| Dave Bry | |
| Birth Date: | 18 December 1970 |
| Birth Place: | Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Education: | Red Bank Regional High School |
| Alma Mater: | Connecticut College |
| Occupation: | Editor, author, music journalist |
| Notable Works: | Public Apology |
| Children: | 1 |
Dave Bry (December 18, 1970[1] – October 15, 2017)[2] was an American writer, music journalist, and editor. He served as editor of Vibe, Spin, and XXL and was a columnist for The Awl.[3] 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).
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.[1] Bry attended Red Bank Regional High School[4] then Connecticut College,[5] [6] where one of his freshman roommates was Sean Spicer.[7]
Begun in 2009 as a column for The Awl,[8] 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."[9] [10] [11]
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."[6]
Bry died of cancer on October 15, 2017, at the age of 46.[3]