Writer John Sedgwick, whose wide-ranging work highlighted his storied family’s history, dies at 72

“Families are like rivers, they go on and on, pooling here, tumbling there, as they flow toward a distant sea,” John Sedgwick wrote to open the final chapter of “In My Blood: Six…

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