NEW YORK - APRIL 11: (FILE PHOTO) Author David Halberstam attends the 5th annual "Poetry & The Creative Mind" celebrity poetry reading for national poetry month benefiting The Academy of American Poets on April 11, 2007 in New York City. Halberstam was killed in a car crash April 23, 2007 near Menlo Park, California at the age of 73, according to reports. (Photo by Peter Kramer/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** David Halberstam