Mad Hatter2 85 Posted May 15, 2018 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/tom-wolfe-right-stuff-author-and-new-journalism-legend-dead-at-87-w520325 Here Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted May 23, 2018 Novelist Philip Roth has died. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/obituaries/philip-roth-dead.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted May 23, 2018 So he dies Nobel Prize-free. Cruel fate... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted May 23, 2018 Wolfe and Roth, waiting on the proverbial third. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,438 Posted May 23, 2018 45 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: Wolfe and Roth, waiting on the proverbial third. Get Clive Cussler to a medical check up quick just in case. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted May 23, 2018 Two coffins: The Crates of Roth. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted May 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Sir Creep said: Wolfe and Roth, waiting on the proverbial third. This video, except it says "Don DeLillo". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,571 Posted May 23, 2018 V S Naipaul (1932) Salman Rushdie (1947) Thomas Keneally (1935) J M Coetzee (1940) Keri Hume (1947) Penelope Lively (1933) Peter Carey (1943) Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) A S Byatt (1936) Ben Okri (1959) Michael Ondaatje (1943) Roddy Doyle (1958) James Kelman (1946) Pat Barker (1943) Graham Swift (1949) Arundhati Roy (1961) Ian McEwan (1948) Margaret Atwood (1939) Yann Martel (1963) DBC Pierre (1961) Alan Hollinghurst (1954) John Banville (1945) Kiran Desai (1971) Anne Enright (1962) Aravind Adiga (1974) Hilary Mantel (1952) Howard Jacobson (1942) Julian Barnes (1946) Eleanor Catton (1985) Richard Flanagan (1961) Marlon James (1970) Paul Beatty (1962) George Saunders (1958) Olga Tokarczuk (1962) Updated for 2018 winner 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,571 Posted May 23, 2018 2 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said: V S Naipaul (1932) Salman Rushdie (1947) Thomas Keneally (1935) J M Coetzee (1940) Keri Hume (1947) Penelope Lively (1933) Peter Carey (1943) Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) A S Byatt (1936) Ben Okri (1959) Michael Ondaatje (1943) Roddy Doyle (1958) James Kelman (1946) Pat Barker (1943) Graham Swift (1949) Arundhati Roy (1961) Ian McEwan (1948) Margaret Atwood (1939) Yann Martel (1963) DBC Pierre (1961) Alan Hollinghurst (1954) John Banville (1945) Kiran Desai (1971) Anne Enright (1962) Aravind Adiga (1974) Hilary Mantel (1952) Howard Jacobson (1942) Julian Barnes (1946) Eleanor Catton (1985) Richard Flanagan (1961) Marlon James (1970) Paul Beatty (1962) George Saunders (1958) Olga Tokarczuk (1962) Updated for 2018 winner I thought I had deleted that. She is not the 2018 winner only the international winner. The short list hasn't been published yet. I am not firing on all cylinders today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dodrade 94 Posted May 23, 2018 12 hours ago, gcreptile said: So he dies Nobel Prize-free. Cruel fate... Why didn't they like him? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Doornail 38 Posted May 23, 2018 American Pastoral is a good book in the costume of a much longer, much less interesting book. Anyway RIP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,396 Posted May 24, 2018 Richard Peck, American author of YA fiction and winner of the Newbery Medal (2001), has died aged 84. Edit: Daily Mail obituary. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dead Wait 1,129 Posted May 30, 2018 Michael Morpurgo reveals cancer battle http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44310240 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,571 Posted May 30, 2018 11 minutes ago, Dead Wait said: Michael Morpurgo reveals cancer battle http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44310240 Was this who Drol was hinting at? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted June 5, 2018 Jerry Hopkins, an author and veteran Rolling Stone writer that served as the magazine's Los Angeles corespondent in the late Sixties, died in Bangkok, Thailand on June 3rd after a long illness. He was 82. His wife Lamyai confirmed Hopkins' death. In 1980, Hopkins wrote No One Here Gets Out Alive, the definitive Doors biography that was used as the basis for Oliver Stone's 1991 movie. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,132 Posted June 5, 2018 7 hours ago, Sir Creep said: Jerry Hopkins, an author and veteran Rolling Stone writer that served as the magazine's Los Angeles corespondent in the late Sixties, died in Bangkok, Thailand on June 3rd after a long illness. He was 82. His wife Lamyai confirmed Hopkins' death. In 1980, Hopkins wrote No One Here Gets Out Alive, the definitive Doors biography that was used as the basis for Oliver Stone's 1991 movie. SC That is somewhere on my bookshelves. His co-author, Danny Sugerman, died in 2005, so the titular prophecy has been fulfilled. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,314 Posted June 5, 2018 On 30/05/2018 at 22:41, Bibliogryphon said: Was this who Drol was hinting at? I mentioned him on the thread. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted June 13, 2018 Noted Canadian criminal-turned-author Stephen Reid has died. He was 68. He's survived by his wife, Canadian poet Susan Musgrave. https://www.cheknews.ca/stopwatch-gang-bank-robber-and-author-stephen-reid-dies-460294/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lorna doom 18 Posted June 24, 2018 Somebody posted about this author in a Facebook group born 27 October 1906......can't find a death -date for her which would make her just shy of 112 although I should imagine her death has gone unreported. forhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/list/701436.Elizabeth_Lemarchand Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,438 Posted June 24, 2018 2 minutes ago, lorna doom said: Somebody posted about this author in a Facebook group born 27 October 1906......can't find a death -date for her which would make her just shy of 112 although I should imagine her death has gone unreported. forhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/list/701436.Elizabeth_Lemarchand Two seconds on Google brings up her current publisher: Elizabeth Lemarchand was born in 1906. She became a teacher at The Godophin School in Salisbury. Her first book Death of an Old Girl was published in 1967. Elizabeth passed away in 2000 at the age of 94. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,438 Posted June 24, 2018 Cathy MacPhail, one of those names whose books are always to be found in a local library, in a dire condition after severe stroke, apparently. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,220 Posted June 30, 2018 On 19/06/2016 at 14:30, gcreptile said: Very marginally famous writer Colin Butts has stage IV pancreatic cancer: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/movies/movie-news/ibiza-writer-diagnosed-terminal-cancer-8227488#E95AOAUQs2VtmMjp.97 His script was just turned into a movie and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Dead. Well, I'll need another 5th sub then... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clorox Bleachman 2,410 Posted June 30, 2018 3 minutes ago, Joey Russ said: Dead. Well, I'll need another 5th sub then... Looks like we've reached the point in Summer where the cancer sufferers are all dying. That's 3 in 2 days. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted June 30, 2018 Poker entrants - to your inboxes! Chaaaaaarggeee! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,963 Posted June 30, 2018 Butts was an arse doing that to you, Willz. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
