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Michel Faber:
the power of words brought into extraordinary
focus.
Photograph: David Rose/Rex Feaures
The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber review – a moving study of the power of
language
G
Sunday 30 August
2015 15.00 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/30/
the-book-of-strange-new-things-michel-faber-review-moving-study-of-power-of-language
Deborah Eisenberg USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/
magazine/deborah-eisenberg-chronicler-of-american-insanity.html
Dana Spiotta USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/
magazine/the-quietly-subversive-fictions-of-dana-spiotta.html
Lawrence Osborne UK
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/feb/07/
lawrence-osborne-novelist-interview-graham-greene-thailand
http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/apr/13/
lawrence-osborne-acclaim-british-author-gambling-bangkok-novel
Marlon James JAM
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/
world/americas/marlon-james-jamaican-novelist-wins-man-booker-prize.html
Michel Faber NET
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/30/
the-book-of-strange-new-things-michel-faber-review-moving-study-of-power-of-language
Greg Hrbek USA
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/24/
437287806/not-on-fire-is-a-poignant-perplexing-twist-on-dystopia
Carl Phillips USA
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/29/
435492413/for-carl-phillips-poetry-is-experience-transformed-not-transcribed
Don DeLillo USA
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/03/
100-best-novels-underworld-don-delillo
Juan Felipe Herrera USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/
books/juan-felipe-herrera-of-california-to-be-next-poet-laureate.html
George the Poet
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/jul/15/
in-conversation-with-benjamin-zephaniah-and-george-the-poet-pocast
Benjamin Zephaniah
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/benjamin-zephaniah
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/jul/15/
in-conversation-with-benjamin-zephaniah-and-george-the-poet-pocast
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/07/
benjamin-zephaniah-coppers-were-standing-on-my-back-and-i-thought-ok-im-going-to-die-here
Linton Kwesi Johnson
JAM
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/07/
living-legend-linton-kwesi-johnson-wins-pen-pinter-prize
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/27/
linton-kwesi-johnson-brixton-windrush-myth-immigrants-didnt-want-fit-british-society-we-werent-allowed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkPS1YI1n0
video G 30 March
2012
Terrance Hayes USA

Terrance Hayes recording one of his poems
at the Museum of
Modern Art on March 12.
Photograph:
Larry Fink for The New York Times
Galaxies Inside His Head
Terrance Hayes uses poetry to show that there is more to him,
and to anyone, than what you expect.
NYT
MARCH 24, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/
magazine/galaxies-inside-his-head-poet-terrance-hayes.html
Clive James AUS / UK

By the time he was appearing
on What the Papers Say in 1972,
James was the Observer’s TV critic.
Photograph: ITV/REX
Clive James: ‘I’ve got a lot done since my death’
O
Sunday 15 March
2015 08.30 GMT
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/mar/15/clive-james-interview-done-lot-since-my-death
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/clive-james
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/mar/25/
sentenced-to-life-clive-james-poetry-collection-review
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2015/mar/15/
clive-james-reads-poem-early-to-bed-exclusive-video
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/mar/15/
clive-james-interview-done-lot-since-my-death
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2014/nov/27/
clive-james-its-awkward-im-still-alive
Renata Adler USA

Renata Adler, 1970.
Photograph: Duane Michals/DC Moore Gallery
‘After the Tall Timber’ Collects Renata Adler’s Nonfiction
NYT
MAY 15, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/
books/review/after-the-tall-timber-collects-renata-adlers-nonfiction.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/
books/review/after-the-tall-timber-collects-renata-adlers-nonfiction.html
Richard Price USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/
books/richard-price-finds-his-pseudonym-for-the-whites-annoying.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/
books/review/the-whites-by-richard-price-writing-as-harry-brandt.html
Nick Hornby UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Hornby
https://membership.theguardian.com/event/13304182167
Tom Robbins USA

Tom Robbins in 1976.
Mr. Robbins is known mostly for novels
like "Even Cowgirls Get
the Blues."
But his new book, "Tibetan Peach Pie,"
is a memoir.
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections,
UW36265
Inside a Conjurer of Characters
‘Tibetan Peach Pie,’ a Tom Robbins Memoir
NYT
MAY 20, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/books/tibetan-peach-pie-a-tom-robbins-memoir.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/
books/tibetan-peach-pie-a-tom-robbins-memoir.html
Sarah Waters
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/
books/the-paying-guests-by-sarah-waters-looks-at-1920s-britain.html
Lorrie Moore
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/
books/review/lorrie-moores-bark.html
Alice Hoffman USA

Alice Hoffman
Illustration by Jillian Tamaki
Alice Hoffman: By the Book NYT FEB. 20, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/books/review/alice-hoffman-by-the-book.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/
books/review/alice-hoffman-by-the-book.html
Zadie Smith UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/zadiesmith
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/10/
zadie-smith-yarls-wood-detention-centre-campaign
Alice Munro CAN
https://www.theguardian.com/books/alice-munro
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/books/review/
family-furnishings-selected-stories-by-alice-munro.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/06/
alice-munro-interview-nobel-prize-short-story-literature
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/books/
alice-munro-mining-the-inner-lives-of-girls-and-women.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/10/
alice-munro-nobel-literature-prize-margaret-atwood
Margaret Atwood CAN
https://www.theguardian.com/books/margaretatwood
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/09/
stephen-king-margaret-atwood-roxane-gay-champion-trans-rights-open-letter-jk-rowling
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/30/
444775853/now-is-not-the-time-for-realistic-fiction-says-margaret-atwood
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/05/
margaret-atwood-new-work-unseen-century-future-library
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/17/
doris-lessing-death-margaret-atwood-tribute
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/09/
blind-assassin-atwood-book-club
Susan Hill UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/susan-hill
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/25/
susan-hill-books-interview
Gillian Flynn
USA
https://www.npr.org/2012/05/14/
152289627/exclusive-first-read-gone-girl-by-gillian-flynn
Patrick Joseph Kavanagh UK
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/30/
david-nicholls-book-that-saved-him-pj-kavanagh-perfect-stranger-memoir-love
Louise Erdrich
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/louise-erdrich
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/us/
louise-erdrichs-novel-the-round-house-wins-national-book-award.html
Tim Lott
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/oct/24/
live-webchat-time-lott-writing-advice
Howard Jacobson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/howard-jacobson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/05/
howard-jacobson-bad-boys-books
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/12/
howard-jacobson-the-finkler-question-booker
Lawrence Norfolk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/07/
lawrence-norfolk-life-in-writing
Simon Stephens
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/aug/06/
morning-edinburgh-review
Russell Banks
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/russell-banks
Jonathan Franzen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/jonathan-franzen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/25/
jonathan-franzen-the-path-to-freedom
Andrew Miller
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/andrew-miller
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/25/
andrew-miller-interview
Anne Tyler
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/anne-tyler
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/13/
anne-tyler-interview
Chad Harbach
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/07/
art-of-fielding-baseball-novel
Alan Ayckbourn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/alanayckbourn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/sep/15/
alan-ayckbourn-neighbourhood-watch
Robert Coover
https://www.theguardian.com/books/robert-coover
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/27/
robert-coover-life-in-writing
Helen Oyeyemi
https://www.theguardian.com/books/helen-oyeyemi
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/26/
helen-oyeyemi-once-upon-a-life
Julia Donaldson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/julia-donaldson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/07/
gruffalo-julia-donaldson-new-children-s-laureate
Andrew Motion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/andrewmotion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/may/08/
incoming-theatre-review-andrew-motion
Mohsin Hamid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/may/01/
once-upon-a-life-mohsin-hamid
Elif Batuman
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/elif-batuman
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/21/
elif-batuman-bestseller-life
Bruce Norris
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/apr/19/
clybourne-park-wins-drama-pulitzer
James Frey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/james-frey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/19/
james-frey-final-testament-bible
George RR Martin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/george-rr-martin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/13/
george-rr-martin-game-thrones
Barbara Ehrenreich
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/
opinion/14ehrenreich.html
Martina Cole
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2011/mar/30/
martina-cole-erwin-james-the-runaway
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/28/
martina-cole-queen-of-crime
Tony Kushner
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/tony-kushner
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/
theater/25angels.html
Thomas McGuane
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/
books/review/Meloy-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/
books/21mcguane.html
Arundhati Roy
IND
http://www.theguardian.com/books/arundhatiroy
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/16/
interview-arunadha-roy-book
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/17/
india-rapes-damaged-divided-nation-hindu-nationalism
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/27/
arundhati-roy-fiction-takes-time-second-novel-ministry-utmost-happiness
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/02/
pankaj-mishra-arundhati-roy-hindu-nationalists-silence-writers-india
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/18/
arundhati-roy-accuses-mahatma-gandhi-discrimination
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/26/
arundhati-roy-kashmir-india
Anne Rice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/annerice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/24/
anne-rice-catholic-church-rejection-vampire
Colm Tóibín
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/colmtoibin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2010/sep/10/
colm-toibin-book-club
Randy Kearse
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/nyregion/
10books.html
Howard Brenton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/howardbrenton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/10/
howard-brenton-life-in-theatre
Eoin Colfer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/eoin-colfer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/17/
artemis-fowl-best-puffin-eoin-colfer
Polly Stenham
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/may/16/
polly-stenham-interview
Nick Cave
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2009/jul/13/
nick-cave-death-bunny-munro
Joe Hill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/13/
joe-hill-sympathy-for-the-devil
Sam Lipsyte
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/
books/review/Millet-t.html
Amy Bloom
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/
books/review/Gray-t.html
Jonathan Franzen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/jonathan-franzen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/25/jonathan-franzen-interview
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/opinion/21brooks.html
Don DeLillo
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/don_delillo/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/
books/04delillo.html
Christopher Reid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/29/
christopher-reid-poet-costa-winner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/26/
christopher-reid-costa-book-prize
Diana Athill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/diana-athill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/13/
