the subsequent investigation and trial led to improvements in hospital resident working conditions. cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Libby Zion |url= |quote= Libby Zion, a freshman at Bennington College in Vermont and the daughter of the writer and lawyer Sidney E. Zion and his wife, Elsa, died of cardiac arrest yesterday at New York Hospital after a brief illness. She was 18 years old and lived with her parents in Manhattan. Miss Zion, who had worked recently for the Manhattan Borough President, Andrew J. Stein, as part of a study project and was to have been employed next summer on the clerical staff of The New York Times, became ill several days ago with a flu-like ailment. The cause of the cardiac arrest was not immediately determined. Her father, a former reporter for The Times and former publisher of Scanlon's Magazine, is the author of "Read All About It." Her mother is a former publishing executive. Besides her parents, Miss Zion is survived by two brothers, Adam and Jed. |publisher=New York Times |date=March 6, 1984 |accessdate=2007-07-21 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Elsa Zion, 70; Helped Cut Doctor Workloads |url= |quote= Elsa H. Zion, a city official and former publishing executive who campaigned successfully to regulate the workload of interns and residents in New York State's hospitals after the highly publicized death of her daughter, Libby, in 1984, died on Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She was 70 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was complications of breast cancer, said her husband, the journalist Sidney Zion. |publisher=New York Times |date=March 5, 2005 |accessdate=2007-07-21 ]

External links

* [http://wiredforbooks.org/sidneyzion/ Taped radio interview]
* [http://law.jrank.org/pages/3630/Zion-v-New-York-Hospital-1994-95.html Zion v. NY Hospital]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112400985.html Washington Post report]

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