maryportfuncity 10,658 Posted August 2, 2011 Aye, reet, now we're yammerin' 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,904 Posted August 2, 2011 Yorkshiremen (and women), deserve a thread of their own. Also there are quite a lot who are approaching that time. Even Parkinson, the doyen of the lot, can't be that far off now. Geoff Boycott has had cancer I believe. Fred Trueman has gone quiet. Stan Barstow and Alan Silllitoe are just aboutb written up and Keith Waterhouse soon will be. Dickie Bird has simply lost it. Mollie Sugden has taken Thora Hird's mantle as next in line. http://ayup.co.uk/laugh/laugh0.html Have done enough for a while. Time that Godot pissed off again for a while. Sorry, but I had jobs to do and this was the only way of avoiding them. Eebagum, Stan Barstow's not feeling reet gradely, he's kicked t'bucket, lad. Bugger, he was going to be on my list for next year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Godot 149 Posted August 3, 2011 Just read the post above, since when was the late and great Alan Sillitoe a Yorkshireman? Oh all right, since never clever Dick. It's a long time ago since I read his autobiography but I had it in my head he was brought up in Sheffield. Anyway since it's the day after Yorkshire day I was wondering, did Yorkshire folk ever get their own thread? There's a few more famous Yorkshire folk than there are famous names from Cumbria which gave us the odd poet, a climber, a mad taxi driver and a horse that likes chips as far as I can see. How about a general North of England writers\artist thread - the It's Grim Reaper Up North thread? Wot, wi Cumbrians and Lancastrians lahk? Not sure abaht that. Watters different on t'other side a t'Pennines. Yorkshire, being biggest county whit fowk whit biggest 'eads int used to sharing owt, but for missen ah wouldn't begrudge a northern thread. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,542 Posted August 27, 2011 Stetson Kennedy, best known for his explosive completely-made-up 1954 book "I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan", has died at 94. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,658 Posted September 20, 2011 Discovered yesterday that J.T. Edson is still going. Quite likely to get some broadsheet coverage when the time comes, if only because quite a lot of journalists and others who have got to know anything about him develop a grudging respect for the man. Writer of more pulp westerns than most of his fans can usefully count, he's worth celebrating because: a: He lived in the midlands and sold shed-loads of western novels to US readers. b: When interviewed at the end of the last century he uttered the immortal phrase "I reckon writing deep books is over-rated." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted September 20, 2011 Stetson Kennedy, best known for his explosive completely-made-up 1954 book "I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan", has died at 94. What a cool name! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TAFKAG 70 Posted September 27, 2011 Poet, novelist, human rights campaigner and former DDP joker of mine Emanuel Litvinoff has died aged 96. Into the List of the Missed you go, Manny. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whitehouse 872 Posted September 30, 2011 (edited) Dutch writer Hella S. Haase died at the ripe old age of 93. Last surviving member of the four giants. Obit. Edited September 30, 2011 by Magere Hein Moved from topic "Comics & Comedy Writers" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted October 2, 2011 Grumpy children's author Maurice Sendak, the author of Where The Wild Things Are, might be worth a punt. He is now 83 and says he's been suffering from heart problems since the death of his partner a few years ago, as well as mentioning he wants to die a "yummy death". I liked Sendak's blunt assessment of some of his contemporaries : Of Salman Rushdie, who once gave him a terrible review in the New York Times, he says: "That flaccid fuckhead. He was detestable. I called up the Ayatollah, nobody knows that." Roald Dahl: "The cruelty in his books is off-putting. Scary guy. I know he's very popular but what's nice about this guy? He's dead, that's what's nice about him." Stephen King: "Bullshit." Gwyneth Paltrow: "I can't stand her." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,626 Posted October 2, 2011 Grumpy children's author Maurice Sendak, the author of Where The Wild Things Are, might be worth a punt. He is now 83 and says he's been suffering from heart problems since the death of his partner a few years ago, as well as mentioning he wants to die a "yummy death". I liked Sendak's blunt assessment of some of his contemporaries : Of Salman Rushdie, who once gave him a terrible review in the New York Times, he says: "That flaccid fuckhead. He was detestable. I called up the Ayatollah, nobody knows that." Roald Dahl: "The cruelty in his books is off-putting. Scary guy. I know he's very popular but what's nice about this guy? He's dead, that's what's nice about him." Stephen King: "Bullshit." Gwyneth Paltrow: "I can't stand her." He'll probably die from the weight of that big chip he seems to be carrying on his shoulder. