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Full Name: Les Payne
Biography:
(1941-2018) Journalist. Les Payne was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for Newsday.
Author's Timeline:
1941 (Unknown) County
Leslie Payne was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on July 12, 1941. 
2018 New York County
Les Payne died in Manhattan, New York, on March 19, 2018. 
2018 New York County
Mr. Payne lived in Harlem, Manhattan, New York. 
1975 (Unknown) County
The Heroin Trail
(Pub: Holt, Rinehart and Winston ISBN: 0030138418 / 978-0030138416)
Mr. Payne was part of a team of Newsday editors who authored "The Heroin Trail." 
1976 (Unknown) County
The Life and Death of the SLA
(Pub: Ballantine Books ISBN: 034525449X / 978-0345254498)
Nonfiction written with Tim Findley and Carolyn Craven.  
? New York County
Mr. Payne taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. 
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