maryportfuncity 10,646 Posted November 27, 2015 Stephen Hayward, editor and publisher: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/20/stephen-hayward-obituary Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,646 Posted November 28, 2015 Terri Roberts who wrote a book about her son shooting a few kids in an Amish school and the forgiveness and bonding between the Amish and herself that followed has announced her breast cancer has spread to her lungs. UK obit chances marginal IMHO. Link to her book: http://www.amazon.com/Terri-Roberts/e/B00MJV0GUC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted November 28, 2015 Terri Roberts who wrote a book about her son shooting a few kids in an Amish school and the forgiveness and bonding between the Amish and herself that followed has announced her breast cancer has spread to her lungs. UK obit chances marginal IMHO. Link to her book: http://www.amazon.com/Terri-Roberts/e/B00MJV0GUC I was waiting for the follow up there, MPFC! "...but prime material for the Deathrace or summat"? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted November 28, 2015 Mark Behr, South African author of The Smell Of Apples and Embrace, reportedly dead from a heart attack at 52. http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2015/11/28/rip-mark-behr-1963-2015/ An apple a day....leads to an early death. Or summat. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted November 28, 2015 Mark Behr, South African author of The Smell Of Apples and Embrace, reportedly dead from a heart attack at 52. http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2015/11/28/rip-mark-behr-1963-2015/ An apple a day....leads to an early death. Or summat. Embrace...death 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,646 Posted November 29, 2015 Terri Roberts who wrote a book about her son shooting a few kids in an Amish school and the forgiveness and bonding between the Amish and herself that followed has announced her breast cancer has spread to her lungs. UK obit chances marginal IMHO. Link to her book: http://www.amazon.com/Terri-Roberts/e/B00MJV0GUC I was waiting for the follow up there, MPFC! "...but prime material for the Deathrace or summat"? Aye, pick away. Not entirely confident she'll be a scoring pick by the time we declare an outright winner in that dept. mind. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,967 Posted December 2, 2015 Egyptian Edwar al-Kharrat, one of the most prominent Arab writers, dies at 89 of pneunomia: http://allafrica.com/stories/201512021012.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,519 Posted December 17, 2015 It's Jacqueline Wilson's 70th birthday today, keep an eye out for any public appearances/interviews she'll be making to see if she's worthy of a pick for 2k16. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,572 Posted December 17, 2015 Another list that no-one asked for: Living Winners of the Carnegie Medal The Carnegie medal is awarded for outstanding Children's books whether fiction or non-fiction. It was won by C S Lewis's The Last Battle in 1956 and Neil Gaiman said winning the prize was very important to him. No-one has won the prize three times although seven authors have won it twice. I have listed the authors in order of thier first win. Pauline Clarke (b.1921) Won in 1962 Sheena Porter (b.1935) Alan Garner (b.1934) Rosemary Harris (b.1923) K.M Peyton (b.1929) Richard Adams (b.1920) Penelope Lively (b.1933) Gene Kemp (b.1926) Peter Dickinson (b.1927) Kevin Crossley-Holland (b.1941) Berlie Doherty (b.1943) Susan Price (b.1955) Geraldine McCraughrean (b.1951) Anne Fine (b.1947) Gillian Cross (b.1945) Robert Swindells (b.1939) Theresa Breslin (??) Philip Pullman (b.1946) Melvin Burgess (b.1954) Tim Bowler (b.1953) David Almond (b.1951) Aidan Chambers (b.1934) Won in 1999 I have only added those winner before 2000 but one post 2000 winner Siobhan Dowd was already dead when she won. Peter Dickinson has died on his party-pooping 88th Btirthday Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted December 23, 2015 The two writers who gave us Logan's Run are both still with us and worthy of future consideration William F Nolan (b.1928) and George Clayton Johnson (b.1929). Apparently George Clayton Johnson was in a hospice for cancer and the suggestion is he has died. https://www.facebook.com/Johnnysamurai/posts/10208606569307827 Just awaiting a news confirmation of this. https://www.sfsite.com/news/2015/12/22/obituary-george-clayton-johnson/?utm_medium=twitter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,572 Posted December 23, 2015 The two writers who gave us Logan's Run are both still with us and worthy of future consideration William F Nolan (b.1928) and George Clayton Johnson (b.1929). Apparently George Clayton Johnson was in a hospice for cancer and the suggestion is he has died. https://www.facebook.com/Johnnysamurai/posts/10208606569307827 Just awaiting a news confirmation of this. https://www.sfsite.com/news/2015/12/22/obituary-george-clayton-johnson/?utm_medium=twitter Wiki has him as dead on 22nd December but no link to a reference. