Edgar Orloff, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdgar Orloff
American journalist
Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1923
Date of Death: 04-Jun-1983
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Edgar Orloff
- Edgar S.
- Orloff (June 17, 1923 – June 4, 1983) was a San Francisco Bay Area-based newspaper columnist and editor.
- He wrote the nationally syndicated columns Medicine Today (?-1983), which explained medical breakthroughs to a non-technical audience, and Here Tomorrow, which did the same for general technology.
- During his long career in journalism, Orloff worked at over a dozen newspapers, including the San Francisco News-Call-Bulletin, the Great Falls Tribune, the New York Post and the Bergen Record (he liked to refer to himself as "the last of the old time tramp copy editors").
- Before dying of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), his last editorial position was as assistant managing editor of The San Francisco Examiner.
- Orloff retired from his job in January 1982.
- Orloff also taught courses in journalism at the University of California-Berkeley.
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