had a short run at the Ambassador Theatre on Broadway in January of that year. Personal life Kinoy was married to Barbara Powers, a doctor of psychotherapy, psychiatric social worker and an authority on the treatment of eating disorders, from 1948 until her death in 2007. They had two children. On November 10, 2014, Kinoy died of pneumonia. He was 89. References External links Ernest Kinoy - Archive of American Television Interview - 10 part video interview with Kinoy conducted by the Archive of American Television Ernest Kinoy Dead:'Golden Rainbow' and 'Roots' Writer Dies In Vermont 1925 births 2014 deaths American male screenwriters American radio writers American television writers Columbia College (New York) alumni Emmy Award winners Writers Guild of America Award winners American prisoners of war in World War II Jewish American writers United States Army personnel of World War II World War II prisoners of war held by Germany American male television writers 20th-century American screenwriters 20th-century American male writers United States Army soldiers 21st-century American Jews Deaths from pneumonia in Vermont