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,542 Posted November 10, 2011 Climbing writer Jim Perrin. Review makes it clear that the twist in his latest book, West, is that after nursing his girlfriend through terminal illness, he also got a diagnosis of cancer and was 'given a short time to live.' Likely The Guardian - at least - would reward dead poolers with an obit if the disease did for Perrin in 2011. So, yeah, I'm trying to use up the holiday days I have left this year so I don't end up a) losing them or finishing for Christmas too early and meaning that I can't run up a bar bill on the company's expense at the Christmas party. So I've been spending the past couple of days waking up late and playing Football Manager all-day long. Anyway, I thought I'd do some basic preliminary research for next year's DDP while I had the time, and set about typing in some of the guys who missed my team this year into Google. Geoffrey Hughes, Mike Soper... and then I came to Jim Perrin. There is a blog, to be located here , written by the sisters of Perrin's late wife. In among the claims they make are that he's a drunk driver, he never truly cared for his late wife and, more importantly to us, that he made up his terminal cancer in an effort to sell books. Now, while low-key travel book writers aren't exactly big business, I would welcome both Jim Perrin himself and the "jacssisters" turning up into this thread to argue whether or not he's dying at great length. Preferably with medical documents to back this up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,626 Posted November 22, 2011 Science fiction & fantasy author Anne McCaffrey has died aged 85, following a stroke. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted November 23, 2011 Science fiction & fantasy author Anne McCaffrey has died aged 85, following a stroke. I won't miss her. I tried to read one of her novels. Can't remember its title, it was shite; I got bored well before page 96. regards, Hein Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CarolAnn 926 Posted November 23, 2011 Science fiction & fantasy author Anne McCaffrey has died aged 85, following a stroke. I won't miss her. I tried to read one of her novels. Can't remember its title, it was shite; I got bored well before page 96. regards, Hein I enjoyed some of her books. The earlier Pern books were pretty good. Christopher Paolini stole rather blatantly from her. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,658 Posted November 25, 2011 http://www.latimes.c...,0,909494.story Anne McCaffery, fantasy writer, dead at 85. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted November 25, 2011 US poet Ruth Stone, whose career flourished in her 80s and 90s, has died at the age of 96. Apparently she was world famous in the USA, but not quite a household name east of the Big Pond. regards, Hein Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Godot 149 Posted November 25, 2011 US poet Ruth Stone, whose career flourished in her 80s and 90s, has died at the age of 96. Apparently she was world famous in the USA, but not quite a household name east of the Big Pond. regards, Hein A pity. Stone dead would have made a nice headline. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,626 Posted November 26, 2011 http://www.latimes.c...,0,909494.story Anne McCaffery, fantasy writer, dead at 85. So she is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,904 Posted December 1, 2011 Christa Wolf http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/12/01/entertainment/e040900S51.DTL Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TAFKAG 70 Posted December 14, 2011 Russell Hoban, writer of weird SF novel where they all speak funny, Riddley Walker, has died aged 86. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VSBfromH 74 Posted January 13, 2012 Reginald Hill The creator of "Dalziel and Pascoe" has died aged 75. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted January 13, 2012 Reginald Hill The creator of "Dalziel and Pascoe" has died aged 75. That's a hit for in eternum+'s Wrinkly Dicks... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
angryGreatness 96 Posted January 13, 2012 Almost a Unlucky 13 bonus. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,536 Posted January 13, 2012 That's an Unlucky 13 bonus too. He died on the 12th, so sadly misses out on the unlucky 13 bonus. Shame Janklow and Hill didn't hold on for another day 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,116 Posted January 16, 2012 http://www.latimes.c...-+Obituaries%29 Not exactly an author, but Jerome Rubin, the bloke that predicted the death of books, has carked. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
