Shannon, Larry R.

March 17, 1937 - July 31, 2004

Watertown Daily Times (NY) - Sunday, August 8, 2004

Deceased Name: LARRY R. SHANNON, 67, DIES WAS NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR

Larry R. Shannon, a retired writer and editor for The New York Times, died July 31 at his home in Toms River, N.J. He was 67 and a former resident of Glen Rock, N.J. 

The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his wife, Jan. 

Shannon joined The Times in 1967, working as a copy editor on the foreign desk and then as an assistant foreign editor before moving to the Travel section in 1978; he retired as an editor there in 1997. For a decade, under the byline L.R. Shannon, he also wrote a column called Peripherals, about computer accessories, for the Science Times section. With his wife, Shannon wrote "Welcome to Home-Based Business Computing" (John Wiley & Sons, 1995), which remains in print. 

After retirement, he continued to write monthly Cyberscout columns in the Travel section about travel and shopping tips available on the Internet. 

A native of San Francisco, Shannon attended San Francisco State College (now University). He joined The Oakland Tribune as an editor in 1958.