Bio:William M. Doerflinger

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From the New York Times, Dec. 31, 2000 (some text omitted): DOERFLINGER-William M. Died on Saturday, December 23, 2000, at Fellowship Village in Basking Ridge, NJ. He was 90. Born in New York City, he was a longtime resident of Convent Station before moving to Fellowship Village in 1999. In World War II he served in North Africa and Italy in the Office of War Information. During a long career as an editor at MacMillan and E.P. Dutton, he edited hundreds of books, including works by Woody Guthrie, Francois Sagan and Sir Edmund Hillary. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard, Mr. Doerflinger wrote Shantymen and Shantyboys: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman (1951), an important compilation of folk songs collected mainly on the New York waterfront and in Nova Scotia. He was a member of the Princeton Club and the International Brotherhood of Magicians, both in New York City, as well as the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship. His wife, the late Anne (Homer), died in 1995. Survivors include his five children ... ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. ...