diana-athill-memoirs-interview-tim-adams
Malcolm Gladwell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/malcolm-gladwell
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/books/20gladwell.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/books/review/05donadio.html
Jonathan Littell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/22/
history-holocaust-books-jonathan-littell
Douglas Coupland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/douglascoupland
Philip Hoare
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jul/03/
philip-hoare-leviathan
Petina Gappah
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jan/26/
pettina-gappah-dancing-champion
Martina Cole (born Eilidh Martina Cole)
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/31/
martina-cole-books
Walter Ellis Mosley
USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/07/29/
487601378/easy-writer-walter-mosleys-passion-for-bringing-black-l-a-stories-to-life
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal
Zephaniah JAM / UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/oct/01/
benjamin-zephaniah-poetry-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/21/
benjamin-zephaniah-interview
Will Elliott
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/06/03/
arts/entertainment-us-books-elliott.html
Julia Donaldson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2009/may/26/
hay-festival-julia-donaldson-gruffalo
David Peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/22/
fiction-david-peace-the-damned-utd
Richard Bean
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/richardbean
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jan/28/
richard-bean-taboo-playwright-theatre
Sherry Jones
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/29/jewel.of.medina.firebomb
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/29/publishing.civilliberties
Joseph O'Neill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/07/celebrity
Anne Enright
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/books/review/Benfey-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/books/08enri.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/oct/18/bookerprize2007.thebookerprize
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/oct/16/bookerprize2007.thebookerprize6
Edmund White
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/28/
theatre.stage
Naomi Klein
CAN
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/15/
100-best-nonfiction-books-number-3-no-logo-naomi-klein-
anti-corporate-capitalism-branding-brands
Harlan Coben
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/
opinion/l23spy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/
opinion/16coben.html
Philip Pullman
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/philippullman
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/22/
philip-pullman-my-daemon-is-a-raven-la-belle-sauvage-interview-questions
https://www.theguardian.com/books/video/2017/aug/17/
michael-sheen-reads-from-philip-pullmans-la-belle-sauvage
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/14/
515193632/author-philip-pullman-announces-a-follow-up-trilogy-to-his-dark-materials
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2016/may/21/
philip-pullmans-the-adventures-of-john-blake-the-mystery-of-the-ghost-ship
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2015/sep/25/
northern-lights-philip-pullman-graphic-novel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/13/philip-pullman-book-club
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/27/philip-pullman-defend-libraries-web
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/19/philip-pullman-interview-catholic-church
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/04/scoundrel-christ-pullman-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/30/american-library-association-banned-books
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2009/feb/22/art-philippullman
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/29/philip.pullman.amber.spyglass.golden.compass.banned
David Mamet
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/david-mamet
http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/
theater/reviews/glengarry-glen-ross-by-david-mamet-with-al-pacino.html
Hanif Kureishi
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/books/hanifkureishi
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/12/
enoch-powell-hanif-kureishi
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/29/
last-word-hanif-kureishi-review-lawson
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/19/
hanif-kureishi-interview-last-word
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/04/
hanif-kureishi-praise-adultery-week-end
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/03/
hanif-kureishi-victim-suspected-fraud
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2010/may/05/
hanif-kureishi
A.S. Byatt
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/profile/asbyatt
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/a-s-byatt
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/27/
the-shepherds-crown-terry-pratchett-review-discworld
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/world/europe/
10byatt.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jun/18/
book-club-possession-as-byatt
Edna O’Brien
IR
https://www.theguardian.com/books/edna-o-brien
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/
edna-obrien-90-ireland-greatest-writer-final-novel
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/jun/18/
the-country-girls-chichester-observer-review
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/jun/15/
country-girls-review-minerva-chichester-edna-o-brien-1960-novel-dublin
Dan Brown
USA
https://www.theguardian.com/books/danbrown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/15/
dan-brown-lost-symbol-sales
J.K. Rowling
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/jkrowling
https://www.theguardian.com/books/harrypotter
https://www.theguardian.com/film/harrypotter
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/j-k-rowling
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/10/
873472683/harry-potters-magic-fades-when-his-creator-tweets
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/26/
534445020/on-harry-potters-20th-anniversary-listen-to-his-npr-debut
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/
business/in-the-chamber-of-secrets-jk-rowlings-net-worth.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/
theater/why-jk-rowling-endorsed-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-for-the-stage.html
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/05/
jk-rowling-harry-potter-cursed-child-jack-thorne-john-tiffany-interview
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/
theater/jk-rowling-just-cant-let-harry-potter-go.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/08/
469663802/j-k-rowling-releases-part-1-of-new-magic-in-north-america-series
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/24/
jk-rowling-reveals-history-dursleys-harry-potter
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/17/
jk-rowling-second-novel-robert-galbraith
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/poll/2013/jul/31/
harry-potter-15-year-anniversary-poll
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/30/casual-vacancy-jk-rowling-digested-read
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/books/book-review-the-casual-vacancy-by-j-k-rowling.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/22/jk-rowling-book-casual-vacancy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/12/jk-rowling-growing-first
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/20/jk-rowling-hans-christian-andersen-prize
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/02/harry.potter.richest.authors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/24/richlists.jkrowling
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/nyregion/15rowling.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-03-23-rowling-report_N.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/dec/13/harrypotter.books
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/oct/21/film.books
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-07-20-potter_N.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/20/harrypotter.jkjoannekathleenrowling1
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/19/harrypotter.jkjoannekathleenrowling1
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/jul/18/retail.harrypotter
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jul/19/harrypotter.books
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/jul/15/harrypotter.books
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/mar/28/harrypotter.jkjoannekathleenrowling
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2006-07-24-potter-paperback_x.htm
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/may/15/books.harrypotter
Julian Barnes
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/julianbarnes
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/02/
julian-barnes-i-was-wrong-about-em-forster
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/06/
julian-barnes-leicester-city-premier-league-stupid-love
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/18/
julian-barnes-remembers-anita-brookner
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/02/
julian-barnes-art-doesnt-capture-thrill-of-life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/30/
julian-barnes-sense-of-another-ending
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/23/
through-the-window-julian-barnes-review
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2012/jul/15/
julian-barnes-shakespeare-helen-mirren
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/29/
my-life-as-bibliophile-julian-barnes
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/
books/julian-barnes-wins-the-man-booker-prize.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/18/
booker-prize-julian-barnes-wins
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/23/
biography.julianbarnes
Ian McEwan
UK

Ian McEwan in April 1976.
Photograph: John McGrath
Ian McEwan: when I was a monster
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/ianmcewan
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/
t-magazine/ian-mcewan-cotswolds-garden-annalena-mcafee.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/01/
ian-mcewan-nutshell-identity-politics
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/27/
nutshell-by-ian-mcewan-review
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ian-mcewan-author-nutshell-going-get-kicking
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/06/
biology-not-always-destiny-says-ian-mcewan-after-transgender-row
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/11/
the-children-act-ian-mcewan-review-novel
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/31/
ian-mcewan-children-act-interview-only-66-notebook-still-full-of-ideas-robert-mccrum
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/26/
ian-mcewan-cement-garden-sexual-gothic-old-age
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2013/jul/12/
ian-mcewan-sweet-tooth-podcast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/02/
sweet-tooth-ian-mcewan-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/10/
ian-mcewan-sweet-tooth-extract
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2012/apr/03/
ian-mcewan-interview-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/23/
originality-of-species-ian-mcewan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/
christopher-hitchens-appreciation-by-ian-mcewan
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/12/
familyandrelationships.elementsoffiction
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/
i-despise-islamism-ian-mcewan-faces-backlash-over-press-interview-852030.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/mar/24/
fiction.ianmcewan
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/apr/01/
scienceandnature.richarddawkins
Thomas Pynchon
USA
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jul/21/shopping.thomaspynchon
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/may/05/artsfeatures.fiction
Norton Juster
USA
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/14/
the-phantom-tollbooth-norton-juster-1961
Tobias Wolff
USA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/25/
tobias-wolff-edinburgh-book-festival
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jul/19/
fiction2
Paul Auster
USA
https://www.npr.org/books/authors/137951150/paul-auster
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/10/paulauster
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/
books/review/paul-auster-by-the-book.html
https://www.npr.org/2013/12/15/
250022407/a-personal-report-from-the-interior-of-author-paul-auster
https://www.npr.org/2012/08/23/
159915958/paul-auster-s-journal-of-his-body
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story/story.php?storyId=131196031 - November 10, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/
opinion/23auster.html
https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=5156266 - July 15, 2006
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/nov/12/
fiction.shopping
https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=4244994 - December 25, 2004
John Le Carré
pseudonym of David John Moore
Cornwell UK
1931-2020

'I do give a damn'
After years of writing superior spy thrillers,
author David Cornwell, aka John
Le Carré,
has evolved into an impassioned political commentator.
The film of his novel The Constant Gardener
- which opens this year's London
film festival -
is a searing indictment of Britain's recent record in Africa.
