The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at age 86. Peter Yarrow died Tuesday at his home in New York.

Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow in 1978. (The Heritage Foundation) Yarrow was born on May 31, 1938, in New York. His father was a lawyer and a co-founder of the CIA project Radio Free Europe.

Peter Yarrow of folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary died in New York on Tuesday, January 7. The writer of the iconic song “Puff the Magic Dragon” was 86. “Our fearless dragon is tired and has ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter, activist and founding member of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday, his representative confirms. He was 86. Yarrow died at his home in New York ...

Peter, Paul and Mary reunited in 1978 for Survival Sunday, an anti-nuclear power concert in Los Angeles organised by Yarrow, and continued to play together until Travers' death in 2009.