Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

In 2009 Jenny Lawrence edited and publiWalter Lordd The Way It Was: Walter Lord on His Life and Books. Death

Lord a lifelong bachelor died on May 19 2002 after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease at his Manhattan home at the age of 84. John Walter Lord Jr.

(October 8 1917 – May 19 2002) was an American author best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account A Night to Remember about the sinking of the RMS Titanic.