Harry Haun spent more than five decades writing about the theater world with wit, warmth and encyclopedic precision. Photo by Walter McBride/Getty Images

When Broadway’s tireless chronicler Harry Haun joined Observer’s roster in 2012, he was already a legend in arts journalism. Over the years, we’ve been fortunate to work with many phenomenal writers covering the theater beat—Jesse Oxfeld, Rex Reed and the late John Heilpern among them—but none was as passionately invested in both the art form and the storytelling that surrounds it as Harry, who died earlier this week at age 85 following complications from congestive heart failure.

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Prior to adding his byline to our then-salmon-pink pages, Harry........

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