In a rare interview, he talks to Stuart Jeffries about his 'radical period'
The Guardian G2
pp. 10-11 Thursday October 6, 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/oct/06/
fiction.johnlecarre
https://www.theguardian.com/books/johnlecarre
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2009/nov/01/
profile-john-le-carre
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/18/
le-carre-death-loss-public-figures-intimate-mourn-mourning
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/18/
john-le-carre-didnt-invent-the-spy-novel-he-joined-a-tradition-and-made-it-new-again
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/
books/john-le-carre-critics-appraisal.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/
john-le-carre-remembered-margaret-atwood-john-banville-ian-rankin
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/14/
john-le-carre-on-film-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/dec/14/
john-le-carre-a-life-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/
john-le-carre-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/
john-le-carre-author-of-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-dies-aged-89
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/
books/john-le-carre-dead.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/11/
john-le-carre-truth-was-what-you-got-away-with
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/05/
john-le-carre-eric-hobsbawm-tinker-tailor-marxist-academic
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/10/
john-le-carre-agent-running-in-the-field
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/22/
john-le-carre-letter-british-politics
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/
547992458/in-a-legacy-of-spies-john-le-carr-goes-back-out-in-the-cold
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/16/
john-le-carre-biography-own-story-adam-sisman
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/08/
the-pigeon-tunnel-john-le-carre-review-memoir-autobiography
https://www.theguardian.com/books/video/2016/sep/03/
simon-russell-beale-reads-from-john-le-carres-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-video
http://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2016/sep/03/
hes-very-sexy-tom-hiddleston-simon-russell-beale-and-other-actors-on-le-carre
https://www.theguardian.com/books/video/2016/sep/03/
damian-lewis-reads-john-le-carres-our-kind-of-traitor-video
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2016/sep/03/
tinker-tailor-writer-spy-the-many-lives-of-john-le-carre-in-his-own-words
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/02/
john-le-carre-beaten-by-father-abandoned-by-mother-the-pigeon-tunnel-memoir
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/
books/review/john-le-carre-the-biography-and-frederick-forsyths-the-outsider.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/24/
john-le-carre-lefty-adam-sisman
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/
movies/john-le-carre-on-philip-seymour-hoffman.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/
magazine/john-le-carre-has-not-mellowed-with-age.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/19/
delicate-truth-le-carre-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/12/
john-le-carre-spy-anniversary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/12/
salman-rushdie-john-le-carre
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/16/
le-carre-spy-spooks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/30/
john-le-carre-booker-honour
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/23/
john-le-carre-archive-bodleian
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/oct/06/fiction.johnlecarre
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4817316 - Aug. 26, 2005
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4773621 - Jul. 27, 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/13/uselections2004.usa13
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1643439 - Feb. 4, 2004
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/oct/05/features2
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/oct/05/features1
Patrick McGrath
UK

The Guardian Weekend
p. 3 Saturday September 3, 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/sep/03/
fiction.features
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/sep/03/fiction.features
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/21/fiction.features2
Martin Amis
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/martinamis
http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/martin-amis
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/19/
inside-story-by-martin-amis-review-a-curious-mashup-of-fiction-and-memoir
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/12/
martin-amis-i-was-horrified-that-trump-got-in-now-its-looking-scary
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/
books/review/there-is-simply-too-much-to-think-about-saul-bellows-nonfiction.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/15/
martin-amis-arguing-prince-charles-rushdie-fatwa
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/17/
martin-amis-white-skin-english-attribute-multiculturalism
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2014/feb/22/
martin-amis-on-guns-america-and-the-curse-of-heredity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/14/
martin-amis-kingsley-regrets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/12/
martin-amis-katie-price-lionel-asbo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/10/
lionel-asbo-martin-amis-digested
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/03/
martin-amis-brooklyn-lionel-asbo-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/24/amis-hitchens-world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/19/pass-notes-martin-amis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/26/delilah-jeary-martin-amis-father
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/13/martin-amis-kinglsey-amis-newspapers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2010/feb/01/book-club-martin-amis-times-arrow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/01/martin-amis-interview-pregnant-widow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/jan/10/profile-martin-amis-andrew-anthony
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/14/vladimir-nabokov-books-martin-amis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/17/martin-amis-iran
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jun/03/martin-amis-gossip-work
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/
i-despise-islamism-ian-mcewan-faces-backlash-over-press-interview-852030.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/books/08kaku.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/12/religion.news
http://www.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,,2213223,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2189868,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2189257,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2187641,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-4,00.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/24/artsandhumanities.highereducation
William Woodard Self
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/willself
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/
will-self-novel-dead-literary-fiction
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/
books/umbrella-by-will-self.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/05/
will-self-umbrella-booker-interview
Kiran Desai
IND
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/feb/05/
immigration.eu
Jonathan Earl Franzen
USA
http://www.theguardian.com/books/jonathan-franzen
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/oct/07/
featuresreviews.guardianreview2
William McGuire "Bill" Bryson
USA
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/sep/02/
billbryson.biography
Mark Haddon
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/13/mark.haddon
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/may/29/hayfestival2006.hayfestival
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/apr/11/booksforchildrenandteenagers.features3
Alan Bennett
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/alanbennett
https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2016/sep/27/
alan-bennetts-diaries-trailer-adam-low-video
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/may/25/
enjoy-alan-bennett-review-revival-lacks-punch
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/may/06/
alan-bennett-edward-snowden-nsa
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/
johann-hari-alan-bennett-and-the-question-of-innocence-1828408.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/nov/18/
alan-bennett-the-habit-of-art
Kathy O'Beirne
IR
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/sep/23/books.booksnews
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/20/booksnews.ireland
Margaret Drabble
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/margaret-drabble
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/02/
margaret-drabble-novelist
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/dec/27/
waste-recycling
Bret Easton Ellis
https://www.theguardian.com/books/breteastonellis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/13/
bret-easton-ellis-gay-criticism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2010/jul/26/
bret-easton-ellis-guardian-book-club
James Ellroy
USA

The Guardian G2
p. 16 16 March 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/jamesellroy
http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-64,00.html
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/may/18/
destination-morgue-james-ellroy-los-angeles-crime-scene-secrets-in-pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/09/james-ellroy-david-peace-conversation
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/28/news
Armistead Maupin
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/sep/14/
fiction.armisteadmaupin
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/13/
armistead.maupin
Joyce Carol Oates
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/27/edward-kennedy-usa
Don DeLillo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/dondelillo
Cormac McCarthy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/cormac-mccarthy
Ben Okri
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/12/
benokri
Irvine Welsh
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/books/irvinewelsh
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/03/
irvine-welsh-interview-blade-artist-trainspotting-porno-begbie
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/15/
irvine-welsh-writer-trainspotting-skagboys
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/jul/20/
theatre.stage
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/07/
fiction.irvinewelsh
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/oct/20/
penal.crime
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/aug/22/
books.edinburghbookfestival2001
Mary Higgins Clark USA
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/18/
571579641/prolific-suspense-writer-mary-higgins-clark-turns-90-on-christmas-eve
Toni Morrison
USA
Edward Bond UK
Wole Soyinka
NIGERIA
https://www.theguardian.com/books/wolesoyinka
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/11/wolesoyinka
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jan/13/
wole-soyinka-uganda-election-africa
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/06/
wole-soyinka-protests-imprisonment-of-nigerian-humanist-mubarak-bala
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/29/
wole-soyinka-interview-nigeria-corruption-goodluck-jonathan
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/12/
wole-soyinka-nigeria-needs-new-leaders-tackle-boko-haram
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/11/
wolesoyinka
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/jun/29/
internationaleducationnews.highereducation
Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul
TRI
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/13/biography.features
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/sep/01/fiction.reviews1
John Irving
USA

Grappling with life
John Irving
Raised in New Hampshire,
his early passions were writing and wrestling.
One of the few successful practitioners
of the big, multi-layered novel –
Dickens is his inspiration –
he has scrutinised America's 'vast issues'
through the prism of his own complex
history.
Recent revelations about his long-estranged father
have added poignancy to his
latest work.
Interview by Nicholas Wroe
The Guardian > Review pp. 12-13
13 August 2005
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/13/fiction.johnirving
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/
books/review/kevin-wilson-perfect-little-world.html
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/03/
453986815/john-irving-always-knows-where-hes-going
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/
books/review-in-john-irvings-avenue-of-mysteries-
a-blur-of-aphorisms-and-magical-events.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/13/
john.irving
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/13/
fiction.johnirving
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/20/
fiction.johnirving
Joan Didion
USA

Literary hero ... Joan Didion pictured in May, 1977.
Photograph: AP Photo
Readers' favourite books by women
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2015 14.04 GMT
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/mar/06/international-womens-day-readers-favourite-books-by-women
https://www.theguardian.com/books/joan-didion
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/
559511855/joan-didion-the-center-will-not-hold-plays-it-as-it-lays
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/25/
south-west-from-notebook-joan-didion-review#img-1
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/mar/06/
international-womens-day-readers-favourite-books-by-women
Anya Christine Krugovoy
USA 1968-2018
poet who,
after receiving a diagnosis
of advanced breast cancer
in 2004,
wrote lyrical verse
that gave readers
an exquisite, intimate
and sometimes angry account
of her illness
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/
obituaries/anya-krugovoy-silver-poetic-voice-on-mortality-dies-at-49.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/
obituaries/anya-krugovoy-silver-poetic-voice-on-mortality-dies-at-49.html
Donald Andrew Hall Jr.
USA 1928-2018
poet laureate
of the United States
whose writing
explored everything
from nature to mortality
to the toss of a baseball
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/24/
623033688/donald-hall-former-poet-laureate-dies-at-89
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/24/
623033688/donald-hall-former-poet-laureate-dies-at-89
Thomas Bernard Patrick Murphy
IR 1935-2018
influential
Irish playwright
known for dark tales
told with a rustic
musicality
(...)
Mr. Murphy
wrote dozens of plays
across a half-century.
Garry Hynes,
artistic director
of Druid Theater Company,
which has produced
many of those plays,
said he ranks with Brian Friel
as one of Ireland’s
greatest contemporary
playwrights,
though he was not
as well known internationally,
partly because he ventured
into more difficult
emotional terrain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/
obituaries/tom-murphy-acclaimed-irish-playwright-is-dead-at-83.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/
obituaries/tom-murphy-acclaimed-irish-playwright-is-dead-at-83.html
Tom Wolfe
USA 1931-2018
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/tom-wolfe
https://www.theguardian.com/books/tomwolfe
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/
books/review/tom-wolfe-cartoons.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/
style/tom-wolfe-style.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/15/
tom-wolfe-journalist-and-author-dies-aged-87
https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2018/may/15/
tom-wolfe-a-life-in-pictures
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/15/
611309448/tom-wolfe-writing-nonfiction-became-a-great-game-and-a-great-experiment
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/15/
471414238/tom-wolfe-best-selling-author-and-genre-breaking-journalist-dies-at-87
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/
books/tom-wolfe-appraisal.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/
obituaries/tom-wolfe-pyrotechnic-nonfiction-writer-and-novelist-dies-at-88.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/
books/tom-wolfes-kingdom-of-speech-takes-aim-at-darwin-and-chomsky.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/14/
100-best-nonfiction-no-7-right-stuff-tom-wolfe
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/may/02/
tom-wolfe-electric-kool-aid-acid-test
https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/
specials/wolfe-bonfire.html
Ursula
K. Le Guin (born Ursula Kroeber)
USA 1929-2018
immensely popular author
who brought literary depth
and a tough-minded
feminist
sensibility
to science fiction
and
fantasy
with books like
“The Left Hand of
Darkness”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/
obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/
obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html
Julius Bernard Lester
USA 1939-2018
captivating
and often polarizing
American writer
whose odyssey
through a
labyrinth
of religious
and ethnic
identities
caused him
to be labeled
a militant black separatist
and a race traitor,
as well as
an anti-Semite
and,
after his conversion
to
Judaism,
a vociferous Zionist
(...)
