On Saturday, the attorney and bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi died of cancer at age 80. Bugliosi was best known as the man who successfully prosecuted Charles Manson—and deservedly so. Although Manson has… Read more »

Last Thursday, the very talented and very young comedian Harris Wittels died of an alleged drug overdose. He was thirty years old. Most recently, Wittels had been a writer on… Read more »

Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first and only female Prime Minister, died yesterday at the age of 87. Over the course of her 11 year reign, Thatcher sold every government asset that… Read more »

Just weeks after publishing a memoir called The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption, Rodney King, famous for being beaten savagely by a group of Los Angeles policeman,… Read more »

Ödön von Horváth, author of the novels The Eternal Philistine and Youth Without God — the first in print and the second forthcoming from Melville House — died on this… Read more »

Angelica Garnett, whose book about being born and raised amidst the Bloomsbury set greatly demystified and darkened the reputation of that “charmed circle,” has died at the age of 93.… Read more »

Carlos Fuentes, perhaps Mexico’s most celebrated writer, died on Tuesday in Mexico City. He was 82. Fuentes influence on Mexican literature was enormous, and along with Gabriel García Márquez, Mario… Read more »

Novelist Harry Crews has died from complications from neuropathy. Crews, who died at his home in Gainesville, Florida, was 76. “He had been very ill,” his ex-wife, Sally Crews, tells… Read more »

Poet Adrienne Rich died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, California, after a long battle with rheumatoid arthritis. Rich was 82. As a San Francisco Chronicle obituary by Meredith… 1 / Read more »

Call him what you will — and people called him a lot of things — there’s no question that one of the giants of American publishing died yesterday. Barney Rosset,… Read more »