Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s and Wake in Fright, dies aged 94 | Movies
Ted Kotcheff, the prolific Canadian director of films including First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s, Wake in Fright and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, has died aged 94. His daughter Kate Kotcheff told... Read more »
British writer Alex Wheatle, the author of books including East of Acre Lane and the Crongton series, has died aged 62. “It is with great sadness to inform you that Alex Wheatle,... Read more »
Tom Robbins, whose novels read like a hit of literary LSD, filled with fantastical characters, manic metaphors and counterculture whimsy, has died aged 92. The author of works including Even Cowgirls Get... Read more »
Northern Irish poet Michael Longley, whom Seamus Heaney described as “a custodian of griefs and wonders”, has died aged 85, his publisher has confirmed. The writer, who won the TS Eliot prize... Read more »
Nikki Giovanni, the award-winning US poet who emerged as one of the leading voices of the 1960s Black Arts movement, has died aged 81. Giovanni died on Monday following her third cancer... Read more »
Sandra Gilbert, the American poet and literary critic who co-authored the landmark second wave feminist text The Madwoman in the Attic, has died aged 87. The 1979 book – written with Susan... Read more »
Arthur Frommer, whose Europe on 5 Dollars a Day guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95. Frommer died from complications of... Read more »
Maggie Smith, the prolific, multi-award-winning actor described by peers as being “one of a kind” and possessed of a “sharp eye, sharp wit and formidable talent”, has died aged 89. Her work,... Read more »
Book News: Len Riggio, trailblazing bookselling giant, dies at 83
BookBrowse News – The Full Story Len Riggio, trailblazing... Read more »