CONTRIBUTORS

GUSTAVO ARELLANO

“Farewell, Frieda,”

page 110

You’ve profiled so many people in your career. How is it a different experience when you’re writing about someone who’s passed, as you do this month in your appreciation of produce pioneer Frieda Caplan, a.k.a. the “Kiwi Queen”?

You try to place them among the eternals—get the scope of their life, yes, but also make the argument that they mattered. It’s a challenge, but one that I find readers love even more than profiles of the living.