Mr. Arisman, whose work appeared in The New York Times and other major periodicals, was a storyteller who mined his personal biography for inspiration.
Category: New York Times
Henry Scott Stokes Dies at 83; Opened Japan to English Speakers
A biographer of the nationalist novelist Yukio Mishima, he was Tokyo bureau chief for three major newspapers and, afterward, was no stranger to controversy.
Philip J. Hilts, 74, Dies; Reporter Exposed a Big-Tobacco Cover-up
In one of many scoops for The Times, he revealed how the tobacco industry had kept secret its own research showing that nicotine was harmful