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Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

Critic, gadfly, supporter of the Iraq war, misogynist, atheist. Christopher Hitchens was all these things. He was also one of the most erudite and plain-spoken writers of his day, possessed of intelligence, wit, and interests ... Read More »

December 16, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Henk Harren, bookseller, 1944 “ 2011

By Natalie Samson

Henk Harren, owner of Windsor's The Book Mark, has died of a heart attack. He was 67. Harren, a native of Holland, came to Canada at 18 to escape the military draft. He opened his ... Read More »

April 14, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Douglas Lochhead, 1922-2011

By Natalie Samson

Douglas Lochhead, the poet laureate of Sackville, New Brunswick, died Tuesday in a Westmorland-area nursing home. He was 88. Lochhead was named the first-ever lifetime poet laureate for the town in 2002. From Lochhead's obituary ... Read More »

March 17, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

J.D. Salinger dies at 91

By Laura Godfrey

J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey, has died at age 91 in his New Hampshire home. According to The New York Times, the author died of natural causes: ... Read More »

January 28, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

In honour of St. Patrick’s Day…

By Eric Emin Wood

The author as drunken lout is hardly groundbreaking, but it's rare to unearth the sort of apology Edgar Allen Poe offered his publishers J. and H.G. Langley for his mint julep-fuelled behaviour in 1842: Will you be so ... Read More »

March 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

John Updike dies

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and man of letters John Updike has died of lung cancer, at the age of 76. From the Associated Press: A literary writer who frequently appeared on best seller lists, the tall, ... Read More »

January 27, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Remembering those who passed

By Steven W. Beattie

The year end is a time for remarking significant events of the past 12 months, and Quillblog would be remiss not to recall some of the major international literary figures who shuffled off this mortal ... Read More »

December 18, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

American author Studs Terkel dead at 96

By Steven W. Beattie

Continuing our sad Monday-morning ritual, there's a significant literary death from over the weekend to mention. Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian and radio personality Studs Terkel died last Friday after a long illness. Terkel, whose adopted ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Tony Hillerman dead at 83

By Steven W. Beattie

In what is becoming a sad Monday ritual, news has broken about the death of a major literary figure over the weekend. Mystery writer Tony Hillerman, whose Navajo Tribal Police novels were perennial bestsellers, died ... Read More »

October 27, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Legendary U.K. agent Pat Kavanagh dies

By Steven W. Beattie

The Bookseller is reporting that Pat Kavanagh, the British agent and wife of novelist Julian Barnes, has died. Kavanagh represented some heavy hitters in the literary world, including Joanna Trollope, John Irving, and William Trevor ... Read More »

October 20, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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