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Monday Miscellany

Breakfast with Dr. Seuss                       In honor of the upcoming movie The Lorax, green eggs and ham at IHOP Dmitri Nabokov, Steward of Father’s Literary Legacy, Dies at 77 Dmitri Nabokov, the son of Vladimir Nabokov, who tended to the legacy of his father with […]

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Belva Plain, Novelist, Dies at 95

Belva Plain, Novelist, Dies at 95 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Belva Plain, who became a best-selling author at age 59 and whose multigenerational family sagas of Jewish-American life won a loyal readership in the millions, died on Tuesday at her home in Short Hills, N.J. She was 95. OK, so her fiction wasn’t the

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José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Writer, Dies at 87

José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Writer, Dies at 87 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation with a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, died on Friday at his home in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. He was

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Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67

Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Barry Hannah, a writer who found wide acclaim with wild, darkly comic short stories and novels set in a phantasmagoric South moving at warp speed, died on Monday at his home in Oxford, Miss. He was 67.

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Dick Francis, Novelist, Dies at 89

Dick Francis, Novelist, Dies at 89 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Best-selling crime writer Dick Francis, who drew on his experience as a successful steeplechase jockey for his racing thrillers, has died aged 89, the BBC said on Sunday. Francis rode more than 350 winners, and was champion jockey before injury forced him to take

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J. D. Salinger, Enigmatic Author, Dies at 91

J. D. Salinger, Enigmatic Author, Dies at 91 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to

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Dominick Dunne, Writer Who Chronicled High-Profile Crime, Is Dead at 83

Dominick Dunne, Writer Who Chronicled High-Profile Crime, Is Dead at 83 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Dominick Dunne, who gave up producing movies in midlife and reinvented himself as a best-selling author, magazine writer, television personality and reporter whose celebrity often outshone that of his subjects, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was

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Marilyn French, Novelist and Champion of Feminism, Dies at 79

Marilyn French, Novelist and Champion of Feminism, Dies at 79 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Marilyn French, a writer and feminist activist whose debut novel, ‘The Women’s Room,’ propelled her into a leading role in the modern feminist movement, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 79 and lived in Manhattan. . . . With

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Remembering John Updike

This week’s Scout Report has a good round-up of items about the death–and life–of John Updike: John Updike, Critic and Author, Dies At Age 76 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author John Updike Dies at Age 76 [Real Player] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99942825 Remembering Updike http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/remembering-upd/ For better or worse, John Updike produced a nearly endless stream of work http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-mew-updike-appreciate28-2009jan28,0,6965396.story John

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