Literary obituaries: October 22, 2025

Here are the literary deaths that either occurred recently or popped into the news recently, starting with the most distant.

• Jeffrey Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology who argued in favor of the existence of Bigfoot in Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, died September 9 at age sixty-seven (The New York Times).

• Baek Se-hee, author of the hit self-help memoir I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, has died at the age of thirty-five (The Guardian).

• Alison Rose, who parlayed a receptionist job at The New Yorker into a writing career with such books as How I Became a Single Woman and Better Than Sane: Tales From a Dangling Girl, has died at the age of eighty-one (The New York Times).