Oct 1, 2023 1 min read

Ed Fancher, a Founder of The Village Voice, Is Dead at 100

Mr. Fancher, center, at the offices of The Village Voice with his fellow founders, Norman Mailer, left, and Dan Wolf. Mr. Mailer, already a well-known novelist, wrote a column for The Voice but left after a few months. Credit: Gene Pauler.

When he started the alternative weekly with Dan Wolf and Norman Mailer in 1955, he later said, “We were crazy enough to think it would succeed.”