Obituaries

Remembering Those We Lost in 2014

Preparing this list is my least favorite task of the year. Here are the people from the writing and publishing worlds whom we lost during 2014, including, where available, a link to an obituary and date of death. Elizabeth Jane Howard 1/2 Tom Rosenthal Amiri Baraka 1/9 Juan Gelman 1/14 Leslie Lee 1/20 Jose Emilio […]

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Nadine Gordimer, Novelist Who Took On Apartheid, Is Dead at 90 – NYTimes.com

Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer whose literary ambitions led her into the heart of apartheid to create a body of fiction that brought her a Nobel Prize in 1991, died on Sunday in Johannesburg. She was 90. via Nadine Gordimer, Novelist Who Took On Apartheid, Is Dead at 90 – NYTimes.com.

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Daniel Keyes, a Novelist of the Mind, Dies at 86 – NYTimes.com

Daniel Keyes, the author of “Flowers for Algernon,” the story of a man with an I.Q. of 68 who temporarily becomes a genius after surgery — a book that inspired the film “Charly,” starring Cliff Robertson — died on Sunday at his home in South Florida.  He was 86. via Daniel Keyes, a Novelist of

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Monday Miscellany

Death of Maya Angelou The biggest story of the literary world this past week has been the death of Maya Angelou at age 86. The coverage has been extensive, but here are a few stories I’ve chosen as providing a good overview of her influence and significance: Maya Angelou: The essential reading list From USA

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Mary Stewart, British Writer Who Spanned Genres, Dies at 97 – NYTimes.com

Mary Stewart, British Writer Who Spanned Genres, Dies at 97 – NYTimes.com. Mary Stewart, the British author of romantic thrillers who jumped genres in her 50s to create the internationally best-selling trilogy of Merlin books, reimagining the Arthurian legend from a sorcerer’s point of view, died on May 9 at her home in the village

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Gabriel García Márquez, Conjurer of Literary Magic, Dies at 87

Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87. via GabrielGarcíaMárquez,ConjurerofLiteraryMagic,Diesat87-NYTimes.com.

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Mary Cheever, a Central Figure in a Literary Family, Dies at 95 – NYTimes.com

Mary Cheever, a Central Figure in a Literary Family, Dies at 95 – NYTimes.com Mary Cheever, a central figure in a family of prominent American writers whose most notable member was her husband, John, with whom she had a relationship as complex as those he wrote about in his prizewinning short stories and novels, died

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Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor, Dies at 46 – NYTimes.com

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor, Dies at 46 – NYTimes.com Philip Seymour Hoffman, perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation, who gave three-dimensional nuance to a wide range of sidekicks, villains and leading men on screen and embraced some of the theater’s most burdensome roles on Broadway, died Sunday at an

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Remembering Those We Lost in 2013

It’s time again to remember those people from the worlds of writing and publishing who left us during the past year. As always, this year’s list is much too long. Here are their names, listed chronologically and with, when available, date of death and a link to an obituary. Gerda Lerner      1/2 Richard

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