Billy MacMillan, a former NHL player known for his work ethic and friendship, died Friday at the age of 80. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-07-16 16:03:30 UTC ]
Martin Amis, best known for a scathing, dazzling trilogy of novels on money-saturated '80s London and the memoir "Experience," died Friday at 73. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-05-20 20:05:38 UTC ]
Erika A. Niedowski, a former Sun foreign correspondent and Moscow bureau chief who was a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist and later worked for The Associated Press, died Friday of undetermined causes at Rhode Island Hospital two days before her 47th birthday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2020-10-06 21:08:37 UTC ]
James Salter, the prize-winning author acclaimed for his sophisticated, granular prose and sobering insights in "Light Years," "A Sport and a Pastime" and other fiction, died Friday in Sag Harbor, N.Y. He was 90. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Noted author Ellen Conford, largely known for her humorous and realistic YA fiction and middle grade novels, including the Jenny Archer series, died Friday, March 20, of a heart ailment – on her 73rd birthday – at her home in Great Neck, N.Y. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]