Ray Bradbury, Who Brought Mars to Earth With a Lyrical Mastery, Dies at 91 (Published 2012)
Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction whose imaginative and lyrical evocations of the future reflected both the optimism and the anxieties of his own postwar America, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his agent, Michael Congdon. By many estimations Mr. Bradbury was the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream.
On E-Books and Stephen Colbert: A Few Words With Maurice Sendak
In a 1993 article in The Times, Maurice Sendak, who died Tuesday morning at the age of 83, told Sarah Lyall: “Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts,
Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83 (Published 2012)
Maurice Sendak at his Ridgefield, Conn., home with his German Shepherd, Herman, in 2006.Credit...Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche,
The Cat Who author Lilian Jackson Braun dies
Braun retired in 2007 after the publication of The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers Lilian Jackson Braun - the author of 29 The Cat Who... books about a crime-solving journalist and cat owner called Jim Qwilleran - has died aged 97. After her first book, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, was published in 1966, the New York Times called her "the new detective writer of the year". But after publishing two mo
Tony Judt obituary
In the 1960s, Cambridge produced a remarkable generation of historians – David Cannadine, Linda Colley and Simon Schama among others – but one name acquired a particular resonance. Well before his death at 62 from motor neurone disorder, Tony Judt flowered not only as a great historian of modern Europe, expanding from his original specialism of French 19th-century socialism to encompass the whole
Tony Judt, author, historian and one of Britain's bravest men, dies at
Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in Tony Judt, author, historian and one of Britain's bravest men, dies at 62Polymath writer of epic history of modern Europe relished controversy even after disease trapped him in his own body
Tony Judt: the captivating wit and intellect of my friend and teacher | Saul Goldberg
'Everyone needs a Tony Judt in their life." This was how one of his former students responded in 2009 when asked by a high school teacher to describe what Tony Judt was really like. I remember the teacher well. He was himself an intellectually serious man, not just familiar with Tony's work but an avid follower of it: he proudly owned every one of Tony's seven major history books, and subscribed t
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