A prolific author,
Mr. Lester had more
than
four dozen books
for adults and children
to
his credit.
He was also variously
a literary and cultural
critic,
folklorist, photographer,
civil rights worker
and professional musician.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/
obituaries/julius-lester-chronicler-of-black-america-is-dead-at-79.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/
obituaries/julius-lester-chronicler-of-black-america-is-dead-at-79.html
James Patrick Donleavy
Jr. USA
1926-2017
expatriate
American author
whose 1955 novel
“The Ginger
Man”
shook up
the literary world
with its combination
of
sexual frankness
and outrageous humor
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/
books/jp-donleavy-acclaimed-author-of-the-ginger-man-dies-at-91.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/
books/a-toast-for-j-p-donleavy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/
books/jp-donleavy-acclaimed-author-of-the-ginger-man-dies-at-91.html
Donald Sutherland Bain
USA 1935-2017
pseudonymous author
of the “Murder, She Wrote”
novels,
Margaret Truman’s
“Capital
Crimes” mysteries
and “Coffee, Tea or Me?,”
the supposed memoir
of two saucy airline
stewardesses
(...)
Although he had aspired
to a conspicuous role
as a broadcasting
personality or a musician,
Mr. Bain relished
writing
incognito.
Over five decades
as a
ghostwriter
he published
novels,
biographies,
westerns
and historical
romances,
mostly under
fictitious
names
or credited to more
marketable bylines;
vanity memoirs attributed
to corporate executives;
and even long articles
disguised as excerpts
from nonexistent
books.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/
obituaries/donald-bain-dead-widely-read-author-but-not-by-that-name.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/
obituaries/donald-bain-dead-widely-read-author-but-not-by-that-name.html
John Ashbery
USA 1927-2017
poet whose teasing,
delicate, soulful lines
made him one
of the most
influential figures
of late-20th and
early-21st-century
American literature
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/
arts/john-ashbery-dead-prize-winning-poet.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/
opinion/john-ashbery-poet.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/
arts/john-ashbery-dead-prize-winning-poet.html
Brian Wilson Aldiss
UK 1925-2017
former bookseller
whose horrific childhood
and wartime exploits in
Burma
kindled a fecund imagination
that animated scores of
novels,
anthologies, memoirs
and
short stories,
like the one that inspired
the Steven Spielberg
science fiction film “A.I.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/
books/brian-aldiss-author-of-science-fiction-and-much-more-dies-at-92.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/
books/brian-aldiss-author-of-science-fiction-and-much-more-dies-at-92.html
John Henley Heathcote
Williams USA
1941-2017
poet, playwright,
actor,
lyricist, painter,
sculptor,
magician
and relentless scourge
of the British establishment
for half a century
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/
books/heathcote-williams-radical-british-poet-
who-helped-form-anarchist-nation-dies-at-75.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/
books/heathcote-williams-radical-british-poet-
who-helped-form-anarchist-nation-dies-at-75.html
Edith Marion Marcombe
USA 1916-2017
an American poet
whose work
was profoundly
influenced
by the half-century
she
spent in Japan
(...)
The author of nearly
two
dozen volumes of poetry,
Ms. Shiffert was published
in The New Yorker and
— at midcentury,
when newspapers routinely
printed poems —
in The New York Times
and
elsewhere.
She was also known
as a
writer on,
and translator of,
Japanese
poetry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/
arts/edith-shiffert-a-poet-inspired-by-nature-and-her-life-in-japan-dies-at-101.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/
arts/edith-shiffert-a-poet-inspired-by-nature-and-her-life-in-japan-dies-at-101.html
William Melvin Kelley
Jr. USA
1937-2017
William Melvin Kelley
(...)
brought a fresh,
experimental voice
to black fiction
in novels and stories
that
used recurring characters
to explore race relations
and racial identity
in the United States
(...)
Mr. Kelley
blended fantasy and fact
to construct an alternative
world
whose sweep and complexity
drew comparisons
to James Joyce
and William
Faulkner.
Minor characters
in one
story or novel
might appear later
as larger
figures,
their stories elaborated
in
greater detail
— and, in his later fiction,
in language that recalled
the linguistic
experimentation
of Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/
books/william-melvin-kelley-who-explored-race-in-experimental-novels-is-dead-at-79.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/
books/william-melvin-kelley-who-explored-race-in-experimental-novels-
is-dead-at-79.html
Bette Howland /
Bette Lee Sotonoff USA
1937-2017
Bette Howland
(...)
wrote three
well-regarded books
in the 1970s and
early ’80s,
then faded from
the literary scene
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/
obituaries/bette-howland-author-and-protege-of-bellows-dies-at-80.html
Howland’s career
was short,
spectacular,
perplexing.
She was a
37-year-old
single mother of
two
when she
published her first book,
“W-3,” in 1974,
a memoir of a
suicide attempt
and time spent
in a psychiatric
hospital.
In the span of a
decade,
she wrote two
celebrated
books of short
fiction
and was awarded
a MacArthur
“genius” grant,
which was
followed
by prolonged
silence.
She never
published
a book again.
Long before her
death in 2017,
she’d slipped
into obscurity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/
books/review-w-3-memoir-bette-howland.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/
books/review-w-3-memoir-bette-howland.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/
obituaries/bette-howland-author-and-protege-of-bellows-dies-at-80.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/02/
archives/as-told-to-the-coughing-machine-books-of-the-times-epiphany-for.html
William Trevor
IR 1926-2016
https://www.theguardian.com/books/william-trevor
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/19/
last-stories-william-trevor-review-julian-barnes
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/
books/review/last-stories-william-trevor.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/21/
william-trevor-obituary
Joyce Carol Thomas
USA 1938-2016
poet, playwright
and award-winning
children’s
writer
whose work portrayed
the
complexities
of African-American rural
life,
a subject simplified
in
young-adult fiction
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/
books/joyce-carol-thomas-who-wrote-of-african-american-life-dies-at-78.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/
books/joyce-carol-thomas-who-wrote-of-african-american-life-dies-at-78.html
Geoffrey William Hill
UK 1932-2016
poet regularly hailed
as the greatest
in the
English language
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/01/
geoffrey-hill-one-of-the-greatest-english-poets-dies-aged-84
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/geoffrey-hill
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/
books/geoffrey-hill-dense-and-allusive-british-poet-is-dead-at-84.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/01/
geoffrey-hill-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/01/
geoffrey-hill-one-of-the-greatest-english-poets-dies-aged-84
Jenny Diski / Jennifer
Jane Simmonds UK
1947-2016
British writer
who channeled
the turmoil
of her early
years,
which included
suicide
attempts
and confinement
in mental
hospitals,
into a stream
of richly
observed
and mordant novels,
memoirs
and essays
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/books/jenny-diskiauthor-who-wrote-ofmadness-and-isolation-dies-at-68.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/
jenny-diski
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/
books/jenny-diskiauthor-who-wrote-ofmadness-and-isolation-dies-at-68.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/28/
jenny-diski-obituary
Erwin Nathanson
USA 1928-2016
E. M. Nathanson ('s)
best-selling 1965 novel
“The
Dirty Dozen”
became the basis of one
of the most enduring,
if
preposterous,
World War II movies to come
out of Hollywood
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/arts/em-nathanson-88-author-of-the-dirty-dozen.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/
arts/em-nathanson-88-author-of-the-dirty-dozen.html
James Thomas Harrison
USA 1937-2016
Jim Harrison 's) lust for
life
— and sometimes just plain
lust —
roared into print in a vast,
celebrated body of fiction,
poetry and essays
that with
ardent abandon
explored the natural world,
the life of the mind
and the pleasures of the
flesh
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/
arts/jim-harrison-free-spirited-writer-dies-at-78.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/
books/an-appraisal-taking-big-bites-of-jim-harrisons-voracious-life.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/
arts/jim-harrison-free-spirited-writer-dies-at-78.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/27/
469817873/legends-of-the-fall-author-who-found-freedom-outdoors-dies-at-78
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/
books/review/the-big-seven-by-jim-harrison.html
Anita Brookner UK 1928-2016
Donald Patrick Conroy
USA 1945-2016
Pat Conroy ('s)
tortured family life
and the scenic marshlands
of coastal South
Carolina
served as unending sources
of inspiration for
his fiction,
notably the novels
“The Great Santini,”
“The Lords of Discipline”
and “The Prince of
Tides”
(...)
Mr. Conroy
had a brutal childhood.
He was dominated
by his sadistic father,
Donald,
a Marine Corps fighter pilot
who beat
his wife,
drilled his seven children
military-style to
instill discipline
and mercilessly abused his sons,
first and
foremost Pat, his eldest.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/
books/pat-conroy-who-wove-his-family-strife-into-novels-of-carolina-dies-at-70.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/05/
469299811/author-pat-conroy-dies-at-70
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/
books/pat-conroy-who-wove-his-family-strife-into-novels-of-carolina-dies-at-70.html
Margaret Forster
UK 1938-2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/
books/margaret-forster-author-of-georgy-girl-and-more-dies-at-77.html
Warren Burton Murphy
USA 1933-2015
“Everyone knew
why Remo Williams
was going to
die,”
was how Warren Murphy
and Dick Sapir
began “Created the Destroyer,”
their first gritty thriller,
in 1963.
