SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mike Davis, author, activist and self-proclaimed “Marxist environmentalist” whose greatest fears drove him to anticipate riots, fires and disease in best-selling books such as “City of Quartz” and “The Ecology of Fear”. died at age 76.
Davis died Tuesday after a long battle with esophageal cancer, his friend Jon Wiener announced this week in an online posting for The Nation, a progressive magazine. Wiener, a historian who, with Davis, wrote “Setting the Night on Fire: LA in the ’60s,” told The Associated Press that Davis died in San Diego.
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