he wrote for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, the War Department and helped to write a top-secret history of the OSS. In addition to his pursuits as a writer, Hellman was an enthusiastic butterfly collector. Marriage and family life Hellman's distinguished wife, with whom he had an affair as her first marriage was falling apart, was Daphne Hellman, a banking heiress who became a highly admired jazz harpist. They married in Reno, Nevada in 1941 just hours after her divorce from magazine editor Harry A. Bull. Their daughter, herself a musician, is sitar player Daisy Paradis. The couple also had an adopted son, Digger St. John. At some point in the marriage, Hellman left Daphne for another woman and the couple divorced in or around 1958. (Coincidentally, Daphne's only child with first husband Harry Bull was also a musician—prominent folk guitarist Sandy Bull, who died in 2001 at age 60. Daphne Hellman died a year later, at age 86.) In 1960, Hellman married Katherine Henry, with whom he had a daughter, Katharine Hellman. Hellman died of cancer in 1977 at his 171 East 71st Street, Manhattan home. He was survived by a sister, Rhoda Hellman. Notes External links 1907 births 1977 deaths The New Yorker people The New Yorker staff writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers Taft School alumni 20th-century American journalists American male journalists 20th-century American male writers