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Mr. Bolles said in 2014 that he hoped his franchise would continue after he was gone.
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Richard Bolles
Died on March 31, 2017 at age 90
A former Harvard physics major, Episcopal minister and career counselor, Mr. Bolles’s own twisting vocational path led to his writing “What Color Is Your Parachute?” — the most popular job-hunter’s manual of the 1970s and beyond.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.