At Lunch with Sam Roberts

Julie Salamon (New York Times best-selling author) sits down with journalist and author Sam Roberts.  Sam Roberts covered urban affairs in New York as a reporter, columnist, domestic correspondent and editor for The New York Times and The New York Daily News for more than 50 years.  Currently he works as an obituaries writer for The New York Times, and is the founding host of “The New York Times Close Up,” which first appeared in 1992 on NY1 News and is now available on CUNY-TV. Sam is also the author of a dozen nonfiction books, including The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City; A History of New York in 101 Objects; and The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Atom Spy Case.  He was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Cornell University.