Tim Mohr, the acclaimed journalist, author, and translator who collaborated on memoirs with Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and KISS frontman Paul Stanley, died Monday at his home in Brooklyn, New York, reports Rolling Stone. He was 55.
Mohr’s publisher, Europa Editions, confirmed his death and shared a tribute from executive publisher Michael Reynolds. The cause was pancreatic cancer.
According to Rolling Stone, Mohr started his career as a club DJ in Berlin for much of the 1990s before transitioning to journalism, where his work appeared in New York, The New York Times Book Review, and Details, among others. He was a staff editor for Playboy for several years, editing such diverse voices as Hunter S. Thompson, John Dean, and comic book writer Harvey Pekar. It was there that he hired Duff McKagan in 2008 to write a regular column about finance and the economy.
“To be in Tim’s literary world was a crash-course lesson on how to be concise and informative, with nudges of humor here and there,” McKagan tells Rolling Stone. “He nudged me to be great at all times, and to have humor every breathing second … Tim was mainly responsible for guiding me and pushing me to write my first book It’s So Easy (and other lies). I am forever grateful for his guidance … We lost a good man, a family man, a friend, and a literary lion.”
Following McKagan’s book in 2012, Mohr was recruited to complete Gil Scott-Heron’s unfinished memoir The Last Holiday, released one year after the jazz-funk luminary’s death. He worked alongside Paul Stanley on his 2014 memoir Face the Music: A Life Exposed and industrial pioneer Genesis P-Orridge on the posthumously released 2021 book Nonbinary.
“My dear friend, literary collaborator, pure soul, brilliant mind, street food gourmet and so much more has died from pancreatic cancer,” Stanley wrote on X. “I’m heartbroken. If you knew him, you loved him. The world has lost a bright light.”
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Mohr’s publisher, Europa Editions, confirmed his death and shared a tribute from executive publisher Michael Reynolds. The cause was pancreatic cancer.
According to Rolling Stone, Mohr started his career as a club DJ in Berlin for much of the 1990s before transitioning to journalism, where his work appeared in New York, The New York Times Book Review, and Details, among others. He was a staff editor for Playboy for several years, editing such diverse voices as Hunter S. Thompson, John Dean, and comic book writer Harvey Pekar. It was there that he hired Duff McKagan in 2008 to write a regular column about finance and the economy.
“To be in Tim’s literary world was a crash-course lesson on how to be concise and informative, with nudges of humor here and there,” McKagan tells Rolling Stone. “He nudged me to be great at all times, and to have humor every breathing second … Tim was mainly responsible for guiding me and pushing me to write my first book It’s So Easy (and other lies). I am forever grateful for his guidance … We lost a good man, a family man, a friend, and a literary lion.”
Following McKagan’s book in 2012, Mohr was recruited to complete Gil Scott-Heron’s unfinished memoir The Last Holiday, released one year after the jazz-funk luminary’s death. He worked alongside Paul Stanley on his 2014 memoir Face the Music: A Life Exposed and industrial pioneer Genesis P-Orridge on the posthumously released 2021 book Nonbinary.
“My dear friend, literary collaborator, pure soul, brilliant mind, street food gourmet and so much more has died from pancreatic cancer,” Stanley wrote on X. “I’m heartbroken. If you knew him, you loved him. The world has lost a bright light.”
Read more at rollingstone.com.
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