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Posted on April 2, 2024 at 8:20 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here are the literary deaths that either occurred recently or popped into the news recently:
Neeli Cherkovski, a poet and biographer, died March 19 at the age of seventy-eight.
Cherkovski's poems were largely overshadowed by his biographies of his more-famous colleagues: Ferlinghetti: A Biography and Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski (The New York Times).
Vernor Vinge, a mathematician and prolific science fiction author, died March 20 at age seventy-nine.
Vinge's novella True Names created an early version of cyberspace, albeit under a different name, and later theorized in an academic paper that artificial intelligence would overtake human intelligence within a few decades (The New York Times).
Maryse Condé, an author, activist, and academic, died April 2 at the age of ninety.
Condé's novels were considered for a number of highly prestigious awards; she broke onto the scene with the bestseller Segu and put her homeland of Guadeloupe on the literary map (The Guardian).
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