The man who wrote The Warriors has passed away.
From The New York Times:
"Sol Yurick, a writer whose best-known work, the 1965 novel “The Warriors,†recast an ancient Greek battle as a tale of warring New York street gangs and earned a cult following in print, on film and eventually in a video game, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 87.
The cause was complications of lung cancer, said his daughter, Susanna Yurick."
From The New York Times:
"Sol Yurick, a writer whose best-known work, the 1965 novel “The Warriors,†recast an ancient Greek battle as a tale of warring New York street gangs and earned a cult following in print, on film and eventually in a video game, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 87.
The cause was complications of lung cancer, said his daughter, Susanna Yurick."