For eight more years, though,
both the character
Remo Williams,
a brash former
Newark police officer,
and Mr. Murphy’s
literary career hovered
between life and death.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/
books/warren-murphy-writer-and-creator-of-remo-williams-dies-at-82.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/
books/warren-murphy-writer-and-creator-of-remo-williams-dies-at-82.html
Gabrielle Diane Bridget Baker
USA 1939-2015
feminist novelist,
memoirist and screenwriter
who considered
conventional marriage lopsided
but identified with
the pioneering Donner
Party wife
who perished protecting
her husband
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/
books/gabrielle-burton-feminist-novelist-and-screenwriter-dies-at-76.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/
books/gabrielle-burton-feminist-novelist-and-screenwriter-dies-at-76.html
Rhoda Carol Sniderman
USA 1936-2015
Rhoda Lerman ('s)
critically praised novels
melded history
with contemporaneity,
mythology
with social criticism,
feminism
with a Jewish sensibility
and snark
with seriousness
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/
arts/rhoda-lerman-writer-who-defied-labels-dies-at-79.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/
arts/rhoda-lerman-writer-who-defied-labels-dies-at-79.html
Oliver Sacks
UK 1933-2015

Oliver Sacks at home, March 2015.
Credi Bill Hayes
Oliver Sacks’s Final, Posthumous Work
April 30, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/
books/review/everything-in-its-place-oliver-sacks.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/oliver-sacks
https://www.npr.org/2015/08/30/
436107500/a-view-on-oliver-sacks-from-a-longtime-friend-and-colleague
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/08/30/
436016985/oliver-sacks-was-a-boundless-explorer-of-the-human-brain
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/
books/review/everything-in-its-place-oliver-sacks.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/08/31/
436289763/oliver-sacks-a-neurologist-at-the-intersection-of-fact-and-fable
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/30/
oliver-sacks
Cynthia Lee
USA 1928-2015
Cynthia Macdonald ('s)
idiosyncratic blend
of humor and the grotesque
made her a distinctive voice
on the American
poetry scene
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/
books/cynthia-macdonald-poet-known-for-humor-and-ability-to-shock-dies-at-87.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/
books/cynthia-macdonald-poet-known-for-humor-and-ability-to-shock-dies-at-87.html
David Gordon Nobbs
UK 1935-2015
British novelist
and comedy writer best known
for “The Fall and Rise
of Reginald
Perrin,”
the dark BBC sitcom
of the 1970s
that won an ardent following
on both sides of the Atlantic
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/
arts/television/david-nobbs-novelist-and-creator-of-reginald-perrin-dies-at-80.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/
arts/television/david-nobbs-novelist-and-creator-of-reginald-perrin-dies-at-80.html
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
USA 1931-2015
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leading figure
in contemporary American
letters
whose popular, critically admired
and
award-winning novels
— including “Ragtime,”
“Billy Bathgate”
and
“The March” —
situated fictional characters
in recognizable
historical contexts,
among identifiable historical figures
and often within unconventional
narrative
forms
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/
books/el-doctorow-author-of-historical-fiction-dies-at-84.html
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/e-l-doctorow
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/
books/el-doctorow-author-of-historical-fiction-dies-at-84.html
James Vincent Tate
USA 1943-2015
poet whose offhand style,
ingenious wordplay
and wild flights of
surrealism
won him a devoted following,
a Pulitzer Prize
and a National Book Award
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/
books/james-tate-prolific-pulitzer-winning-poet-dies-at-71.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/
books/james-tate-prolific-pulitzer-winning-poet-dies-at-71.html
James Arnold Horowitz /
James Salter USA
1925-2015
James Salter ('s)
intimately detailed novels
and short stories
kept a small but devoted
audience
in his thrall
for more than half a century
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/
books/james-salter-a-writers-writer-short-on-sales-but-long-on-acclaim-dies-at-90.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/
books/james-salter-a-writers-writer-short-on-sales-
but-long-on-acclaim-dies-at-90.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/11/
james-salter-forgotten-hero-literature-interview
John Alfred Williams
USA 1925-2015
writer
whose exploration of black identity,
notably in the 1967 novel
“The Man Who Cried I
Am,”
established him
as one of the bright lights
in what he liked to call
“the second Harlem
Renaissance,”
and who caused a furor
with an unflattering
biography
of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/
arts/john-a-williams-an-underrated-novelist-who-wrote-about-black-identity-dies-at-89.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/
arts/john-a-williams-an-underrated-novelist-
who-wrote-about-black-identity-dies-at-89.html
Theodore William Weesner
USA 1935-2015
novelist
who mined his wayward youth
for the stuff of his celebrated first novel,
“The Car Thief,”
and whose half-dozen
other books earned
plaudits
for their patient, realistic narratives
and humanely considered characters
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/
books/theodore-weesner-author-of-the-car-thief-dies-at-79.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/
books/theodore-weesner-author-of-the-car-thief-dies-at-79.html
James Salter (born James Horowitz)
USA 1925-2015
James Salter ('s)
intimately detailed
novels and short stories
kept a small
but devoted audience in his
thrall
for more than half a century
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/
books/james-salter-a-writers-writer-short-on-sales-but-long-on-acclaim-dies-at-90.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/
books/james-salter-a-writers-writer-short-on-sales-but-long-on-acclaim-dies-at-90.html
Ruth Barbara Rendell UK 1930-2015
prolific and hugely popular writer
of intricately plotted mystery novels
that combined psychological insight,
social
conscience and,
not infrequently,
teeth-chattering terror
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/books/ruth-rendell-novelist-who-thrilled-and-educated-dies-at-85.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/ruth-rendell
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/02/
ruth-rendell-obituary-crime-writer
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/
books/ruth-rendell-novelist-who-thrilled-and-educated-dies-at-85.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/02/
no-one-can-equal-ruth-rendells-range-or-accomplishment-crime-writer
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/02/
ruth-rendell-writer-dies-aged-85
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/05/02/
403776298/novelist-ruth-rendell-author-of-wexford-books-dies-at-85
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/02/
ruth-rendell-in-quotes
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/02/
ruth-rendell-five-key-works
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/13/
arthurconandoyle.crime
Ivan Doig
USA 1939-2015
Terry Pratchett UK
1948-2015
Philip Levine
USA 1928-2015
Robert Stone USA
1937-2015
André Brink
SA 1935-2015
towering South African
literary presence for
decades
whose work
in English and Afrikaans
fell afoul
of apartheid-era censors
(...)
Mr. Brink’s work
was often cited alongside
that of Nadine Gordimer
and J. M. Coetzee
as an exemplar
of South Africa’s
ability to
transform
the experience
of harsh racial politics
into
literature
with a global reach.
(...)
The language of many
of his early works
was
Afrikaans,
the mother-tongue
of the Afrikaner minority
whose leaders
came to power in 1948
and set the country
on the path to policies
of social engineering
and racial division
that ended formally
with the first free
election
in 1994,
which brought Nelson Mandela
to power.
Mr. Brink
belonged to a group
of Afrikaans writers known
as Die Sestigers,
meaning roughly the generation
of the 1960s.
According to Hermann Giliomee,
a prominent
historian, the group
“embraced secularization, modernity,
racial tolerance and sexual freedom,
and used modern literary techniques
and subject matter to explore
these themes.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/books/andre-brink-south-african-literary-figure-who-ran-afoul-of-censors-dies-at-79.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/
books/andre-brink-south-african-literary-figure-
who-ran-afoul-of-censors-dies-at-79.html
Colleen Margaretta McCullough
AUS 1937-2015
former neurophysiological
researcher at Yale
who,
deciding to write novels
in her spare time,
produced
“The Thorn Birds,”
a multigenerational
Australian romance
that became
an international best seller
and inspired a hugely popular
television
mini-series
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/books/colleen-mccullough-author-of-the-thorn-birds-dies-at-77.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/
books/colleen-mccullough-author-of-the-thorn-birds-dies-at-77.html
Rodney Marvin McKuen
USA 1933-2015
ubiquitous poet,
lyricist and songwriter
whose work met
with immense
commercial success
if little critical esteem
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/arts/rod-mckuen-prolific-poet-and-lyricist-dies-at-81.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/
arts/rod-mckuen-prolific-poet-and-lyricist-dies-at-81.html
Stanley Miller Williams
USA 1930-2014
poet who championed
the power of everyday
language
and who delivered
a poem at the Capitol
for President Bill Clinton’s
second
inauguration
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/arts/miller-williams-laconic-arkansas-poet-dies-at-84.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/
arts/miller-williams-laconic-arkansas-poet-dies-at-84.html
Zilpha Keatley
USA 1927-2014
Zilpha Keatley Snyder (...)
mined memories of little demons
at the foot of her childhood bed
to spin tales of wonder,
mystery and suspense
that beguiled two generations
of children and
young adults
in nearly 50 books
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/books/zilpha-keatley-snyder-author-of-eerie-childrens-tales-dies-at-87.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/books/
zilpha-keatley-snyder-author-of-eerie-childrens-tales-dies-at-87.html
Charles Clyde Bowden
USA 1945-2014

Charles Bowden in 2013.
