Cary Reich; Journalist, Rockefeller Biographer

Cary Reich, 48, biographer of Nelson A. Rockefeller. Born in New York City, Reich graduated from Brooklyn College and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Illinois. He went into financial journalism, working for the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, a Wall Street newsletter and the Institutional Investor, where he started the international edition and earned the Overseas Press Club Award. Fascinated by Rockefeller from childhood, Reich left his position as executive editor of the Institutional Investor in 1988 to work on a biography. His first volume, “The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958,” was published in 1996 and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Reich had completed research and written about a third of a second volume at the time of his death. He was also the author of the 1983 book “Financier: The Biography of Andre Meyer.” On Tuesday in New York of pancreatic cancer.