Posted on August 27, 2024 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Recently, The New York Times covered the deaths of three very different writers.
Tom Brown Jr., considered among the country's best (if not the singular best) expert on wilderness survival, died August 16 at age seventy-four.
He wrote sixteen books on survival, tracking, and the wilderness — including a three-part field guide series — in addition to founding and running the Tracker School.
Helen E. Fisher, also known for her scientific expertise, albeit in terms of the brain chemistry of love and rejection, died August 24 at age seventy-nine.
In addition to her writing (The Sex Contract and Anatomy of Love) and considerable research, Fisher served as chief science adviser to Match.com.
And Hettie Jones, a poet and author who often hosted the Beat writers and artists in her home, died August 13 at age ninety.
Jones wrote twenty books, many of them for children and young adults, particularly early in her career (like Big Star Fallin’ Mama: Five Women in Black Music), and finally published poems in the latter third of her life, with the poetry collection Drive coming out in 1997.
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