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,572 Posted December 23, 2015 The two writers who gave us Logan's Run are both still with us and worthy of future consideration William F Nolan (b.1928) and George Clayton Johnson (b.1929). Apparently George Clayton Johnson was in a hospice for cancer and the suggestion is he has died. https://www.facebook.com/Johnnysamurai/posts/10208606569307827 Just awaiting a news confirmation of this. https://www.sfsite.com/news/2015/12/22/obituary-george-clayton-johnson/?utm_medium=twitter Wiki has him as dead on 22nd December but no link to a reference. Non qualifying obit Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted December 24, 2015 The two writers who gave us Logan's Run are both still with us and worthy of future consideration William F Nolan (b.1928) and George Clayton Johnson (b.1929). Apparently George Clayton Johnson was in a hospice for cancer and the suggestion is he has died. https://www.facebook.com/Johnnysamurai/posts/10208606569307827 Just awaiting a news confirmation of this. https://www.sfsite.com/news/2015/12/22/obituary-george-clayton-johnson/?utm_medium=twitter Wiki has him as dead on 22nd December but no link to a reference. Non qualifying obit He is still alive, according to tweets from family members. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted December 24, 2015 "If you find reports of your death on social media, but you are still alive....hovering between this world and the next and chuckling at the world's stupidity...then you may find you have entered The Twilight Zone." *Run titles* Don't know if it's been done, but it's a good movie idea. You recover from a supposedly terminal illness but the world has accepted you are dead and can't accept you are alive. What happens? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,964 Posted December 26, 2015 George Clayton Johnson now dead for real. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted December 26, 2015 "Nothing in the Dark" was great, from his Twilight Zone offerings. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshees Scream 110 Posted December 26, 2015 "Nothing in the Dark" was great, from his Twilight Zone offerings. Yes, the twilight zone is on every New Years Day. Prediction is one authors or none on next years page and that goes according to the description. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,572 Posted January 13, 2016 Michael Bond is 90 today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted January 13, 2016 Michael Bond is 90 today. He seemed in fine fettle in that kids novels documentary shown at Christmas. Walks with a stick now, but still working and chatting away. Genuinely nice guy too. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,572 Posted January 13, 2016 Michael Bond is 90 today. He seemed in fine fettle in that kids novels documentary shown at Christmas. Walks with a stick now, but still working and chatting away. Genuinely nice guy too. There is a lady in Cambridgeshire who specializes in caring for sick Guinea Pigs one day she was handed The Olga de Polga - no pressure then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted January 15, 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35323930 Robert Banks Stewart who wrote Bergerac, aged 84. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,967 Posted January 19, 2016 Eminent french writer Michel Tournier dead at 91: http://artdaily.com/news/84459/French-author-Michel-Tournier-dies-at-91#.Vp4nQCrhCUk His best-known work was "The Erl King". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 19, 2016 Eminent french writer Michel Tournier dead at 91: http://artdaily.com/news/84459/French-author-Michel-Tournier-dies-at-91#.Vp4nQCrhCUk His best-known work was "The Erl King". Well known for "Croa King" now SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,967 Posted January 21, 2016 Edmonde Charles-Roux, french resistance fighter, turned editor of Elle and Vogue, turned acclaimed author of "To Forget Palermo" has died at 95: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/01/21/world/europe/ap-eu-france-obit-charles-roux.html?_r=0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted January 23, 2016 Donald G. Payne, who, under the pseudonym James Vance Marshall, wrote the novel Walkabout, is now 92 and hasn't been mentioned before on DL, so I just thought I'd throw his name into the mix. The book was later turned into the film starring Jenny Agutter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
