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Stuart Kaminsky, 75 (1934 - 2009)
ST. LOUIS (Associated Press) - Prolific mystery writer Stuart Kaminsky, whose 70 books included one the Mystery Writers of America deemed the best mystery novel of 1989, has died at a hospital in St. Louis. He was 75. Kaminsky had suffered from hepatitis C and moved to St. Louis earlier this year awaiting a liver transplant. But a stroke shortly after the move made him ineligible for the...
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Jacques Chessex, 75 (1934 - 2009)
YVERDON-LES-BAINS, Switzerland (Associated Press) - Jacques Chessex, one of French-speaking Switzerland's leading novelists and the first non-Frenchman to receive the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has died, officials said Saturday. He was 75. Chessex collapsed Friday evening while participating in a public discussion about a play that had been adapted from one of his novels, said Daniel...
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Peg Mullen (2009)
LA PORTE CITY, Iowa (Associated Press) - Peg Mullen, an author and former Iowa farm wife who hounded the U.S. military to find the truth about her son's death in Vietnam, has died. She was 92. Mullen's daughter-in-law Jeanne Mullen said Sunday that Mullen passed away Friday at a nursing home in La Porte City. Peg Mullen wrote the 1995 book "Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir" after...
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Trevor Rhone (1940 - 2009)
KINGSTON, Jamaica (The Associated Press) Trevor Rhone, a Jamaican playwright who co-wrote the reggae film classic "The Harder They Come" and helped introduce the island's pop culture to the world, died Tuesday. He was 69. Rhone died after a heart attack at a hospital in Jamaica's capital, Kingston, according to his brother, Neville, and playwright Barbara Gloudon, a longtime friend and...
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Jim Carroll, 59 (1950 - 2009)
NEW YORK — Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60. He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York Times. In the 1970s, Carroll was a fixture of the burgeoning downtown New York art scene, where he mixed with artists such as Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Larry Rivers and Robert...
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Keith Waterhouse (2009)
LONDON -- British writer Keith Waterhouse, a raconteur and wit whose works include the enduringly popular novel "Billy Liar," has died at the age of 80. Waterhouse's family said he died...
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Sheila Lukins (1942 - 2009)
By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — Sheila Lukins, the store owner and cookbook author who helped change how America eats, has died. She was 66. Lukins died Sunday at her...
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Elmer Kelton, 83 (1926 - 2009)
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Elmer Kelton, a Western novelist whose book "The Good Old Boys" was made into a TV movie starring Tommy Lee Jones, died Saturday. He was 83. Myrtis Loudermilk, a director...
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Karla Kuskin, 77 (1932 - 2009)
Seattle - Karla Kuskin, a prominent children's book writer and illustrator, died Thursday. She was 77. Kuskin, who had a neurological disorder, died of cortical basal ganglionic degeneration...
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Michael Viner, 65 (1944 - 2009)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Michael Viner, who helped popularize audio books and published a line of tabloid tell-all books that included O.J. Simpson trial figure Faye Resnick and disgraced former...
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Budd Schulberg, 95 (1914 - 2009)
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK — Budd Schulberg, who wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for the Marlon Brando classic "On the Waterfront," died Wednesday at age 95. ...
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Stanley Middleton, 89 (1919 - 2009)
By ROBERT BARR - Associated Press Writer LONDON - Stanley Middleton, a prolific novelist who shared the prestigious Booker Prize in 1974, has died of cancer, his family said. Middleton...
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E. Lynn Harris (2009)
By JOSH L. DICKEY, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES -- E. Lynn Harris, a pioneer of gay black fiction and a literary entrepreneur who rose from self-publishing to best-selling status, has...
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Frank McCourt, 78 (1930 - 2009)
By HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer NEW YORK - Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the...
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Vasily Aksyonov, 76 (1932 - 2009)
MOSCOW - Vasily Aksyonov, a Russian writer and one of the last dissidents to be exiled from the Soviet Union, died Monday. He was 76. Aksyonov, who suffered a stroke last year, died at a...
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John A. Keel, 79 (1930 - 2009)
NEW YORK - John A. Keel, author of "The Mothman Prophecies," died Friday. He was 79. Keel died of congestive heart failure at a Manhattan hospital, his friend Larry "Ratso" Sloman, said...
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Dr. Don Coldsmith, 83 (1926 - 2009)
EMPORIA, Kan. - Don Coldsmith, a family physician who gained fame as the author of the Spanish Bit Saga novels about the Plains Indians, has died. He was 83. Coldsmith, 83, died Thursday at...
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James Baker Hall, 74 (1935 - 2009)
LEXINGTON, Ky. - James Baker Hall, the former poet laureate for Kentucky, has died. He was 74. Ed Noon, funeral director at Care Cremation & Funeral Service, confirmed Hall died of natural...
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David Herbert Donald, 88 (1920 - 2009)
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK --David Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War and American South whose expertise on Abraham Lincoln brought him a...
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Mario Benedetti, 88 (1920 - 2009)
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Mario Benedetti, a prolific Uruguayan writer whose novels and poems reflect the idiosyncrasies of Montevideo's middle class and a social commitment forged by years in exile...
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U.A. Fanthorpe, 79 (1929 - 2009)
By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer LONDON -- U.A. Fanthorpe, a highly regarded English poet who was first inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital, has died at...
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Jack D. Hunter, 87 (1921 - 2009)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Author Jack D. Hunter, whose World War I aviation novel "The Blue Max" was made into a film in the 1960s, has died. He was 87. The Florida Times-Union, where Hunter had...
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Judith Krug, 69 (1940 - 2009)
Evanston, Ill. - Judith Krug, a director of the Chicago-based American Library Association and a founder of its Banned Books Week, has died. She was 69. Judith Platt, president of the ALA's...
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Corin Tellado, 81 (1927 - 2009)
Madrid, Spain - Corin Tellado, a well-known Spanish author of more than 4,000 romance novels, died Saturday while celebrating the Easter holidays with her family. She was 81. Tellado, whose...
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Steven Bach, 70 (1938 - 2009)
ARLINGTON, Vt. Former United Artists movie executive Steven Bach, who oversaw the 1980 debacle "Heaven's Gate" and later wrote a memoir about it, has died. Bach, who spent the last decade...
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Nicholas Hughes, 47 (1962 - 2009)
FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Nicholas Hughes, the son of poet Sylvia Plath, has killed himself, 46 years after his mother committed suicide and almost 40 years to the day after his stepmother, Assia...
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Billy C. Clark (2009)
Catlettsburg, - Ky. - Appalachian author Billy C. Clark, who wrote about Kentucky's Big Sandy River region, has died. He was 80. Clark died Sunday at his home in Farmville, Va., David...
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James Purdy, 85 (1923 - 2009)
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK -- Author James Purdy, a shocking realist and surprising romantic who in underground classics such as "Cabot Wright Begins" and "Eustace Chisholm...
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Barbara Parker (2009)
Boca Raton, Fla. - Barbara Parker, an attorney-turned-author who wrote 12 mystery novels, has died. She was 62. Parker, of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, died Saturday morning at Hospice By The Sea...
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Christopher Nolan, 43 (1965 - 2009)
London - Christopher Nolan, an Irish poet and novelist who refused to let cerebral palsy get in the way of his writing, has died. He was 43. Nolan died Friday at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin...
