NEW YORK — Tony- and Grammy Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who with composer Jerry Bock made up the premier musical-theater songwriting duos of the…
NEW YORK — Tony winner Sheldon Harnick, best known for penning the lyrics to the musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” has died. He was 99. Harnick’s spokesman Sean Katz confirmed that he died Friday at his Manhattan home, The New York Times reports. The Chicago native and Army veteran moved to New York in his 20s to pursue a career in songwriting. The revue “Leonard Sillman’s New Faces of 1952″ .