EditorialLynda Bluestein, who was diagnosed with late-stage fallopian tube cancer, at her home in Bridgeport, Conn. on March 23, 2023. (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times)
EditorialSebastian Cwilich, left, and Lynda Hammes, who co-founded Tertulia, an app that recommends books to readers, in New York, May 25, 2022. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialLynda Gravatt, left, and Viola Davis in Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel" at the Laura Pels Theater in New York, March 19, 2004. (Richard Termine/The New York Times)
EditorialDefense attorney F. Lee Bailey, accompanied by his wife, Lynda Hart, outside Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on July 11, 1972. (Librado Romero/The New York Times)
EditorialDefense attorney F. Lee Bailey, accompanied by his wife, Lynda Hart, outside Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on July 11, 1972. (Librado Romero/The New York Times)