a[a9]._Q.push([c, r]) Is it showing up anywhere on your side of things, or did I mess things up after posting my avatar? J.B. was the last surviving member of the generation of newspaper columnists I faithfully read in my salad days, an ink-stained crew also encompassing Nat Hentoff, as well as Jack Anderson, Murray Kempton and Mike Royko. Am still looking forward to finally getting to Love in the Time of Cholera though. Thank you! Hi Dave, apparently my avatar was saved under two different display names, Kat Lib and katlib49, which I used to comment under on Salon.com. Its comforting to know that Jane Austen did the same (without the TV of course)! ! Even now, I am getting Clarence ready to head over to LensCrafters in Rockefeller Center for a new pair of eyeglasses. stylesheet.type = "text/css"; Buchi Emecheta - Nigerian novelist. August: Osage County playwright Tracy Letts. Ha, Dave! Yes, Stieg Larssons death was so untimely he was just 50 or thereabouts, and never lived to see the astounding success of his riveting Millennium Trilogy. } catch (err) { Elvis is dead and I dont feel so well myself is attributed to Lewis Grizzard its close, anyway. Eloquently put, jhNY including your Voyager conclusion! And he wrote (it wasnt ghosted) quite a vivid/accomplished 1987 memoir, now out of print, according to The New York Times, which reviewed the book a few days ago. } Thats quite an evocative quote, Bill! Also, as you say, making sure he got paid is something a number of exploited musical geniuses couldnt claim. 4. Betty Ballantine - American publisher who popularised the paperback. Thanks for reverting to an old means of communication in your hour of digital insufficiency. Anyway, heres what Roger Ebert said about the film Mansfield Park: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mansfield-park-1999. For some reason I am reminded of the old Fugs line: It crawled into my hand. apstag.init({ Seeing anything about Maya just causes joy for me. Its so infuriating when a long post disappears. 4 Great Fiction Books That Have Fictional Authors As Their Main Characters, 123 Ideas For Character Flaws A Writers Resource, 350 Character Traits A Fabulous Resource For Writers, 106 Ways To Describe Sounds A Resource For Writers, 75 Words That Describe Smells A Resource For Writers, The 17 Most Popular Genres In Fiction And Why They Matter, 204 Words That Describe Colours A Resource For Writers. Maya Angelou. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("gtargeting", "1"); Hes guilty, guilty, guilty to quote a Watergate-era Doonesbury comic. Lena Horne. James! He was scowling so much I didnt dare approach him to say hello. . Of course, I read the novel when I was 20 years old and the language itself was a sticking point (and it wasnt because of the antiquated proseI love works by Hawthorne and Melville that are published not too many decades after Coopers works). var node = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; Garcia Marquez, who had been mostly known as a journalist before then, went on to write Love in the Time of Cholera and other exceptional novels. Andrea Levy - The British author won the Orange Prize for Small Island and the Walter Scott Prize for The Long Song. [CDATA[ And Last is an example of a novel written earlier in U.S. history (1826), before the American novel became more mature with Hawthorne, Melville, etc., in the mid-19th century. authors who died in the last 10 years. This is not to say that Austen didnt have a sense of humor, because she certainly did, nor that certain characters werent playful or witty, which many were. All great men are dying and I dont feel so well myself.. A shame she didnt write more books starring Cordelia Gray; do you have any idea why? And Im still not done with all the work! I love how the so-called bad guys used a LION to intimidate people. American former glamour model, known as the November 1992 Playboy Playmate, jumped from a 25th floor window after pushing her seven-year-old son Vincent out the same window. These pages list the authors who died in each year since 1700, together with some of their books. Thanks for your excellent comment, Mary! The inconveniences of modern conveniences. The latest weekly column is here. Improve Your Knowledge Here authors who died in the last 10 years. Theyre sick, sick, sick. e.g. Not nice to hear that the NYT moderators (or moderation system) plays favorites, but not surprised, either. Farley Mowat (1921-2014), Never Cry Wolf. . Which reminds me of what is possibly apocrypha, yet perfect the supposed deathbed utterance of Oscar Wilde: The wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. I dont really want to have to delete my avatar from this site, but Im about ready to. One interesting/harrowing fact about Emechetas Nigerian childhood: she was beaten in