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09/22/2023 04:56 PMDana S. Wickware, born June 26, 1933, in Boston, passed away after a brief illness on Sept. 10 at hospice in Branford.
He grew up in New York City and lived for decades in Connecticut, first in Greenwich and then in Clinton. He was educated at Harvard College and, in his early career, worked for the Atomic Energy Commission on an early version of the tokamak fusion device. He later transitioned into journalism and was a medical writer.
He married Nancy Mulvihill in 1960 and had two children with her, Julie and Matthew. That union ended in divorce in 1977. In 1984, he married the author and linguist Kristin Helmore. She died in 2018.
Dana’s survivors include his son and daughter; two grandchildren, William and Breeze; two half-brothers, Potter Wickware, of Mill Valley, California, and Jared Wickware, of Honolulu, Hawaii; and half-sisters, Roxanne Wickware of Sainte-Suzanne, France, Jocelyn Sterling of Sarasota, Florida, and India Brady, of Honolulu.