The beloved Australian illustrator and author Terry Denton, most famous for his work on the Treehouse series, has died aged 76. His publisher, Curtis Brown, released a statement on social media saying... Read more »
Annie Dillard, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, died aged 81 at her home in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on Tuesday. Maggie Nelson, Dillard’s literary editor, confirmed her death... Read more »
Jeremy Thomas, the distinguished British producer of films including Sexy Beast, High-Rise and the multi-Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, has died aged 77. A representative for Thomas said he died on Friday “peacefully,... Read more »
Gloria Steinem, the American feminist and journalist whose activism helped push through greater rights for women around the world has died, aged 92. Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New... Read more »
Wendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author and agrarian whose poems, stories, novels and essays celebrated the farming communities of his native state and warned of the excesses and misjudgments of an industrial, commercialized... Read more »
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, an award-winning fiction writer and poet who drew upon his sexuality and his life on the southern border, has died at age 71. He was the first Latino to... Read more »
Charles Gaines, the author whose book and documentary Pumping Iron helped bring professional bodybuilding into the mainstream and introduce Arnold Schwarzenegger to the world, has died. He was 84. Gaines died on... Read more »
Shahrnush Parsipur, the celebrated Iranian writer whose subversive works of feminist fiction saw her repeatedly imprisoned, has died aged 80. A pioneer of women’s literature in Iran, Parsipur excoriated the country’s patriarchal... Read more »
Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77 | Books