John S. Driscoll

Driscoll was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, and first worked for The Boston Globe as a high school correspondent.^[1] He earned a degree from Northeastern University in 1957 and worked for the Union Leader of Manchester, New Hampshire; the Haverhill Journal of Haverhill, Massachusetts; and United Press International.^[1] He re-joined the Globe in 1958.^[1]

Rising through the ranks of the Globe, Driscoll eventually succeeding Michael C. Janeway as editor in March 1986. He left the Globe in 1994,^[1] retiring to Rye, New Hampshire.

Driscoll and his wife, Dolores, had four daughters.^[1] He authored a memoir about his parents and siblings, Picnic for Twelve: A Memoir of the Driscoll Family.^[1] Driscoll died in Boston in February 2019.^[2]

• Driscoll, Jack (2012). Picnic For Twelve: A Memoir of the Driscoll Family. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: RiverRun Bookstore. ISBN 978-0988537040.