drug addicts about her experience. In 1994, Lydon had a kidney removed to treat renal cancer. In 2002, she took medical leave from her newspaper to fight breast cancer with chemotherapy and radiation. Treatment continued until April 2004, when liver cancer was discovered. In what would be the last weeks of her life, she went to Boca Raton in Florida to enter hospice and be with her sister, brother, mother, and daughter. She died of liver cancer on July 15, 2005, at the age of 61. References 1943 births 2005 deaths 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American journalists American women journalists American feminist writers American people of German-Jewish descent Writers from the Bronx Vassar College alumni Deaths from cancer in Florida Deaths from liver cancer Journalists from New York City Journalists from California Oakland Tribune people People in knitting 20th-century American memoirists