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

They are appalled, says the city's most famous chronicler, Suketu Mehta, that Mumbai stands for "lucre, profane dreams and indiscriminate openness".

BBC: Why does Mumbai bleed again and again?

The best chronicler of modern mavericks, to my mind, is Michael Lewis.

FORBES: God Bless the Mavericks

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

Anderson, who has been observer and chronicler of the web, now shares the details of his childhood and family history of invention and entrepreneurism.

FORBES: Chris Anderson's New 'Maker' Vision

"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.

FORBES: Magazine Article

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

To understand what a departure this is from past views of slum life one must go back to the late 19th century's most famous chronicler of the poor sides of town, Jacob Riis.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Despite the toylike feel of his figures, he is too knowing to be a primitive, and for all his seemingly topical references mocking scenes, for example, of military juntas he is too dreamy to be a chronicler and too gentle for a parodist.

ECONOMIST: Latin American painting