http://www.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/actions.DisplayEADDoc.do?source=MdU.ead.litms.0002.xml&style=ead Seymour Lawrence, an independent publisher He married Merloyd Ludington on June 21, 1952, and they had two children, a daughter, Macy, and a son, Nicholas. He was divorced in February 1984 and in later years lived with Joan Williams, a novelist and short story writer. He died on January 4, 1994, from complications suffered during a heart attack which struck him while he was in Florida. The New York Times obituary of Lawrence included the following characterization: