Jerry Oster
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Carlsbad, New Mexico
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jerry Oster | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 22, 1943 Carlsbad, New Mexico |
| Died | January 26, 2020 (aged 77) Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | Columbia College |
| Notable works | Sweet Justice |
| Spouse | Trisha Lester |
Jerry Oster (January 22, 1943 – January 26, 2020) was an American writer.[1][2] His novels include Sweet Justice and Nowhere Man, about the investigations of New York Police Department Lt. Jake Neuman.[3][4]
After graduating from Columbia College, Oster began his career in 1965 as a clerk and reporter for United Press International.[5][6] He also worked as a reporter and film critic for Reuters and the New York Daily News.[7][8] Oster was in a relationship with the musician Judy Collins in the 1970s.[9] He published the crime novel Sweet Justice in 1985. It opens with the shooting of three young men on the New York City Subway; several media stories mentioned the parallels to the Bernhard Goetz incident, although Oster was inspired in part by a 1979 shooting on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.[10][11] Oster later worked for Duke University as an Associate in Research.[12] His papers are held at University Libraries at Bowling Green State University.[13]