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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAuthors I like who recently died--DickFrancis, DianaWynneJones, BMichaels/EPeters,DorothyDunnet
Also Emma Lathen
And you?
Was really shocked and surprised to learn of their deaths.
How can we not have more adventures of Amelia Peabody? No more stories set in the racing world? Or more quirky fantasy like Howl's Moving Castle? And where is John Putnam Thatcher when we really need him (Emma Lathen)? No more worlds like The Lymond Chronicles?
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Authors I like who recently died--DickFrancis, DianaWynneJones, BMichaels/EPeters,DorothyDunnet (Original Post)
bobbieinok
Sep 2018
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ms liberty
(8,600 posts)1. I am brokenhearted at the loss of Barbara Mertz
Amelia Peabody & family are about my favorites ever. I'm in permanent mourning for Douglas Adams, too.
dweller
(23,663 posts)2. Philip Roth
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Fla Dem
(23,761 posts)3. Sue Grafton of the Kinsey Milhone Alphabet Mysteries. December 28, 2017
I know it was last December, but still within a year.
Sue Grafton, Whose Detective Novels Spanned the Alphabet, Dies at 77
Sue Grafton, a prolific author of detective novels known for an alphabetically titled series that began in 1982 with A Is for Alibi, died on Thursday night in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was 77.
Her daughter Jamie Clark, announcing the death on the authors website and Facebook page, said Ms. Grafton had cancer.
With the publication of her latest book in August, Ms. Graftons alphabetical series had reached Y Is for Yesterday.
She was adamant that her books would never be turned into movies or TV shows, her daughter wrote, and in that same vein, she would never allow a ghost writer to write in her name. Because of all of those things, and out of the deep abiding love and respect for our dear sweet Sue, as far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/obituaries/sue-grafton-dies-best-selling-mystery-author.html
Sue Grafton, a prolific author of detective novels known for an alphabetically titled series that began in 1982 with A Is for Alibi, died on Thursday night in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was 77.
Her daughter Jamie Clark, announcing the death on the authors website and Facebook page, said Ms. Grafton had cancer.
With the publication of her latest book in August, Ms. Graftons alphabetical series had reached Y Is for Yesterday.
She was adamant that her books would never be turned into movies or TV shows, her daughter wrote, and in that same vein, she would never allow a ghost writer to write in her name. Because of all of those things, and out of the deep abiding love and respect for our dear sweet Sue, as far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/obituaries/sue-grafton-dies-best-selling-mystery-author.html
Brother Buzz
(36,467 posts)4. Elmore Leonard
Oh, and Robert B. Parker, but I am happy to see Robert Knott continuing the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch series.