Shirley Conran, the author of Lace and Superwoman, has died aged 91, her son the designer Jasper Conran has announced. The bestselling âqueen of the bonkbusterâ was also the founder of the... Read more »
Paul Auster dies at 77 May 01 2024 Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and... Read more »
CJ Sansom, the bestselling author of Dissolution, Winter in Madrid and Dominion has died aged 71, having been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare cancer that affects bone marrow, in 2012. His... Read more »
Lynne Reid Banks, author of ‘The Indian in the Cupboard,’ dies at 94 Apr 05 2024 Lynne Reid Banks, a versatile British author who began her writing career with the best-selling feminist... Read more »
The author Lynne Reid Banks has died at the age of 94. Known for books such as the children’s story The Indian in the Cupboard, she died of cancer “peacefully with her... Read more »
Frans de Waal, who found the origins of morality in apes, dies at 75 Mar 20 2024 Frans de Waal, who used his study of the inner lives of animals to build... Read more »
Laurent de Brunhoff, author of Babar children’s books, dies at 98 Mar 23 2024 Babar author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture-book series about an elephant-king and presided over... Read more »
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning psychologist and author, dies at 90 Mar 27 2024 Psychologist and bestselling author Daniel Kahneman, whose research on how decision-making and biases can impact economics earned him a... Read more »
Maryse Condé, the Guadeloupean author of more than 20 novels, activist, academic and sole winner of the New Academy prize in literature, has died aged 90. Condé, whose books include Segu and... Read more »