Danville

The author’s partner Julie Divola and sister Judy Clifford confirmed to the New York Times on Wednesday that Smith, a Danville, Calif., resident, died “after enduring the cascading effects of a rare autoimmune disease for a decade.”

Hackman was born in San Bernardino on Jan. 30, 1930, and his family ultimately settled in Danville, Ill. His father, a newspaper pressman, never made enough money to buy a house, so they lived with Hackman’s maternal grandmother.

He later worked at stations in Florida and Danville.

His parents divorced, and he was palmed off on various relatives until settling with his maternal grandmother in Danville, Illinois.

In Danville, Ky., we once bought rain boots while waiting for a flat tire to be fixed.