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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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
Legendary author Maya Angelou dies at age 86 – CNN.com. Sad news this morning
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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, 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 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, 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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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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