The literary deaths of 2020

We’ve been sharing Literary Hub’s biggest book events/stories from 2020 with the promise that not all of them are depressing.

Well … we’re about to share another list from them that we promise is, in fact, rather gloomy.

It’s the roundup of literary deaths in 2020 — writers, critics, publishers, and other bookish figures.

If you don’t want a melancholy trip down memory lane, consider yourself warned.

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