Authors Last A Long Time, But....

[YoungWillz 21,062]

3 minutes ago, msc said:

Ah did I remember to pick her? She's an on off name for here's who you could have won.

Yes.

[msc 18,479]

1 minute ago, YoungWillz said:

Yes.

Woo! Go me!

 

I mean, a best selling crime novelist who was also a murderer. How could I not let @Death Impendswrite about something that interesting? 

[time 8,618]

Blair Tindall, oboe player from the New York Philharmonic & others, whose memoir Mozart in the Jungle was turned into a hit TV series, has died aged 63 from heart disease. She was due to marry her fiancé in two weeks and had previously been married to Bill Nye.

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

Award-winning English children's author and journo Kate Saunders (wiki) dead at 62.

No cause given.

Also appeared in an episode of "Only Fools and Horses" as a policewoman.

[YoungWillz 21,062]

Guardian obit for Kate Saunders, actress turned novelist, who is known for Five Children On The Western Front and the Belfry Witches series: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/24/kate-saunders-obituary

 

Was in the first episode of Have I Got News For You and appeared as a policewoman dated by Rodney in Only Fools And Horses.

 

Multiple sclerosis.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766859/

 

Edit: Ninja'ed, but look at the detail!

 

 

[diego 1,992]

Rafael Guillén died aged 90, the Spanish poet, a prominent member of the Generation of '50, "National Prize for Literature" in Spain (1994) and one of the most important authors of his generation. He had a long artistic career and among his merits is the fact that he helped to recover Andalusian poetic culture after the devastation of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

https://www.ideal.es/culturas/fallece-poeta-granadino-rafael-guillen-20230504182302-nt_amp.html

[CaptainChorizo 1,983]

Gabrielle Carey

Dead at 64. Cowriter of the Australian Novel Puberty Blues in her teens,which was later turned into a movie in 1981 and a tv series in 2012

[gcreptile 10,979]

Syrian author Haidar Haidar dies at 87:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/18/63/500143/Books/News/The-roar-of-the-leopard-fades-Syrian-Author-Haidar.aspx

 

DDP pick for Gris Gris.

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

French author Philippe Sollers dead at 86

[drol 11,958]

Italian writer Michela Murgia (wiki) suffers from kidney cancer which has spread to lungs, brain and bones. In other words, utterly fucked.

 

Should QO as a prominent critic of the current government and Italian right in general. To me she has always been an obnoxious nobody, the kind of dangerous cunts you find on both political sides.

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

Just came across this news article from last month confirming that war novelist Bill Spence (wiki) aka Jessica Blair (when he's writing romance fiction), turned 100!

Retired three years ago after suffering a fall. A unique DDP pick.

 

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

I don't think children's author Keith Chatfield has ever had a mention on here. He appears to be about 89 and he created a magic fucking panda called Issi Noho, which was made into a 1970s TV series.

 

 

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,062]

On 09/04/2013 at 00:03, Godot said:

Just looking at Martin Amis on telly (Newsnight), going on about Margaret Thatcher. He looks remarkably jaundiced, like a carrot.

Martin Amis dead according to the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/books/martin-amis-dead.html

 

Oesophagal cancer. 

 

I believe he's a DDP pick.

 

Edit: Nope, not a pick from what I can see. Must've been picked before.

[drol 11,958]

Big one.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

18 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Martin Amis dead according to the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/books/martin-amis-dead.html

 

Oesophagal cancer. 

 

I believe he's a DDP pick.

 

Edit: Nope, not a pick from what I can see. Must've been picked before.

That’s a huge Amis by the committee etc etc.

[Sly Ronnie 886]

1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Martin Amis dead according to the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/books/martin-amis-dead.html

 

Oesophagal cancer. 

 

I believe he's a DDP pick.

 

Edit: Nope, not a pick from what I can see. Must've been picked before.

 

Bloody Hell! I've been ambling through his 1989 novel London Fields during the last few weeks. RIP.

 

Edit: Died the same age as his father Kingsley, 73.

[Spade_Cooley 9,538]

Author of the first video game tips book of course.

 

[Sly Ronnie 886]

And scripted the "so bad it was bad" Sci-fi film Saturn 3. How much his actual scripted contribution ended up on screen is anyone's guess.

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

12 minutes ago, Sly Ronnie said:

And scripted the "so bad it was bad" Sci-fi film Saturn 3. How much his actual scripted contribution ended up on screen is anyone's guess.

 

 

Aye, that whole issue is skated around in the semi-autobiographical Money. A book knee-deep in reflections on professional writing and puns, there's a character called Christian Spunk Davies, and another nicknamed Slick which allows for a one-liner: "Spunk's hot Slick." Elsewhere a main character based on Kirk Douglas is called Lorne Guyland (which is basically how die-hard working class New Yorkers pronounce Long Island). 

 

Well, anyway, Martin Amis is dead, right?

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

American writer of detective fiction John Dunning died a 81 years:

https://denvergazette.com/obituaries/john-dunning-bibliophile-bookseller-antiquarian-dead-at-81/article_c9020f80-fb41-11ed-9591-23badf665550.html?fbclid=IwAR1TAHyu4shBEcD0HUihE8KYUSG7xbOKLpeU2qf1sOo03QcQ2CUpKv2282E

He was best known for his mysteries featuring Cliff Janeway, an ex-policeman and bookseller from Denver, Colorado. He also published two non-fiction works that focus on the history of radio.

[tracy 2,420]

Cormac McCarthy dead at 89.

[YoungWillz 21,062]

1 minute ago, tracy said:

Cormac McCarthy dead at 89.

Took a trip to the Knopf website, nothing there about this.

 

Anyhow, we shall see.

[tracy 2,420]

2 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Took a trip to the Knopf website, nothing there about this.

 

Anyhow, we shall see.

 

Well, here's a WaPo obit for you.

[time 8,618]

6 minutes ago, tracy said:

Cormac McCarthy dead at 89.

 

4 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Took a trip to the Knopf website, nothing there about this.

 

Anyhow, we shall see.

 USA Today

[YoungWillz 21,062]

1 minute ago, tracy said:

 

Well, here's a WaPo obit for you.

Just wish I could track down the statement from PRH, that's all.

 

At the moment, I'm in denial, ha! And he's only reportedly dead.