Known for his personal connection with those who read his work, Anders had a loyal following as a columnist in the Today section from the late 1970s to 2000.
Former Dallas Morning News columnist John Anders, shown in March 1980, died Monday at 77. Readers celebrated Anders' work for its personal quality during his 32 year career at the paper.John Anders, whose lyrical writing, eclectic tastes and vast knowledge of Texas and his own distinct passions guided his career atfor 32 years, more than 20 of which he spent as one of the paper’s leading columnists, died Monday. He was 77.Born in Lexington, Ky.
“John was the kind of guy that — man! — He was the best kind of human being, number one, and number two, the type of guy who, no matter what the scene was, or what the situation was, John fit right in,” Galloway said. “Andloved John. Not only a great sportswriter but then he moves out of Sports and becomes a great columnist. It was a heck of a career.
She called Anders’ career part of “a bygone era in journalism. We just don’t have that kind of personal column anymore. Very few newspapers, if any, have columns today that are that personal in nature. But it strikes me in another way that John was a precursor of what we experience on the web,” on social media, on personal sites such as Facebook. “John really was one of the original influencers. People wanted to know what he thought, what he liked, where he went and how he raised his family.
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