Mal Peet dies

Author Mal Peet has died, his agent Peter Cox has announced. Peet died last night (2nd March), after being diagnosed with cancer just last Christmas. The writer, whose latest novel The Murdstone Trilogy came out in 2014, won a number of awards during his career, including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Book Prize and the Branford Boase Award. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Felix Dennis dies aged 67

Magazine publisher who was an editor on 1960s counter-culture title Oz dies after battle with cancer The nine lives of Felix Dennis: Ive lived an unbelievable life, even if I did do my best to kill myself This much I know: Felix Dennis Weekend Magazine Q&A, Felix Dennis: Its no fun watching... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Minka Disbrow, Mother Who Never Gave Up, Dies at 102

Minka Disbrow, the mother separated from her daughter by adoption who spent nearly 80 years searching for her, has died at the age of 102. Disbrow’s story was told in a May 2014 book, “The Waiting: A True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Time Warner Cable CEO and industry leader Glenn Britt dies

Glenn Britt, a former chairman and chief executive of Time Warner Cable and a leader in the pay-television industry for many years, died of cancer Wednesday at his New York City home at the age of 65. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2014-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spot the Dog creator Eric Hill dies

Puffin Books said it is “deeply saddened” by the death of author and illustrator Eric... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Maya Angelou dies

Poet and author Dr Maya Angelou has died aged 86. Angelou, whose I Know Why the Caged Bird... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Maya Angelou Dies, Aged 86

The author and activist Maya Angelou, who died at her home in North Carolina, is best known for her 1969 autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Random House). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McEwan speaks out on assisted dying

Ian McEwan, whose forthcoming novel The Children Act (Jonathan Cape) will look at the dilemma of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Leslie Thomas Dies

The Virgin Soldier author Leslie Thomas has died aged 83. Thomas, who was brought up in a... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Inspirational' agent Deborah Rogers dies

Rogers, Coleridge and White has confirmed the death of its chairman, literary agent Deborah... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies

Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died. Penguin, Marquez's... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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IDG Founder Patrick McGovern Dies

Patrick J. McGovern, who became a billionaire as founder and majority owner of Boston-based technology publisher International Data Group, has died. He was 76.He died Wednesday at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., the company said in a statement. No cause was given. He lived in Hollis, New... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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War hero depicted in hit TV miniseries Band of Brothers dies at 90

William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere fought in some of Europe's toughest battlesWilliam "Wild Bill" Guarnere, one of the second world veterans whose exploits were dramatised in the TV miniseries Band of Brothers, has died. He was 90.His son, William Guarnere Jr, confirmed on Sunday that his father died... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fordham’s Editorial Director Dies in Crash

Helen Tartar, editorial director of Fordham University Press, has died in a car accident. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children's illustrator Blegvad dies

Children's book artist Erik Blegvad, who illustrated more than 100 books over his career, dies aged 90. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Webpage is Dying

A growing number of publisher sites are now shunning the concept of finite "pages" as vehicles with which to serve content, opting instead to do so with seamless, often endless feeds and streams. The concept of a page, which is largely a hangover from the world of print media, suddenly seems... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Rosenthal dies

Tom Rosenthal, former managing director of Secker and Warburg, has died at the age of 78.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein dies aged 77

Publisher who helped break down legal barriers against pornography dies in Brooklyn after long battle with illness Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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10 grammar books to read before you die of boredom | Mind your language

A seasonal selection of new (and not so new) books about language that are anything but dullBooks about English fall into various categories, mostly offputting ones: the academic, rarely of much interest, and often incomprehensible, to the general reader; the lament for a (mythical) golden age... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andre Schiffrin dies at 78; book publisher founded New Press

André Schiffrin died in Paris on Sunday of pancreatic cancer. In Schiffrin's nearly three decades at Pantheon Books, he worked with writers Jean-Paul Sartre, Marguerite Duras and Gunter Grass.When André Schiffrin ¿ who died in Paris on Sunday of pancreatic cancer at age 78 ¿ was fired in 1990 as... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Peter Kaplan, editor who commissioned Sex and the City, dies at 59

Former New York Observer editor was known as cultural arbiter and was credited with cultivating style of influential paperPeter Kaplan, the former editor of The New York Observer who hired a then-unknown Candace Bushnell to write a column called "Sex and the City" has died. He was 59.Kaplan died... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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