follows the lives of six New Yorkers and is set on the day the last graffiti-covered train was in service. Writing in The Washington Post, Yardley commented: "Subway Lives is a book that not merely tells you everything you secretly wanted to know about subways; it also allows you to see New York from a novel, revealing vantage point...In every way, it's a terrific book." In the Los Angeles Times, Devon Jerslid wrote: "Subway Lives may be hard-boiled, but it's best understood as an epic poem, and Dwyer himself comes across as a faintly Homeric figure, a late 20th-century urban bard who finds something heroic in (and under) the mean streets of Gotham." Much of the material for the book came from his job as the subway columnist from 1986 to 1989 for New York Newsday. Film and theater The filmmaker Ken Burns described Dwyer as the Greek chorus of the 2012 documentary, Central Park Five, made by Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon, on the wrongful convictions of five teenagers in an attack on a jogger. The actor Michael Gaston portrayed Dwyer in Lucky Guy, a play by Nora Ephron about Dwyer's friend Mike McAlary, the late Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist, that ran on Broadway in 2013, starring Tom Hanks as McAlary. Dwyer wrote about McAlary and his conversations with Ephron for The New York Times. Books References External links 1957 births 2020 deaths American columnists Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting winners Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winners Fordham University alumni Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni Newsday people New York Daily News people The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winners Wrongful conviction advocacy American people of Irish descent The New York Times people 20th-century American journalists 21st-century American journalists American male journalists Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state)