Hamilton College alumna Rosemary Breslin '79, an acclaimed writer, died Monday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She was 47. Breslin suffered from a rare blood illness, which she described in a series of essays published in New York Newsday and the Los Angeles Times and in her acclaimed memoir, Not Exactly What I Had in Mind: An Incurable Love Story.
Articles about the life of Breslin were featured in Newsday, the New York Times and the New York Sun, among others. According to the New York Times, the cause of her death was cardiac and renal failure associated with the blood disorder from which she suffered.
