Sara Craven 1938-2017 – It’s been a bad few weeks for Romance, with the untimely death of Miranda Neville, and now news of Sara Craven’s passing. Craven wrote for Mills and Boon/Harlequin for more than 40 years, and she was approaching her 100th book. Born in 1938, Craven also won ... more >
Miranda Neville has passed away – If you are on Twitter, you have probably seen that the wonderful and talented Miranda Neville passed away peacefully yesterday morning. She had been struggling with cancer, and her last general tweet, on September 30th, was one announcing an “unexpected surgery.” An extremely talented ... more >
‘You may want to marry my husband’ Chicago essayist dead at 51 – I am happy to see such robust coverage of Rosenthal’s death, if only because it will introduce even more readers to her work and continue to build her legacy. Rosenthal’s recent NYT Modern Love column likely introduced more readers ... more >
Husband of best-selling Benton City author dies – Those of you who read Patricia Briggs or who follow her social media accounts (including her website), may be familiar with her husband, Mike, who was very involved in his wife’s career, not only serving as her research assistant, but also blogging on her ... more >
Watership Down author Richard Adams dies aged 96 – Oh how I loved Watership Down as a kid, and frankly didn’t even realize that its author, Richard Adams, was still alive. Anyway, this is a lovely remembrance, not only about the origin of Adams’s most famous story, but also about his own ... more >
POSTSCRIPT: ELIE WIESEL, 1928-2016 – There have been a lot of beautiful and moving tributes to Elie Wiesel, whose death at 87 has provided an opportunity to reflect on his invaluable work on the Holocaust and on unjust human suffering. This essay, from Hebrew University’s Bernard Avishai, contemplates the source of Wiesel’s “moral authority” ... more >