Photograph: Molly Molloy
Charles Bowden, Author With Unblinking Eye on Southwest, Dies
at 69
By WILLIAM YARDLEY NYT
SEPT. 3, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/books/charles-bowden-lyrical-writer-dies-at-69.html
author and journalist
acclaimed for his vivid, unsparing
and often lyrical portrayals
of life
in the Southwest,
particularly the brutality on the border
between the United States and Mexico
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/books/charles-bowden-lyrical-writer-dies-at-69.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/
books/charles-bowden-lyrical-writer-dies-at-69.html
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
USA 1916-2014
award-winning
mystery author
whose fascination
with motivation, morality
and manners
— more
than violence —
powered the intricate plots
of the suspense
novels
she wrote over a half-century
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/arts/dorothy-salisbury-davis-suspense-novelist-dies-at-98.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/
arts/dorothy-salisbury-davis-suspense-novelist-dies-at-98.html
Thomas Louis Berger
USA 1924-2014
reclusive and bitingly
satirical novelist
who explored the myths
of the American West
in
“Little Big Man”
and the mores
of 20th-century
middle-class
society
in a shelf
of other well-received books
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/books/thomas-berger-little-big-man-author-is-dead-at-89.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/
books/thomas-berger-little-big-man-author-is-dead-at-89.html
Nadine Gordimer
SA 1923-2014
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
(...)
Ms. Gordimer
did not originally
choose
apartheid
as her subject
as a young writer, she said,
but she found it
impossible to dig deeply
into South African life
without striking
repression.
And once
the Afrikaner nationalists
came to
power in 1948,
the scaffolds
of the apartheid system
began to
rise around her
and could not be ignored.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/books/nadine-gordimer-novelist-and-apartheid-foe-dies-at-90.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/nadinegordimer
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/books/
nadine-gordimer-novelist-and-apartheid-foe-dies-at-90.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/14/
nadine-gordimer-dies-90-johannesburg-nobel-prize
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/14/nadine-gordimer
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/14/nadine-gordimer-a-life-in-quotes
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2014/jul/14/nadine-gordimer-a-life-in-pictures
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2006-10-28-gordimer_x.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/01/home/gordimer-july.html
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/01/home/gordimer-sport.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/11/books/gordimer-bourg.html
Dermot Healy
IR
1947-2014
The Irish writer
Dermot Healy (...)
was once described
by Seamus Heaney
as "the heir
to Patrick Kavanagh".
If Healy's poetry
was steeped
in the same rural tradition
as Kavanagh's,
his novels evoked
a more fractured
interior
world,
with characters
who often seemed
haunted
or on the verge
of psychological
disintegration.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/30/dermot-healy
http://www.theguardian.com/books/dermot-healy
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/30/
dermot-healy
Maya Angelou (born
Marguerite Johnson) USA
1928-2014
(her) landmark
book of 1969,
“I Know Why
the Caged Bird
Sings”
— which describes
in
lyrical,
unsparing prose
her childhood
in the Jim
Crow South —
was among
the first
autobiographies
by a 20th-century
black
woman
to reach
a wide general
readership
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/arts/maya-angelou-lyrical-witness-of-the-jim-crow-south-dies-at-86.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/mayaangelou
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/arts/
in-a-commanding-literary-voice-singing-out-to-the-world.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/arts/
maya-angelou-lyrical-witness-of-the-jim-crow-south-dies-at-86.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/28/maya-angelou
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/28/maya-angelou-poet-author-dies-86
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/
looking-back-at-maya-angelous-life-and-work-in-the-times-and-on-twitter/
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/30/maya-angelou-terrible-wonderful-mother
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/14/maya-angelou-interview
Susan Lillian Townsend
UK 1946-2014
Sue Townsend (...)
was one of Britain’s
most
celebrated
comic writers:
novelist, playwright
and
journalist.
She was best known
for the
fictional diaries
of Adrian Mole,
a character who,
unlike
Peter Pan,
is allowed to grow up,
evolving from
the
penis-measuring
adolescent who confides
“I was racked
with sexuality
but it wore off
when I helped my father
put
manure
on our rose bed”
in The Secret Diary
of
Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
(1982)
to the middle-aged and,
Townsend liked to insist,
more evolved
and
better-dressed bloke
who survives prostate cancer
in Adrian Mole:
The
Prostrate Years
(2009).
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/11/sue-townsend-1946-2014
http://www.theguardian.com/books/sue-townsend
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/11/sue-townsend-1946-2014
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/13/in-praise-of-sue-townsend
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/13/sue-townsend-janet-fillingham-agent-appreciation
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/13/adrian-mole-sue-townsend-welfare
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/11/sue-townsend-lone-voice-humanist-genius
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/apr/11/sue-townsend-plays-adrian-mole-theatre
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/11/
5-political-lessons-learned-from-sue-townsends-adrian-mole-books
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/11/sue-townsend-1946-2014
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/11/sue-townsend-dies-aged-68-adrian-mole
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2011/jan/10/sue-townsend-adrian-mole-book-club
Mavis Gallant (born Mavis de Trafford Young) 1922-2014
acclaimed short-story writer
who was abandoned as a child
and later left Canada for
Europe,
where she made her name
writing
about the dislocated
and the
dispossessed
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/books/mavis-gallant-short-story-writer-dies-at-91.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/
books/mavis-gallant-short-story-writer-dies-at-91.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/20/
my-hero-ondaatje-lahiri-mavis-gallant
Leslie Earl Lee
USA
1930-2014
playwright
whose
award-winning work,
much of it with
the Negro
Ensemble Company,
focused on stretching the
boundaries
of the African-American experience
as it was portrayed on the
stage
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/theater/leslie-lee-playwright-of-black-life-dies-at-83.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/
theater/leslie-lee-playwright-of-black-life-dies-at-83.html
Elizabeth Jane Howard
UK
1923-2014
Iain Banks UK
1954-2013
https://www.theguardian.com/books/iainbanks
https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/dec/31/
iain-banks-digested-discussion-podcast
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/16/
iain-banks-obituary-michelle-hodgson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/24/
iain-banks-new-message-fans-terminal-cancer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/05/
iain-banks-cultural-boycott-israel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/03/
iain-banks-my-fife-friend
Elmore John Leonard
USA 1925-2013
Crime writer known
for Get Shorty,
Out of
Sight and Hombre
whose work served
as a barometer
of modern
America
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/20/elmore-leonard
http://www.theguardian.com/books/elmoreleonard
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/20/
elmore-leonard
Louis Decimus Rubin Jr.
USA
1923-2013
Louis D. Rubin Jr. ('s)
wide-ranging career
as
a man of letters
— he was a teacher,
novelist, essayist,
editor
and publisher,
among other things —
was devoted
to the practice and promotion
of
American Southern writing
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/arts/louis-d-rubin-jr-founder-of-algonquin-books-dies-at-89.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/
arts/louis-d-rubin-jr-founder-of-algonquin-books-dies-at-89.html
Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro
USA
1915-2013
distinguished author
and editor of children’s
books
whose work
— both her own titles
and those of
the writers
in her stable —
offered even
the youngest readers
a forthright
view
of emotionally fraught subjects
like anger,
envy and death.
(...)
Ms. Zolotow’s
own picture books
— she
wrote more than 70 —
were cleareyed explorations
of the interior
landscape
of childhood
by one who had obviously
not forgotten
what it
felt like
to dwell there.
Delicately,
with surgical precision,
they plumbed
children’s interior lives,
often ranging
over loneliness,
loss, longing
and other painful topics
that earlier
generations
of children’s books
had either sugarcoated
or ignored outright.
Her work
was graced by art from
some of the 20th century’s
finest
illustrators:
Garth Williams,
Hilary Knight,
Marc Simont,
Uri Shulevitz,
James Stevenson
and Tana Hoban.
Ms. Zolotow’s
first picture book,
“The Park Book,”
published in 1944,
had illustrations
by H. A. Rey,
the artist behind
the “Curious George”
books.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/
books/charlotte-zolotow-whose-books-tackled-childrens-real-life-issues-dies-at-98.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/books/
charlotte-zolotow-whose-books-tackled-childrens-real-life-issues-dies-at-98.html
Barbara Lynne Tidswell
USA
1947-2013
Barbara Park ('s)
children’s books
starring
Junie B. Jones,
a 6-year-old dispenser
of abundant opinions,
Runyonesque wisecracks
and dubious syntax,
have sold
tens of millions of copies
and delighted all but
the most grammatically
puritanical
parents and teachers
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/arts/barbara-park-author-of-junie-b-jones-series-dies-at-66.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/
arts/barbara-park-author-of-junie-b-jones-series-dies-at-66.html
Doris Lessing UK
1919-2013
William Neal Harrison
USA
1933-2013
William Harrison (...)
