David Pryce-Jones, the famed author, essayist, and man of letters, died at age 89. A popular writer, historian , and journalist , Pryce-Jones’s career spanned more than six decades. He was, in many respects, the last of his kind. His death marks the end of both an era and a certain kind of intellectual — one that we need now more than ever.

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Born in 1936 in Vienna , Pryce-Jones’s upbringing was both unique and representative of a certain era and class. His father, Alan Payan Pryce-Jones, was a noted British book critic and editor. His mother, Therese “Poppy” Fould-Springer, was “half French and half Austrian but altogether Jewish,” he observed. His father’s

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