Authors Last A Long Time, But....

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Susan Spencer-Wendel: bucket list best-seller, apparently fixing to check-out soon.

 

http://www.guardian....e-goodbye-dying

 

Tbh, I was surprised The Guardian gave this so much prominence. By the sounds of things I've posted it correctly here, 2014 possibliities might have been a bit ambitious.

 

Says goodbye. Got a Daily Mail AP feed obit as well.

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Eric Hill author of the Spot The Dog books has died at the age of 86

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Eric Hill author of the Spot The Dog books has died at the age of 86

 

Sad news. He was a genuinely nice guy.

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Daniel Keyes dead at 86. Always got Flowers for Algernon confused with Flowers In The Attic, tbh.

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Daniel Keyes dead at 86. Always got Flowers for Algernon confused with Flowers In The Attic, tbh.

 

Unique pick for my DDP theme team. 3/20.

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Josephine Pullein Thompson of pony club fame along with her 2 sisters has died at 90 http://www.telegraph..._medium=twitter

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Another author and another old pick from my old Bedsoring 20s teams - Daniel Keyes, author of Flowers for Algernon is dead.

 

http://www.sfwa.org/2014/06/memoriam-daniel-keyes-1927-2014/

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Spanish author Ana Maria Matute dies aged 88

 

No.....me neither.

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Mary Rodgers, author of Freaky Friday (originally filmed starring Jodie Foster, remade starring DL fave Lindsay Lohan) and daughter of Richard, has died aged 83.

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Science writer Nigel Calder has died http://www.independe...ce-9569398.html

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Science writer Nigel Calder has died http://www.independe...ce-9569398.html

 

Damn! He was a fine writer, I own several of his books, including his 1974 The Weather Machine, in which he predicted the coming of a new ice age.

 

regards,

Hein

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This article is a bit of fun on the BBC website but if you read carefully it suggests Phillip Pullman is not well but does not elaborate.

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This article is a bit of fun on the BBC website but if you read carefully it suggests Phillip Pullman is not well but does not elaborate.

 

Good spot (as Eric Hill used to say), thanks.

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Josephine Pullein Thompson of pony club fame along with her 2 sisters has died at 90 http://www.telegraph..._medium=twitter

 

She was featured on last weeks edition of R4's The Last Word and as well as the Pony books it highlighted her campaigning work for PEN which helps when writers are targetted by authoritarian regimes. The speaker gave an anecdote about attending a literary event and everyone wondering why Salman Rushdie was talking to 'that old lady'.

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Sci fi writer Frank Robinson has died http://www.locusmag....on-1926-2014-2/

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Dermot Healy Acclaimed Irish Novelist/Poet is dead at 66

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Walter Dean Myers, author of children's books, dead at 76.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/02/walter-dean-myers-dead-dies_n_5552630.html

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Nadine Gordimer dead at 90. 4/20 for my theme team.

 

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Here s a link to news of Nadime Gordiners death http://www.channel24...s-died-20140714

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Here s a link to news of Nadime Gordiners death http://www.channel24...s-died-20140714

 

So in terms of this year's DDP she becomes one of July's People.

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Booker Prize Winners updated for Gordimer and 2013 winner.

 

V S Naipaul (1932)

John Berger (1926)

David Storey (1933)

Salman Rushdie (1947)

Thomas Keneally (1935)

J M Coetzee (1940)

Anita Brookner (1928)

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)

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Val Biro sadly died on 04th July 2014

 

However apart from Wikipedia and an entry on his website an obit does not seem to be forthcoming.

 

I did love Gumdrop as a child and Drango Dragon was one of my daughter's favorites. If I do get the Obit he will be my fifth hit on my theme team and a unique one.

 

Surely someone must have noticed.

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Val Biro sadly died on 04th July 2014

 

However apart from Wikipedia and an entry on his website an obit does not seem to be forthcoming.

 

I did love Gumdrop as a child and Drango Dragon was one of my daughter's favorites. If I do get the Obit he will be my fifth hit on my theme team and a unique one.

 

Surely someone must have noticed.

 

His obit headline practically writes itself, doesn't it?

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Val Biro sadly died on 04th July 2014

 

However apart from Wikipedia and an entry on his website an obit does not seem to be forthcoming.

 

I did love Gumdrop as a child and Drango Dragon was one of my daughter's favorites. If I do get the Obit he will be my fifth hit on my theme team and a unique one.

 

Surely someone must have noticed.

 

His obit headline practically writes itself, doesn't it?

 

Ironically it wasn't a pen name.

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I had no idea Tripod websites still existed.