Authors Last A Long Time, But....

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Mills & Boon writing machine Mary Wibberley

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mary-wibberley-mills-boon-author-2970755

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Elizabeth Jane Howard, formerly the wife of Kingsley Amis and an author in her own right

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Elizabeth Jane Howard, formerly the wife of Kingsley Amis

 

And more impressively Peter Scott...

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Elizabeth Jane Howard, formerly the wife of Kingsley Amis and an author in her own right

 

she gave an interview just 3 days ago in which she was alert and looked like she would live to be 100 http://www.telegraph...-interview.html It just goes to show you can't t ell how long people in their 90s might last

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she gave an interview just 3 days ago in which she was alert and looked like she would live to be 100 http://www.telegraph...-interview.html It just goes to show you can't t ell how long people in their 90s might last

 

The interview is from 30 December 2012.

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she gave an interview just 3 days ago in which she was alert and looked like she would live to be 100 http://www.telegraph...-interview.html It just goes to show you can't t ell how long people in their 90s might last

 

The interview is from 30 December 2012.

 

Aye, though in fairness the BBC obit mentions an interview she did for them last month.

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From his Wikipedia article I learned that US writer Robert M. Pirsig (of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance fame) is, at 85, doing rather poorly: "Due to frailty of health, Pirsig did not travel to Bozeman in December 2012 from his residence in Maine in order to accept [an honorary doctorate]".

 

I read his Zen in the 1970s and my life has never been the same. Anyway, he's a unique DDP pick.

 

regards,

Hein

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American author and "gender theorist" Kate Bornstein has announced she has been diagnosed with early stage lung cancer. She is already suffering from a mild form of leukemia and her blog post alludes to other health problems.

 

I quite like Bornstein's choice of titles for a couple of her books :

 

Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure.

Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws

 

Kate's cancer is back, according to her blog.

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Canadian author Mavis Gallant dead at 91 http://www.theguardi...8/mavis-gallant

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Michael Baldwin

 

His mate's blog has it but, I once encountered Mr Baldwin in the company of several other writers and he told me a story about how - in the sixties - he had a drink with a journo mate in Fleet Street who subsequently took Michael back to the broadsheet office where he worked and showed him his own obituary. Michael was musing, this century, that they probably wouldn't use it anymore since he'd fallen so far off the radar. We'll see if he's right. The obituary he saw was for the Telegraph.

 

http://rjdent.wordpr...dwin-1930-2014/

 

and The Guardian have him:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/19/michael-baldwin

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Michael Baldwin

 

His mate's blog has it but, I once encountered Mr Baldwin in the company of several other writers and he told me a story about how - in the sixties - he had a drink with a journo mate in Fleet Street who subsequently took Michael back to the broadsheet office where he worked and showed him his own obituary. Michael was musing, this century, that they probably wouldn't use it anymore since he'd fallen so far off the radar. We'll see if he's right. The obituary he saw was for the Telegraph.

 

http://rjdent.wordpr...dwin-1930-2014/

 

and The Guardian have him:

 

http://www.theguardi...michael-baldwin

 

Any reason it took them 16 days?

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Michael Baldwin

 

His mate's blog has it but, I once encountered Mr Baldwin in the company of several other writers and he told me a story about how - in the sixties - he had a drink with a journo mate in Fleet Street who subsequently took Michael back to the broadsheet office where he worked and showed him his own obituary. Michael was musing, this century, that they probably wouldn't use it anymore since he'd fallen so far off the radar. We'll see if he's right. The obituary he saw was for the Telegraph.

 

http://rjdent.wordpr...dwin-1930-2014/

 

and The Guardian have him:

 

http://www.theguardi...michael-baldwin

 

Any reason it took them 16 days?

 

Well, pretty much the reason Mr Baldwin was alluding to. In 1971 they'd have had him the following day.

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Michael Baldwin

 

His mate's blog has it but, I once encountered Mr Baldwin in the company of several other writers and he told me a story about how - in the sixties - he had a drink with a journo mate in Fleet Street who subsequently took Michael back to the broadsheet office where he worked and showed him his own obituary. Michael was musing, this century, that they probably wouldn't use it anymore since he'd fallen so far off the radar. We'll see if he's right. The obituary he saw was for the Telegraph.

 

http://rjdent.wordpr...dwin-1930-2014/

 

and The Guardian have him:

 

http://www.theguardi...michael-baldwin

 

Any reason it took them 16 days?

 

Well, pretty much the reason Mr Baldwin was alluding to. In 1971 they'd have had him the following day.

 

Question: is this the same Michael Baldwin?

 

The Bruces sketch is a famous sketch from the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, and appears in episode 22, "How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body." It involves a group of stereotypical lounging Australians who are revealed to be the Philosophy Department at the fictitious University of Woolamaloo[1] (a misspelling of the Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo; this is how the suburb is actually pronounced with an Australian accent), and all named Bruce, with a common fondness for beer and a hatred of "poofters." Terry Jones plays a "pommie" professor, Michael Baldwin, joining the department and meeting his colleagues for the first time. Since his name is different from that of everyone else, Baldwin is asked if he minds being given the moniker "Bruce" to avoid confusion.

 

Strange that Woolloomooloo is in the news too. Since Charlotte Dawson, the TV presenter, who just topped herself, was living there...

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Alison Prince (b.1931) should be on the radar by now surely. She wrote a number of childrens novels but more significantly for those with British Childhoods to remember she wrote the scripts for Trumpton.

 

I discovered this researching Gordon Murray who is I think on the radar.

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Alison Prince (b.1931) should be on the radar by now surely. She wrote a number of childrens novels but more significantly for those with British Childhoods to remember she wrote the scripts for Trumpton.

 

I discovered this researching Gordon Murray who is I think on the radar.

 

I stand corrected Gordon Murray is not a DDP Pick in 2014.

 

(Looks down and silently shakes head)

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Joe McGinniss, political author, at 71.

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Finally on the board this year.

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Finally on the board this year.

 

I took him off my DDP list for fear that he wouldn't get a UK Obit.......

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Joe McGinniss, political author, at 71.

 

"The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro" is easily the best book about football written by an American.

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Joe McGinniss, political author, at 71.

 

"The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro" is easily the best book about football written by an American.

 

Never mind the political stuff, that's his only book I have.

 

The Guardian is full of football geeks, and that book has a reputation, so knew he'd get the obit from them.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez hospitalised in Mexico City.

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He was reported as having dementia in 2012. Since they're refusing to say what it is it could be one of those sudden declines in health/end stage of life/whatever.

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An update.

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Kids author John Rowe Townsend

 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/02/john-rowe-townsend

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez leaves hospital in a "delicate state".

 

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/08/author-gabriel-garcia-marquez-leaves-hospital-in-delicate-state/