Posted on March 15, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Bestselling author John Jakes died this past Saturday at age ninety. In his long writing career, he produced some sixty...

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Posted on March 13, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe has died. His publisher told CNN that Oe died March 3 at age eighty-eight of...

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Posted on March 8, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Ian Falconer, whose artwork charmed adults and children alike, has died at the age of sixty-three. For Falconer, 1996 was...

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Posted on March 7, 2023 at 10:06 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Fussy's been on the road quite a bit lately, so the RSS feeder is chock full of news that developed...

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Posted on January 23, 2023 at 12:10 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When we saw author Marion Meade's obituary, we recognized the name immediately from her biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine and...

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Posted on January 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author Jonathan Raban has passed away at age eighty. You might know him from his writings about travel, yet, as...

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Posted on January 10, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The following three writers have died in the past month, and while they might not be household names to all...

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Posted on January 9, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Award-winning author Russell Banks, who also saw two books adapted into movies in the 1990s, has died. The Associated Press...

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Posted on January 6, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The late writer Fay Weldon was among those storytellers whose actual life could be said to be just as wild...

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Posted on November 7, 2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Times has had quite a few bookish obituaries recently. The one that most captured our attention was...

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