Yorick Blumenfeld obituary

Yorick Blumenfeld’s bestselling novel Jenny, My Diary, was based on his experiences as part of the community of Philia in New Zealand in the 1960s Photograph: none

My friend Yorick Blumenfeld, who has died aged 91, was a prolific writer and futurologist with more than 25 books and 2,000 articles to his name.

In the early 1960s, at the height of the cold war and worried by the risk of nuclear annihilation, Yorick and his wife, Helaine, travelled to the South Pacific with a group of friends and founded Philia, an international community near Nelson, New Zealand.