adapted his fiction into the films
“Rollerball”
in 1975
and “Mountains of the
Moon”
in 1990
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/arts/william-harrison-79-novelist-and-rollerball-writer-dies.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/
arts/william-harrison-79-novelist-and-rollerball-writer-dies.html
Oscar Jerome Hijuelos
USA 1951-2013
Cuban-American novelist
who wrote about the lives
of immigrants
adapting
to a new culture
and became
the first Latino to win
the
Pulitzer Prize for fiction
for his 1989 book,
“The Mambo Kings
Play Songs
of Love”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/
books/oscar-hijuelos-cuban-american-writer-who-won-pulitzer-dies-at-62.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/
books/oscar-hijuelos-cuban-american-writer-who-won-pulitzer-dies-at-62.html
James Andrew Emanuel
USA
1921-2013
poet, educator and critic
who published more than
a dozen volumes of his
poetry,
much of it after his frustration
with racism
in the United States
helped motivate him to move
to France
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/books/james-a-emanuel-poet-who-wrote-of-racism-dies-at-92.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/
books/james-a-emanuel-poet-who-wrote-of-racism-dies-at-92.html
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
USA
1947-2013
Tom Clancy ('s)
complex,
adrenaline-fueled
military novels
spawned
a new genre of thrillers
and made him
one of the world’s best-known
and best-selling authors
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/
books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/
books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/03/
tom-clancy-top-five-novels
Carolyn
Cassady (born Robinson) USA
1923-2013
writer who entered
the American consciousness
in 1957
as a character in Jack Kerouac’s
novel “On the
Road,”
and decades later chronicled her life
as a
member of the Beat Generation
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/books/carolyn-cassady-beat-generation-writer-dies-at-90.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/
books/carolyn-cassady-beat-generation-writer-dies-at-90.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/23/
carolyn-cassady
Marc Simont USA
1915-2013
acclaimed illustrator
whose work,
embodying both airy lightness
and crackling
energy,
graced some of the foremost titles
in
children’s literature
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/books/marc-simont-classic-childrens-book-illustrator-dies-at-97.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/
books/marc-simont-classic-childrens-book-illustrator-dies-at-97.html
Richard Burton Matheson USA
1926-2013
Richard Matheson's
novels, short stories,
screenplays and
teleplays
drew the blueprints
for dozens
of science fiction
and horror movies
and
television shows
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/
books/richard-matheson-writer-of-haunted-science-fiction-and-horror-dies-at-87.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/
books/richard-matheson-writer-of-haunted-science-fiction-and-horror-dies-at-87.html
John Holbrook Vance USA
1916-2013
in dozens of fantastical novels
(he) created alternative worlds,
past and
present,
imagining their alien societies
in evocative
detail
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/books/jack-vance-writer-of-the-fantastical-dies-at-96.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/
books/jack-vance-writer-of-the-fantastical-dies-at-96.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/
magazine/19Vance-t.html
William Edward Demby Jr. USA
1922-2013
(his)
novels,
written while he was
an expatriate in
Italy,
challenged
literary conventions
and
expectations
of what a black writer
should write about
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/arts/william-demby-novelist-and-reporter-dies-at-90.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/
arts/william-demby-novelist-and-reporter-dies-at-90.html
Morris Renek
USA
1925-2013
critically admired
New York novelist
who wrote comic tales
about historical
criminals
and modern urban life
but never achieved
the commercial success
many thought he
deserved
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/books/morris-renek-novelist-of-hard-boiled-stories-dies-at-88.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/
books/morris-renek-novelist-of-hard-boiled-stories-dies-at-88.html
Bernard Waber
USA
1921-2013
a children’s-book
author and illustrator
whose most famous creation
was a rope-skipping,
ice-skating
Manhattanite
named Lyle
who happened
to be a crocodile
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/books/bernard-waber-childrens-author-is-dead-at-91.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/
books/bernard-waber-childrens-author-is-dead-at-91.html
E. L. Konigsburg /
Elaine Lobl USA
1930-2013
children’s author and illustrator
who twice received the nation’s
highest award
in children’s literature
— she won it in 1968
for her second book,
edging out the runner-up,
which was her own
first book —
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/books/e-l-konigsburg-author-is-dead-at-83.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/
books/e-l-konigsburg-author-is-dead-at-83.html
Albert Chinualumogu Achebe NIGERIA
1930-2013
Nigerian author
and towering man of letters
whose internationally
acclaimed fiction
helped
to revive African literature
and to rewrite
the story of a continent
that
had long been told
by Western voices
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/
world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/
books/chinua-achebe-examined-colonialism-and-masculinity.html
Ferrol Sams Jr. USA
1922-2013
country doctor
who started writing fiction
in
his late 50s
and went on to win critical praise
and a
devoted readership
for his humorous and perceptive
novels and
stories that drew
on his medical practice
and his
rural Southern roots
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/books/ferrol-sams-doctor-turned-novelist-dies-at-90.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/
books/ferrol-sams-doctor-turned-novelist-dies-at-90.html
Corinne Muriel Litvin USA
1933-2013
Obie Award-winning playwright
known for bringing wry humor
to often
wrenching domestic stories
http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/
theater/corinne-jacker-obie-award-winning-playwright-is-dead-at-79.html
http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/
theater/corinne-jacker-obie-award-winning-playwright-is-dead-at-79.html
Richard Gustave Stern USA
1928-2013
Richard G. Stern ('s) novels,
short stories
and essays
were almost universally
admired in the
literary world
but (his) name remained
stubbornly
unrecognized
in the wider world of readers,
earning him
a reputation for being,
as one
reviewer put it,
“the best American author
of whom you have
never heard”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/
books/richard-g-stern-a-writers-writer-is-dead-at-84.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/
books/richard-g-stern-a-writers-writer-is-dead-at-84.html
Evan Shelby Connell USA
1924-2013
versatile writer
praised for his spare
portrayal
of the frost and repression
within a fictional upper-class
Midwestern
family
as well as for his account
of the very real
and bloody battle
that was Custer’s Last Stand
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/arts/evan-connell-88-novelist-in-multiple-genres.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/
arts/evan-connell-88-novelist-in-multiple-genres.html
Solomon Yurick USA
1925-2013
writer whose best-known work,
the 1965 novel
“The Warriors,”
recast an ancient Greek battle
as a tale of
warring
New York street gangs
and earned
a cult following in print,
on film
and eventually
in a video game
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/arts/sol-yurick-novelist-dies-at-87.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/
arts/sol-yurick-novelist-dies-at-87.html
Harvey Irwin Shapiro USA
1924-2013
admired American poet
who chose newspaper work
over the time-honored academic
vocation of his
peers,
and who as an editor
at The New York Times
made an epochal assignment
— what became
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.’s
“Letter From Birmingham Jail” —
that ultimately never appeared
in the
newspaper
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/books/harvey-shapiro-poet-of-new-york-and-beyond-dies-at-88.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/
books/harvey-shapiro-poet-of-new-york-and-beyond-dies-at-88.html
Lawrence Leo King
USA
1929-2012
journalist, essayist and playwright
with a swaggering prose style
and a rollicking
personal one,
(...)
left Texas as a young man
but never
abandoned it in his work
— turning out profiles of politicians,
articles on the flawsand foibles
of American
culture,
searching autobiographical essays
and, most
famously,
the book for the Broadway musical
“The Best
Little Whorehouse in Texas”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/arts/larry-l-king-texan-author-and-playwright-dies-at-83.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/
arts/larry-l-king-texan-author-and-playwright-dies-at-83.html
Bryce
Courtenay
SA / AUSTRALIA 1933-2012
Australian
advertising executive
who started writing novels
after his 50th
birthday
and became perhaps
the most popular writer
in
his country
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/books/bryce-courtenay-australian-novelist-dies-at-79.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/
books/bryce-courtenay-australian-novelist-dies-at-79.html
Jack Herbert Gilbert
USA
1925-2012
poet
whose frank, forthright,
emotionally
fraught works
observed the grand
universal realities
of love
and death
from a perspective
off the literary grid
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/books/jack-gilbert-a-poet-off-the-literary-grid-dies-at-87.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/
books/jack-gilbert-a-poet-off-the-literary-grid-dies-at-87.html
Josephine Chamberlain Ayres / pen name : Ellen
Douglas 1921-2012
Mississippi-born writer
whose novels explored
the uneasy, sometimes
surprisingly tender
alliances
between black and white women
in the American
South
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/arts/ellen-douglas-southern-novelist-dies-at-91.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/
arts/ellen-douglas-southern-novelist-dies-at-91.html
Louis Aston Marantz Simpson
USA
1923-2012
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
who told characteristically
American tales
of common
people
and often cast
a skeptical eye
on the American
dream
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/arts/louis-simpson-a-pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-dies-at-89.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/
arts/louis-simpson-a-pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-dies-at-89.html
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.
USA
1925-2012
elegant, acerbic
all-around man of letters
who presided
with a certain relish over
what he declared to be the end
of American
civilization
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/books/gore-vidal-elegant-writer-dies-at-86.html
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/gore-vidal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/05/
gore-vidal-appreciation-rachel-cooke
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/
books/gore-vidal-elegant-writer-dies-at-86.html
Margaret Mahy (known as May)
USA
1936-2012
award-winning
children’s author
who tested the limits
of her readers’
whimsy
and courage
with fantastical tales of witches,
hauntings,
infinite fog,
and robbers
brought to account
by peppery grown-ups
wielding chocolate cake
and balloons
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/books/margaret-mahy-childrens-author-dies-at-76.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/books/
margaret-mahy-childrens-author-dies-at-76.html
Ray Bradbury
USA
1920-2012
Maurice Sendak
USA
1928-2012
Maurice Sendak
(...)
was both
one of the most
individual
and one of the most successful
illustrators of
the 20th century.
Since 1951 his 90-odd titles
have sold nearly
30m copies
in the US alone.
His renowned work
Where the Wild Things Are
(1963),
with worldwide sales
of more than 19m,
was a turning point
not only in his own career
but in the history
of children's books.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/08/maurice-sendak
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/maurice-sendak
https://www.theguardian.com/books/maurice-sendak
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/12/28/magazine/100000001970456/
an-illustrated-talk-with-maurice-sendak.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/28/maurice-sendak-netia-jones-operas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/13/maurice-sendak-appreciation-shirley-hughes
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/understanding-children-yet-wanting-them-to-grow-up-a-bit.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/08/maurice-sendak-dark-visions-children
http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/gallery/2012/may/08/maurice-sendak-gallery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/08/maurice-sendak
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/08/maurice-sendak-wild-things-dies-83
William Francis Granger
USA
1941-2012
newspaperman
turned novelist
whose fiction
alternated between
international spy thrillers
and police
procedurals
set on the gritty streets of Chicago
— and occasionally blended both —
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/books/bill-granger-novelist-and-reporter-dies-at-70.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/books/
bill-granger-novelist-and-reporter-dies-at-70.html
David Anthony Bowman
USA
1957-2012
novelist
and cultural critic
whose first two
books,
“Let the Dog Drive”
and “Bunny Modern,”
received wide praise
in the 1990s
for their
satirical voice
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/books/david-bowman-author-of-let-the-dog-drive-dies-at-54.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/books/
david-bowman-author-of-let-the-dog-drive-dies-at-54.html
Doris June Waugh / Doris Betts
USA
1932-2012
award-winning novelist
and short-story writer
whose characters grappled
with religious faith, freedom,
captivity and
original sin
in tales steeped
in the Southern
literary
tradition
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/books/doris-betts-novelist-in-southern-tradition-dies-at-79.html?hpw
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/books/
doris-betts-novelist-in-southern-tradition-dies-at-79.html
Lewis Alonzo Nordan
USA
1939-2012
Mississippi-born writer
whose fiction conjures
a dreamlike world
that straddles
the whisker-thin margin
between
a legend and a lie,
but whose best-known novel
was based on a
historical murder
of national import
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/books/lewis-nordan-writer-who-spun-lyrical-tales-dies-at-72.html?hpw
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/
books/lewis-nordan-writer-who-spun-lyrical-tales-dies-at-72.html
Edward Reed Whittemore Jr.
