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John Turner Sargent, Sr., 87 (1924 - 2012)
HILLEL ITALIE, The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — John Turner Sargent Sr., a publisher, editor and socialite who as CEO of Doubleday worked with authors from Dwight Eisenhower to Stephen King and helped recruit his friend Jacqueline Kennedy as an editor, died Sunday at age 87.Doubleday's parent company, Random House Inc., announced in a statement Tuesday that he died "peacefully" at his...
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Wislawa Szymborska, 88 (1923 - 2012)
MONIKA SCISLOWSKA, The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's 1996 Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, whose simple words and playful verse plucked threads of irony and empathy out of life, has died. She was 88. Szymborska, a heavy smoker, died in her sleep of lung cancer Wednesday evening at her home in the southern city of Krakow, her personal secretary Michal Rusinek...
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Sam Vaughan, 83 (2012)
The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Sam Vaughan, a longtime editor and publisher at Random House and Doubleday who worked with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Duke Ellington and many others has died. He was 83.Random House Inc. announced Tuesday that Vaughan died in his sleep Monday night at his home in Tenafly, N.J."Sam was a giant, a fabulous man, a great leader, and a remarkable and very creative...
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Reginald Hill, 75 (1936 - 2012)
The Associated PressLONDON (AP) — A British literary association says crime writer Reginald Hill, famed for his Dalziel and Pascoe series of detective novels, has died. He was 75.Britain's Crime Writers' Association said Friday that Hill, awarded a lifetime contribution award by the organization in 1995, had died following a struggle with cancer.Hill, the author of more than 40 books, first...
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Christopher Hitchens, 62 (1949 - 2011)
HILLEL ITALIE, The Associated Press Cancer weakened but did not soften Christopher Hitchens. He did not repent or forgive or ask for pity. As if granted diplomatic immunity, his mind's eye looked plainly upon the attack and counterattack of disease and treatments that robbed him of his hair, his stamina, his speaking voice and eventually his life. "I love the imagery of struggle," he wrote...
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George Whitman, 98 (1913 - 2011)
JENNY BARCHFIELD, The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — George Whitman's life was packed with the type of adventures that filled every nook and cranny of his bookshop, Paris' iconic English-language...
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Russell Hoban, 86 (1925 - 2011)
GREGORY KATZ, The Associated PressLONDON (AP) — Russell Hoban, the prolific fantasy and children's author perhaps best known for "Riddley Walker," a post-apocalyptic novel that relied on a language...
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Diana Colbert (2011)
HILLEL ITALIE, The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Diana Joy Colbert, the wife of author Charles Bock whose battle with leukemia inspired widespread sympathy and support among the New York literary...
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Christa Wolf, 82 (1929 - 2011)
The Associated PressBERLIN (AP) — Christa Wolf, one of the best-known writers from the former East Germany whose works described war and politics from a woman's perspective, has died. She was 82...
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Anne McCaffrey, 85 (1926 - 2011)
SHAWN POGATCHNIK, The Associated PressDUBLIN (AP) — Anne McCaffrey, whose vision of an interstellar alliance between humans and dragons spawned two dozen "Dragonriders of Pern" novels, has died in...
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Shelagh Delaney, 71 (1939 - 2011)
ROBERT BARR, The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Playwright Shelagh Delaney, best known for her 1958 play "A Taste of Honey," has died of cancer, her agent said Monday. Delaney died Sunday...
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Ruth Stone, 96 (1915 - 2011)
HILLEL ITALIE, The Associated Press Ruth Stone, an award-winning poet for whom tragedy halted, then inspired a career that started in middle age and thrived late in life as her sharp insights into...
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Ivan Martin Jirous, 67 (1944 - 2011)
The Associated PressPRAGUE (AP) — Ivan Martin Jirous, a poet and the artistic director of the Plastic People of the Universe, a nonconformist rock band banned by the communist regime, died on...
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Florence Parry Heide, 92 (1919 - 2011)
The Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Prolific children's book author Florence Parry Heide, whose work was illustrated by such notable artists as Edward Gorey, Jules Feiffer and Lane Smith,...
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Hella Haasse, 93 (1918 - 2011)
The Associated PressAMSTERDAM (AP) — Hella Haasse, an award-winning author best known for chronicling colonial life in the Dutch East Indies, has died. She was 93.Haasse's Dutch publisher, Querido,...
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Michael S. Hart, 64 (1947 - 2011)
The Associated PressURBANA, Ill. (AP) — Long before the Kindle, Nook or iPhone, there was Michael S. Hart and his Project Gutenburg, a network of volunteers dedicated to providing free online...
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Eliseo Alberto, 59 (1951 - 2011)
The Associated PressMEXICO CITY (AP) — Eliseo Alberto, a Cuban-born writer living in exile in Mexico, died Sunday at a hospital just days after receiving a kidney transplant, the Mexican government...
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Dean Faulkner Wells, 75 (1936 - 2011)
The Associated Press OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Dean Faulkner Wells, the niece of author William Faulkner, has died at a Mississippi hospital from complications of a stroke. She was 75. Her husband...
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Ifti Nasim (2011)
SOPHIA TAREEN, The Associated PressCHICAGO (AP) — A well-known openly gay Pakistani Muslim poet and Chicago radio show host has died.Ifti Nasim was 64. His sister Ajaz Nasreen tells The Associated...
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Theodore Roszak, 77 (1933 - 2011)
The Associated PressBERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Theodore Roszak, the author, scholar and critic who brought the term "counterculture" into the mainstream as he documented the social upheavals of the...
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E.M. Broner, 83 (1930 - 2011)
KAREN MATTHEWS, The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — E.M. Broner, a pioneering Jewish feminist writer, has died in New York City. She was 83.Broner's death Tuesday of multiple organ failure as a...
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Lilian Jackson Braun, 97 (1913 - 2011)
The Associated Press LANDRUM, S.C. (AP) — The author who wrote 29 books in the "The Cat Who ..." mystery series almost quit writing after the third book was published because popular tastes had...
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Harry Bernstein, 101 (1910 - 2011)
VERENA DOBNIK, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Bernstein, whose acclaimed memoir of an English childhood haunted by anti-Semitism — "The Invisible Wall" — was published when he...
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Birgitta Trotzig, 81 (1929 - 2011)
The Associated PressSTOCKHOLM (AP) — The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy says existentialist author, poet and academy member Birgitta Trotzig has died. She was 81.In a brief post on his...
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Ernesto Sabato, 99 (1911 - 2011)
DANIEL ZADUNAISKY, The Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Writer Ernesto Sabato, who led the government's probe of crimes committed by Argentina's dictatorship, has died at 99. ...
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Manning Marable, 60 (1950 - 2011)
CRISTIAN SALAZAR, The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming Malcolm X biography could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, died...
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Jose Arguelles, 72 (1939 - 2011)
TIM FOUGHT, The Associated PressPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jose Arguelles, an art historian whose teachings about the Mayan calendar inspired the harmonic convergence event of 1987, has died at age 72...
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Owen Laster, 72 (1938 - 2011)
HILLEL ITALIE, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Owen Laster, a literary agent and executive of old-fashioned self-effacement and integrity whose many clients included Judy Blume, Gore Vidal...
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Walter Zacharius, 87 (1923 - 2011)
HILLEL ITALIE, The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Walter Zacharius, a publisher and iconoclast who released an unauthorized version of the erotic classic "Candy" and had the savvy and sales talk...
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Moacyr Scliar, 73 (1937 - 2011)
The Associated PressSAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar, who achieved international recognition with his novels and short stories, has died. He was 73.The Brazilian Academy of Letters...
