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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Ned Vizzini dies at 32: Fans mourn ‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story’ writer – TODAY.com.
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Barbara Park, a former class clown who channeled her irreverence into the million-selling mishaps of grade schooler Junie B. Jones, has died. She was 66. Park died Friday after a long battle with ovarian cancer, according to a statement released Sunday by Random House Books for Young Readers. She was a longtime resident of Scottsdale,
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Doris Lessing, Nobel-winning writer, dies at 94 – The Washington Post. Sad news.
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Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 – NYTimes.com. So sad to have to announce the death of one of my favorite authors, Elmore Leonard.
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The writing and publishing world lost way too many people in 2012. Here’s a list of names, with, if available, date of death and a link to an obituary. Sam Levin 1/2 Josef Skvorecky 1/3 Mary C. Henderson 1/3 Charles W. Bailey 1/3 Milburn Calhoun 1/7 Wislawa Szymborska 2/1 Basil Payne John Turner Sargent, Sr.
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Some interesting takes on the literary world this week. Out of Touch: E-reading isn’t reading Slate caused quite a stir recently with its publication of this excerpt from Andrew Piper’s recent book Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times (University of Chicago Press, 2012): Amid the seemingly endless debates today about the future of reading,
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Ernest Borgnine, Tough but Tender Actor, Is Dead at 95 – NYTimes.com Ernest Borgnine, the rough-hewn actor who seemed destined for tough-guy characters but won an Academy Award for embodying the gentlest of souls, a lonely Bronx butcher, in the 1955 film “Marty,” died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 95.
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Adrienne Rich, Influential Feminist Poet, Dies at 82 – NYTimes.com Triply marginalized — as a woman, a lesbian and a Jew — Ms. Rich was concerned in her poetry, and in her many essays, with identity politics long before the term was coined. She accomplished in verse what Betty Friedan, author of “The Feminine Mystique,”
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