USA
1919-2012
former poet laureate
of the United States
whose work’s calm,
unruffled surface
belied deep subversion
below
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/
books/reed-whittemore-former-poet-laureate-dies-at-92.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/
books/reed-whittemore-former-poet-laureate-dies-at-92.html
Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose
USA
1923-2012
English experimental writer
known for wielding words
with the ardor of a philologist,
the fingers of a prestidigitator
and the appetite of a lexivore,
resulting in novels that exhilarated
many critics and enervated others
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/
books/christine-brooke-rose-experimental-writer-dies-at-89.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/books/
christine-brooke-rose-experimental-writer-dies-at-89.html
John Arden
UK
1930-2012
major British playwright
of the 1950s and 1960s,
whose politically engaged,
theatrically inventive
and conscience-provoking works
were often compared to Brecht’s
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/theater/john-arden-british-playwright-dies-at-81.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/
theater/john-arden-british-playwright-dies-at-81.html
Benedict Freedman
1919-2012
Benedict Freedman's
first novel, “Mrs. Mike”
— based on the true story
of a young woman’s life
in the Canadian wilderness
at the turn of the century —
was a sensation
after it was published in 1947
and inspired a Hollywood
feature film
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/books/benedict-freedman-dies-at-92-co-author-of-mrs-mike.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/
books/benedict-freedman-dies-at-92-co-author-of-mrs-mike.html
William Elbert Gay
USA
1941-2012
self-taught novelist
from rural Tennessee
who emerged
from obscurity in his late 50s
with critically praised books
in the Southern Gothic style
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/arts/william-gay-novelist-rooted-in-tennessee-dies-at-70.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/
arts/william-gay-novelist-rooted-in-tennessee-dies-at-70.html
Diana Wynne Jones
UK 1934-2011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Wynne_Jones
Christopher Hitchens
UK / USA 1949-2011
slashing polemicist
in the tradition
of Thomas Paine
and
George Orwell
who trained his sights
on targets as various as
Henry Kissinger,
the British monarchy
and Mother Teresa,
wrote a best-seller
attacking religious belief,
and dismayed
his former comrades on the left
by enthusiastically supporting
the American-led war in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/christopher-hitchens
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/christopher-hitchens
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/20/
christopher-hitchens-memorial-new-york
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/
opinion/christopher-hitchens-consummate-writer-brilliant-friend.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/
arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/opinion/in-his-own-words.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitchens-tributes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitchens-quotes-bons-mots
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2010/may/30/christopher-hitchens
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitchens-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitchens-dies-aged-62
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/books/christopher-hitchens-on-writing-mortality-and-cancer.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/books/review/arguably-essays-by-christopher-hitchens-book-review.html
Russell Conwell Hoban
USA
1925-2011
For many years
it seemed there was more
than one Russell
Hoban.
Now that he has died,
aged 86,
after 60 years
of intense activity
in his
successive careers,
it may begin to be possible
to gain some sense
of the whole man.
Certainly,
it is clear enough
that the young author
of dozens
of children's
stories,
whose masterpiece
was probably
The Mouse and His Child
(1967),
explored the same territory
as the later author
who published
nearly 20 adult
novels,
and whose masterpiece
was probably
Riddley Walker
(1980).
Each is a tale
of glorious escape
from physical and psychic
bondage.
Each ends
with a sense that freedom
is itself deeply bounded.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/14/russell-hoban
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/russell-hoban
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/14/russell-hoban
Mildred Spitz Savage
USA
1919-2011
the author of “Parrish,”
a tale of a teenager
struggling into manhood
in the vast tobacco fields
of the Connecticut River Valley
in
the late 1940s and early ’50s
— a story later adapted
for a popular movie
of the same title
—
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/us/franklin-kameny-gay-rights-pioneer-dies-at-86.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/us/
franklin-kameny-gay-rights-pioneer-dies-at-86.html
Christopher Logue
UK
1926-2011
Christopher Logue
was dubbed
the "Alexander Pope of his day"
by AN Wilson and was regarded
one of the country's leading poets.
Although a master
of the short
and pithy political poem,
his major work
was the retelling
of Homer's epic, the Iliad.
Logue's version
was published
in a number of small books
including War Music
which won the international
Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002,
and Cold Calls which won
the 2006 Whitbread Poetry Award.
Logue spent
over 45 years on the project
while writing plays
for the screen and
the theatre,
translating Brecht,
and editing Pseuds' Corner
in the satirical magazine
Private
Eye.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/dec/03/poet-christopher-logue-dies
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/christopher-logue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/03/christopher-logue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/dec/03/poet-christopher-logue-dies
Shelagh Delaney
USA
1939-2011
Shelagh Delaney was 18
when she wrote
A Taste of Honey,
one of the defining plays
of the 1950s working-class
and
feminist cultural
movements.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/nov/21/shelagh-delaney
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/arts/shelagh-delaney-playwright-dies-at-72.html
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
USA
1940-2011
novelist with a gift
for evoking complex characters
in the grip of extreme
psychological stress
and physical
suffering,
notably in
“The Madness
of a Seduced Woman”
and the Vietnam War novel
“Buffalo Afternoon”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/books/susan-fromberg-schaeffer-novelist-dies-at-71.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/
books/susan-fromberg-schaeffer-novelist-dies-at-71.html
Samuel Menashe Weisberg
USA
1925-2011
Greenwich Village poet
whose jewel-like,
gnomic short verse
won him
an ardent following in Britain
and belated recognition
in the United States
when the Poetry Foundation
gave him its first
Neglected
Masters Award
in 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/samuel-menashe-new-york-poet-dies-at-85.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/
arts/samuel-menashe-new-york-poet-dies-at-85.html
Alan Doric Wilson
USA
1939-2011
playwright
whose satirical,
wisecracking
works
are considered bricks
in the foundations
of
the Off Off Broadway
and gay theater
movements
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/arts/doric-wilson-72-playwright-in-gay-theater-dies.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/
arts/doric-wilson-72-playwright-in-gay-theater-dies.html
Henry Coffin Carlisle
USA
1926-2011
His broad literary career
included
supporting
oppressed writers,
editing Camus,
helping translate
and publish Solzhenitsyn,
and writing a novel
that mused
about cannibalism
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/books/henry-carlisle-supporter-of-oppressed-writers-dies-at-84.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/
books/henry-carlisle-supporter-of-oppressed-writers-dies-at-84.html
Richard Samuel Wimmer
USA
1936-2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/
arts/dick-wimmer-74-irish-wine-author-is-dead.html
Paul Violi
USA
1944-2011
poet with an easy,
conversational style
and
satiric bent
who reworked arcane
historical verse forms
and invented his own
in poems that mimicked
glossaries,
errata slips,
travel brochures
and cover letters
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/books/paul-violi-poet-dies-at-66.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/books/paul-violi-poet-dies-at-66.html
Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating
USA
1926- 2011
The crime writer
Henry Reymond Fitzwalter
Keating
was more than happy
to be known simply as
Harry,
although publishers
always billed him
as
HRF Keating.
Over half a century,
he published
roughly
50 novels.
More than two dozen
of these featured
his
best-known hero,
the unassuming
Indian policeman
Inspector
Ganesh Ghote,
who also appeared
in short stories,
and
television
and film adaptations
of Keating's books.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/28/
hrf-keating-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/28/
hrf-keating-obituary
Lanford Eugene Wilson
USA
1937-2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright whose
work
— earthy, realist,
greatly admired,
widely
performed —
centered on the sheer
ordinariness of
marginality
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/theater/lanford-wilson-pulitzer-prize-winning-playwright-dies-at-73.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/
theater/lanford-wilson-pulitzer-prize-winning-playwright-dies-at-73.html
Irving Ned Landesman
USA
1919-2011
writer and editor
whose journal Neurotica
analyzed the anxieties
of postwar America
and whose Broadway musical,
“The Nervous
Set,”
has been called the first (and only)
Beat musical
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/arts/27landesman.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/arts/27landesman.html
Brian Jacques
1939-2011
“Redwall”
was published in 1986.
It became
the first installment
in what is
now
a best-selling 21-volume
children’s fantasy series.
Set at the pastoral
Redwall Abbey
in the
misty English past,
the books are written
for children 8 and
up.
They center
on the triumph
of good over
evil
— specifically
the hard-won victories
of
the abbey’s resident mice,
badgers and squirrels
over the marauding rats,
weasels and stoats
that perennially threaten
their peaceable kingdom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/arts/09jacques.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/arts/09jacques.html
Edward Reynolds Price
USA
1933-2011
his novels and stories
about ordinary people
in rural North Carolina
struggling to find their place
in the world
established him
as one of the most important voices
in
modern Southern fiction
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/books/21price.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/arts/21pricebox.html
Joseph Nicholas Gores
USA
1931-2011
crime writer whose spare,
chiseled
sentences
and deadpan dialogue
put him squarely
in the Dashiell Hammett
tradition
and persuaded
Hammett’s daughter
to let him
write a follow-up
to “The Maltese Falcon”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/arts/14gores.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/
arts/14gores.html
Dick
King-Smith
USA
1922-2011
He published
more than 100 books
— mostly about animals
and often about
pigs,
his favorites —
which have sold more than
15 million copies
worldwide.
The movie “Babe,”
based on his story about a pig
that behaves
like a sheepdog,
made his books a global hit.
“The Sheep-Pig” was retitled
“Babe: The Gallant Pig”
for the American
market.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/books/08smith.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/
books/08smith.html
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