Authors: In Memoriam, 2012
14 January 2013
I meant to write this post a long time ago, when I noticed during my summer's break from blogging that several authors I loved had died. (And yes, I'm reasonably sure that there is no connection between my stopping blogging and authors dying, but geez, now I'm a little bit nervous about taking any more extended breaks.)
So, as it is now 2013, I thought I'd just go ahead and make a list of authors who died in 2012. I provided a few obituary/tribute links for some of the more well-known names, but was too lazy to do so for everyone. Please let me know who I missed, or let us know in the comments which authors you're really, really going to miss.
Jose Aruego (illustrator)
Nina Bawden
Leila Berg (children's author)
Doris Betts
Christine Brooke-Rose
Helen Gurley Brown
Michael Louis Calvillo
Harry Crews
Marion Cunningham
Simin Daneshvar
Henry Denker
Leo Dillon (illustrator)
Irvin Faust
Eva Figes
Phillip Finch
Philip Fradkin
Carlos Fuentes
William Gay
Jean Craighead George (children's author)
Suzy Gershman
Jack Gilbert (poet)
Dorothy Gilman
Rosa Guy
Harry Harrison (SF author)
Reginald Hill
Robert Hughes
Penny Jordan
Erica Kennedy
Charla Krupp
Ellen Levine (children's author)
Kenneth Libo
Thomas Locker
Jean Merrill (children's book author)
William Lee Miller
LeRoy Neiman
Helen Nicoll (UK children's book author)
Dora Saint (Miss Read)
Louis Simpson (poet)
Donald Sobol (creator of Encyclopedia Brown)
Simms Taback (children's author)
Antonio Tabucchi
E. V. Thompson
Kathy (K.D.) Wentworth (SF author)
Bill White (cartoonist)
Reed Whittemore (poet)
Tom Wicker
Jake Adam York (poet)
Jim Young
Zig Ziglar