The turning point in her life and career was her decision, at 22, to leave the Jehovah's Witnesses, which forbade a college education. She once wrote that for years she smoked six packs of cigarettes a day. The cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, said her daughter, Anna Harrison. She was 67 and lived in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Author and Essayist, Dies at 67īarbara Grizzuti Harrison, who emerged as a popular, prolific writer of keenly observed nonfiction with a 1978 book about the dozen years she spent as a Jehovah's Witness, died on Wednesday at a hospice in Manhattan.
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