How else could he have become such a chronicler whose greatest work is still studied as the precursor of the modern psychological novel?

ECONOMIST: New fiction

The world lost a gifted chronicler who wrote with great authority and affection about the Middle East and beyond.

BBC: The media's darkest days remembered

The critically acclaimed Bitter, 1999's brooding song cycle about a troubled relationship, cast NdegeOcello as a mature and unconventional chronicler of human behavior, but since then, she's taken more creative risks.

NPR: MeShell NdegeOcello in Concert

"A lot of men are really not that interested in being Mr. Mary Smith, " says longtime chronicler of New York society David Patrick Columbia, who runs the site NewYorkSocial Diary.com.

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