Folk singer Peter Yarrow — writer of the timeless classic "Puff the Magic Dragon" and one-third of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary — died Tuesday, a family representative said. He was 86 ...

“I never stopped singing and that was one of the lessons that Peter taught me,” she said. Wheeler said she had been in touch with Yarrow frequently over the past year. She knew he had been sic ...

Peter (Yarrow), Paul (Stookey) and Mary (Travers) on "The Jack Benny Program," circa 1963. "Being an only child, growing up without siblings ... both of the brothers I never had … and I shall ...

All of the singers were in their early 20s at the time and had never been professionally involved in the music industry. The group then released their first album—Peter, Paul and Mary—in 1962.

Peter Yarrow, one-third of the hit-making 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, and a Jewish activist who promoted Israeli-Palestinian coexistence and other progressive causes, has died at age 86.

"Being an only child, growing up without siblings may have afforded me the full attention of my parents, but with the formation of Peter, Paul and Mary, I suddenly had a brother named Peter Yarrow ...

In a candid statement, he said: “Being an only child, growing up ... Peter was both of the brothers I never had — and I shall deeply miss both of him." During their career spanning the 1960s ...