front of her class after announcing she wanted to be a writer. two wonderful books to read and audio reads are truly delightful. He was most known for his often-hilarious fantasy novels in the 41-book Discworld series, and also known for usually not splitting his novels into chapters. as to your list, Im missing but Maya Angelou and Billy Letts. Theyre too happy with the proposed huge rise in the military budget (which is already way too high). Edward Albee (1928-2016), Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? daisy yellow color flower; nfl players on steroids before and after; trailers for rent in globe, az New Service; what time zone is 1 hour ahead of est The topic of the month was Island which she fortunately spelt out for me, as I thought shed said Ireland. 3. laughing. And the author never learned to drive! //=0){return}if("ue_https" in e){f=e.ue_https}else{f=e.location&&e.location.protocol=="https:"?1:0}i=f? })(); I should at least read the second, as you want to do. Not familiar with Jenny Diski will go to Wikipedia now! Maybe one reason is that the NYT is getting even more comments than usual these days, with all the legitimate anger at all things Trump? Billie Letts (1938-2014) saw her very appealing debut novel Where the Heart Is published when she was in her mid-50s during a career teaching creative writing at the college level. Another great author is P.D. //]]> One woman becomes pregnant and gets sought after by various political/terrorist groups, some to use the pregnancy as a threat to the prevailing power structure and others to kill her/it. And thanks for the rest of your excellent comment! When the poet Michael Donaghy died at the age of 50, there was something like a carnival of mourning. A late '60s singer-songwriter and guitarist . return null; I have Angelou on my recently updated need-to-read, since discovering Esquires (yes!) I have no idea why, but this post reminded me of this phrase under the yearbook photo of a friend:. . You are too funnyha ha.. Fathers and sons, I guess. I was in the Borough of Kennett Squares office this morning on business and was looking at the maps of the Underground Railroad, of which my town was a major stop, just over the line from Delaware, and home to many Quakers. He did not want to be the voice of a generation, although he was and still is. And I think off-script is (usually) good. . g = p.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; . Dave, do you find any parallels between her and the still living Bob Dylan? if (window.Mobvious === undefined) { OK, now that thats out of my system, Ill go back to the latest comment I was trying to post about Jane Austen and the alt-right. James. She was also the only author who I trusted to write a mystery sequel to Pride and Prejudice, I also read her book Talking About Detective Fiction, which for a longtime crime novel aficionado was quite interesting. But Fanny Price, as you know, was rather boring albeit admirable. Chuck Berry was indeed an extraordinary writer: terse, witty, and more as you noted, jhNY. Self-Publishing. I keep forgetting about those two names! His gutsy, pre-novelist reporting reminds me that Stieg Larsson did almost the same thing before writing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, etc. Jimmy Breslin (1928-2017), The Gang That Couldnt Shoot Straight. ; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; additional terms may . Hes that good, I think, and always have. , I share your admiration of Maya Angelou, Ray Bradbury, E.L. Doctorow, Umberto Eco, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Harper Lee. 10 Allen Bellman Marvel Comics Golden Age Artist Allen Bellman, the Golden Age of comic books artist who worked for both Timely and Atlas before they became Marvel Comics, was best known for early titles such as All-Winners Comics and Young Allies. Ross Douthat gets on my nerves and this is another example. (Marian Wood Kolisch/ursulakleguin.com) Ursula K. Le Guin is an icon of science fiction and fantasy writing. g.parentNode.insertBefore(A, g) I hadnt read anything by Emecheta (1944-2017) until I saw an obituary about her Jan. 25 death. David Bowie (1947-2016), Space Oddity. if (window.ue && window.ue.tag) { window.ue.tag('list:show:signed_out', ue.main_scope);window.ue.tag('list:show:signed_out:mobileWeb', ue.main_scope); } Post tributes in the comments; I've been posting some obituary links on my own list. Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Elie Weisel, who told the Continue reading A Rough Year For Book Lovers Too: Famous Authors . there was a conservative fellow, departed in the last decade, his name escapes me, but from a midwestern think tank whod made it a crusade to conflate the mistaken association. James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Terry Pratchett. //