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Obituaries

• 5 writers on Margaret Thatcher (and 5 songs she inspired)

  Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first and only female Prime Minister, died yesterday at the age of 87. Over the course of her 11 year reign, Thatcher sold every government asset that… Read more »

• RIP: Rodney King

  Just weeks after publishing a memoir called The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption, Rodney King, famous for being beaten savagely by a group of Los Angeles policeman,… Read more »

• The life and work of Ödön von Horváth

  Ödön von Horváth, author of the novels The Eternal Philistine and Youth Without God — the first in print and the second forthcoming from Melville House — died on this… Read more »

• RIP: Angelica Garnett

  Angelica Garnett, whose book about being born and raised amidst the Bloomsbury set greatly demystified and darkened the reputation of that “charmed circle,” has died at the age of 93.… Read more »

• Hail & Farewell: Carlos Fuentes

  Carlos Fuentes, perhaps Mexico’s most celebrated writer, died on Tuesday in Mexico City. He was 82. Fuentes influence on Mexican literature was enormous, and along with Gabriel García Márquez, Mario… Read more »

• RIP: Harry Crews

  Novelist Harry Crews has died from complications from neuropathy. Crews, who died at his home in Gainesville, Florida, was 76. “He had been very ill,” his ex-wife, Sally Crews, tells… Read more »

• Hail & Farewell: Adrienne Rich

  Poet Adrienne Rich died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, California, after a long battle with rheumatoid arthritis. Rich was 82. As a San Francisco Chronicle obituary by Meredith… 1 / Read more »

• Hail & Farewell: Barney Rosset

  Call him what you will — and people called him a lot of things — there’s no question that one of the giants of American publishing died yesterday. Barney Rosset,… Read more »

• Hail & Farewell: Ronald Fraser

  The English historian Ronald Fraser has died. He was the author of a number of books on Spanish history including In Search of a Past and In Hiding, which Arthur Miller… Read more »

• Hail & Farewell: John Sargent Sr., Doubleday head and believer in MBP (Management By Party)

  An extraordinary Associated Press obituary of John Sargent Sr., who was the CEO of Doubleday from 1963-78 and published everyone from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Stephen King, and hired Jacqueline Kennedy… Read more »