Albert I. Borowitz

Albert Borowitz, retired partner in the law firm of Jones Day and author of sixteen books, including mainly studies of true crime and four mystery novels, as well as a historian of Jones Day, died on January 28, 2023, at age 92. He is survived by two children, Peter and Andy, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, and was predeceased by his daughter Joan. His first wife, Helen Osterman Borowitz, deceased in 2012, was a distinguished curator of art and education in The Cleveland Museum of Art, where a plaque hangs in her memory near the Museum Library. In 2014 he married Joan Rothwell Mortimer, who was an emeritus professor of Child Psychology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and who predeceased him in 2016.

Mr. Borowitz was born in Chicago. He received three degrees from Harvard University, B.A., Classics; M.A., Chinese Regional Studies; and J.D. He was granted a Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature and several other literary awards. He was a member of Cleveland's Rowfant Club, and the first non-English member of London's Crimes Club ("Our Society"). He is known for inventing the term "psychological kidnapping." His most recent books include "Blood & Ink" (2002); "Terrorism for Self-Glorification" (2005); and "Musical Mysteries" (2010). He and his wife Helen founded the Borowitz True Crime Collection at the Kent State University Library.