Before his tumor struck, Greg Raver-Lampman was an award-winning author, screenwriter and journalist and had written for more than a dozen publications including Washingtonian, Regardie's, Spy, Parade and The Chicago Sun-Times.

The recipient of numerous writing awards, Raver-Lampman had been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize.

Magic and Loss, a compilation of letters he wrote to his then 3-year-old daughter after his cancer diagnosis, was selected by Reader's Digest as a worldwide condensed book selection published in 17 languages.