Hail & Farewell Ruth Rendell
Zeljka Marosevic
The crime writer Ruth Rendell died on Saturday 2nd May at the age of 85. Rendell was best known for her 24 Inspector Wexford books, which she began writing in 1964,… Read more »
The crime writer Ruth Rendell died on Saturday 2nd May at the age of 85. Rendell was best known for her 24 Inspector Wexford books, which she began writing in 1964,… Read more »
Ion Trewin, journalist-turned-publisher and director of the Man Booker Prize, has passed away at 71. He was diagnosed with cancer last October, but continued to work with the committee through… Read more »
Longtime Bantam Books publisher Oscar Dystel died at the age of 101 last week. His New York Times obituary describes how he took over a fading publishing company—Bantam Books—and made… Read more »
Ned O’Gorman, poet, author, and educator died earlier this month at the age of 84. He was the author of a memoir, The Other Side of Loneliness, a few books… Read more »
Mavis Gallant, the famous short story writer best known for her collections The Other Paris, From the Fifteenth Distrtict, and Paris Stories, died yesterday, as this Guardian story reports. She was… Read more »
On February 6, poet Maxine Kumin passed away in her home in Warner, New Hampshire, the Boston Globe reports. She was 88. Kumin’s poetry career began over sixty years ago, as she explained… Read more »
Last week, French novelist Gérard de Villiers—a writer frequently compared to Ian Fleming—passed away at the age of 83. De Villiers began writing his S.A.S. series of spy novels in… Read more »
Nina Bourne worked in book publishing for seventy years. After graduating from Barnard, she started her career in 1939 and learned her celebrated copywriting skills from beloved and legendary Simon… Read more »