Authors Last A Long Time, But....

[YoungWillz 21,066]

Vanessa Lafaye has cancer: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine/the-sunday-times-magazine/vanessa-lafaye-ive-got-cancer-this-might-be-my-last-christmas-dwnkbcs7v

[Sean 6,337]

15 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Vanessa Lafaye has cancer: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine/the-sunday-times-magazine/vanessa-lafaye-ive-got-cancer-this-might-be-my-last-christmas-dwnkbcs7v

Another name to add to my prospective list!Just brilliant.

[gcreptile 10,979]

I think I wrote of that before. Or am I confusing her with someone else...

[Toast 16,155]

No, looks like she's just upgraded from the Mail to the Times.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5017843/Vanessa-happiest-dying-woman-Britain.html

[Sir Creep 7,070]

22 hours ago, Sean said:

Another name to add to my prospective list!Just brilliant.

Please don't tell us you are going to offer up Shameless 3.0.  Even gcr has given up the ghost on that.  

[The Dead Cow 620]

On 7/27/2016 at 01:28, Death Impends said:

Mystery author Bill Crider has a "very aggressive form of carcinoma". Per his Wiki, two of his novels were co-written with Today Show weatherman Willard Scott, of all people.

 

One for the dead pools with very lax obit standards.

Entered hospice care earlier this month.

[YoungWillz 21,066]

Detective novelist and DDP Pick Sue Grafton has died: http://www.wdrb.com/story/37160155/louisville-mystery-writer-sue-grafton-has-died-family-friend-says

[msc 18,480]

2 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Detective novelist and DDP Pick Sue Grafton has died: http://www.wdrb.com/story/37160155/louisville-mystery-writer-sue-grafton-has-died-family-friend-says

 

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A graduate of Atherton High School and the University of Louisville, Grafton worked as a screenwriter before writing the first of her popular Kinsey Millhone novels, “A is for Alibi,” in 1982. She published her most recent book in the series, “Y is for Yesterday,” earlier this year.

 

Bit of a kicker for those excitedly waiting for Z is for Zebra.

[YoungWillz 21,066]

2 minutes ago, msc said:

 

 

Bit of a kicker for those excitedly waiting for Z is for Zebra.

Was previously announced as Z Is For Zero.....still not reading it...

[msc 18,480]

1 minute ago, YoungWillz said:

Was previously announced as Z Is For Zero.....still not reading it...

 

Ah, I've probably just spoiled the twist!

 

"Read the A-Z the other day. Turns out, the zebra did it."

 

A 90s comic but I forget which one.

[Toast 16,155]

2 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Was previously announced as Z Is For Zero.....still not reading it...

You won't be getting the chance to read it.

[gcreptile 10,979]

True Crime writer Helen Garner is now ready to die happily. However there's no hidden talk about cancer à la Thomas Keneally in this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/30/helen-garner-i-used-to-feel-spiteful-because-i-never-won-prizes-now-i-can-die-happy

[BrunoBrimley 86]

Now that Sue Grafton has left for the mortuary one last time, maybe that wannabe writer Lawrence Block can follow suit.   

 

He is nearly 2 years older than Grafton was and his health just hasn't been the best since his near fatal fall some months back in which he cracked his hip, followed by less than successful surgery.

 

 

[Thatcher 2,418]

Francis Wyndham, British author and editor, has died aged 93. He received profiles from The Guardian and The Independent. 

 

Edit: The Times, The Telegraph obituaries.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

On 6/5/2017 at 12:49, ObakeFilter said:

Helen Dunmore, who revealed having cancer not so long ago, died at 64.

http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid=712

Helen Dunmore has won the Costa Book Award for poetry posthumously, six months after dying of cancer.

The late poet and novelist was awarded the major literary prize for her tenth and final collection Inside The Wave.

It includes the poem Hold Out Your Arms, which was written shortly before she died in June at the age of 64.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Wrong thread per se, but I can live with this decision.

 

The owner of New York’s famed Strand Bookstore has died, according to an obituary posted online.

Fred Bass died Wednesday morning at the age of 89, the obituary in Publishers Weekly says.

Bass was a New York native whose father started the iconic bookstore in 1927. The shop went on to become the most famous bookstore in modern day New York -- instantly recognizable to the legions of city dwellers who have filled its narrow corridors stacked with “18 miles of books.”
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Note: Found it amusing 'he died according to an obituary...'  ya think?   I know, there's always the Bob Hope mantra....but this was rather poorly worded and amusing (to me) nonetheless.
 

[Thatcher 2,418]

Tricia Walker, a British author who wrote Benedict's Brother, has died aged 53. She is the daughter of Peter Walker, the author of the Constable series which were the inspiration for the TV series Heartbeat.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,346]

On 10/02/2017 at 14:01, Bibliogryphon said:

Raymond Briggs receives Lifetime Achievment award from the Books Trust. Looks terrible unlike my DDP pick, the much older Shirley Hughes who seems positively beaming

I hadn't realised that Raymond Briggs was still alive but anyway  to him 84 today. 

[Toast 16,155]

Oooh, he's in my 30/30 team which I haven't got round to submitting yet.  Must get on that.

[YoungWillz 21,066]

Peter Mayle, author of books on Provence, dead aged 78. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/peter-mayle-author-year-provence-dead-78-52444573 and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-5286081/Peter-Mayle-author-A-Year-Provence-dead-78.html

[Bentrovato 1,089]

9 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

I hadn't realised that Raymond Briggs was still alive but anyway  to him 84 today. 

He did a great Desert Island Discs where he, as the great children's book Snowman author, tried to explain politely that he did not like bloody children, had never wanted any and barely put up with those in his family and only did so in the knowledge he did not have to take them home. Very funny.

[Bentrovato 1,089]

26 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Peter Mayle, author of books on Provence, dead aged 78. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/peter-mayle-author-year-provence-dead-78-52444573 and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-5286081/Peter-Mayle-author-A-Year-Provence-dead-78.html

Shite books and an even worse TV adaptation.  Willl never go to Provence just in case I bump into some of his fatuous and vacuous friends.

[RadGuy 1,614]

Ursula K. Le Guin dead aged 88.

[gcreptile 10,979]

Just now, Phantom of the Midway said:

Ursula K. Le Guin dead aged 88.

Ooh, ...huge... and sad.

[Youwanticewiththat 611]

1 hour ago, Phantom of the Midway said:

Ursula K. Le Guin dead aged 88.

Very sad to read that.