An Appraisal – Updike Made the Mundane Into a Saga – NYTimes.com: Endowed with an art student’s pictorial imagination, a journalist’s sociological eye and a poet’s gift for metaphor, John Updike — who died on Tuesday at 76 — was arguably this country’s one true all-around man of letters, moving fluently from fiction to criticism, […]
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John Updike, Author, Dies at 76 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: NEW YORK (AP) — John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76. Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., died
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Donald E. Westlake, Mystery Writer, Is Dead at 75 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Donald E. Westlake, a prolific, award-winning mystery novelist who pounded out more than 100 books and five screenplays on manual typewriters during his half-century career, died Wednesday night. He was 75. Aw, darn. The audiobook currently playing on my iPod is
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Michael Crichton Dies – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com: Michael Crichton, the author of the blockbuster science-fiction novels ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘The Andromeda Strain’ and ‘State of Fear,’ has died. He was 66.
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Here are two retrospectives on Tony Hillerman: In Appreciation of Tony Hillerman, The Christian Science Monitor bestselling mystery author provided insight into the native people and culture of the Southwest, Los Angeles Times
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Tony Hillerman, Novelist, Dies at 83 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: The Associated Press has reported the death of novelist Tony Hillerman,”whose lyrical, authentic and compelling mystery novels set among the Navajos of the Southwest blazed innovative trails in the American detective story,” according to New York Times reviewer Marilyn Stasio.
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James Crumley, Crime Novelist, Is Dead at 68 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: James Crumley, a critically acclaimed crime novelist whose drug-infused, alcohol-soaked, profanity-laced, breathtakingly violent books swept the hard-boiled detective from the Raymond Chandler era into an amoral, utterly dissolute, apocalyptic post-Vietnam universe, died on Wednesday in Missoula, Mont. He was 68 and lived
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The Scout Report, a fine weekly newsletter from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin, offers this roundup of stories about the recent death of author David Foster Wallace: Friends and colleagues remember author David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace, Influential Writer, Dies at 46 [Free registration may be required] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html Wallace
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David Foster Wallace, Postmodern Writer, Is Found Dead – NYTimes.com: David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his California home on Friday, after apparently committing suicide, the authorities said. Today’s
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PASSINGS – Los Angeles Times: Gregory Mcdonald, 71, a former Boston Globe reporter whose best-selling ‘Fletch’ mystery books also were made into films, died of cancer Sunday at his farm in Pulaski, Tenn., according to his manager, David List.
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