05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
Jean Craighead George, author of more than 100 books – including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves – died on May 15 at the age of 92. Wendell Minor pays tribute to his friend and longtime collaborator.
05/16/2012 @ 12:00PM
Distinguished children's book author and noted naturalist Jean Craighead George died on May 15. She was 92. Best known for the Newbery-winning novel Julie of the Wolves and the Newbery Honor title My Side of the Mountain, George penned more than 100 books for young people.
05/10/2012 @ 03:00PM
Historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus remembers Maurice Sendak, who
05/09/2012 @ 10:00AM
Madalynne Reuter, former longtime news editor of Publishers Weekly, fiction writer, and mother, died May 3 at the Amsterdam House nursing home in Manhattan. She was 90.
05/08/2012 @ 10:00AM
Legendary author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died in Connecticut on Tuesday, May 8, following a stroke. He was 83.
04/06/2012 @ 07:00PM
"Rich refused to turn away from difficulty. Her relentless, urgent mission to articulate through singular poetics the personal and political issues of our time never failed her," writes Jill Bialosky.
03/15/2012 @ 03:00PM
Author and artist Thomas Locker, who illustrated more than 30 children’s books, died in Albany, N.Y. on Friday, March 9. He was 74.
02/27/2012 @ 12:00PM
Jan Berenstain, co-creator of the Berenstain Bears series, died on February 24 at the age of 88, after a stroke.
01/04/2012 @ 12:00AM
Fred Kerner, editor emeritus of Harlequin Books, died on December 24. He was 90.
12/16/2011 @ 12:00AM
In the span of about a week and a half in December, the comics world has lost three iconic, veteran creators.
The Roundup for Obituaries
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Mark Twain now has his own stamp! From the USPS.
The NYT obit for the first publisher of the New York Review of Books.
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