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    Obituary: Eva Ibbotson

    | 10/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

    Author Eva Ibbotson died October 20 at her home in Newcastle, England. She was 85. In a career that spanned three decades, she wrote more than 20 novels for children and adults.

  • Obituary: Stuart Hample

    | 09/28/2010 @ 12:00AM

    Artist and author Stuart Hample, who published several children's books as Stoo Hample, died September 19 at his home in New York City. He was 84.

  • Obituary: Joan Steiner

    | 09/13/2010 @ 12:00AM

    Joan Steiner, creator of the Look-Alikes series of books, died September 8 of cancer at her home in Claverack, N.Y. Steiner's first children's book, Look-Alikes, was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in 1998. Look-Alikes was named a best book of the year by several publications, including PW; the series sold more than one million copies in 16 languages worldwide.

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    Thomas Guinzburg, Paris Review Founder and Viking President, Dies at 84

    By Craig Morgan Teicher | 09/10/2010 @ 12:00AM

    Thomas Guinzburg, one of the founders of the Paris Review and the former president of Viking, the publishing house founded by his father, died on Wednesday at 84. He was listening to the U.S. Open in Manhattan when he died, according to the New York Times.

  • Missing Barry Hannah

    By Jeff Martin | 04/12/2010 @ 12:00AM

    The 17th Annual Oxford Conference for the Book, held March 4—6, in Oxford, Miss., was to be a special celebration this year, dedicated to the award-winning author, teacher, and local legend, Barry Hannah. Instead the conference became an emotional final farewell, after the 67-year-old Hannah died suddenly on March 1, just three days before the event intended to honor his life and work was...

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    Seeking Salinger: Meditation Center Remembers Late Author

    Marcia Z. Nelson | 02/24/2010 @ 08:00PM

    Four letters that J.D. Salinger wrote to the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York in the 1960s and 1970s reveal the author's familiarity with meditation and the teachings of Vedanta. The letters have now been posted to the center's Web site. Cosmic coincidence? Salinger's home in New Hampshire wasn't far from Skylight Paths in Vermont, which publishes material from the New York center.

  • Obituary: Sheila Lukins

    By Lynn Andriani | 08/31/2009 @ 01:59PM

    Sheila Lukins, co-author of The Silver Palate Cookbook and The New Basics Cookbook, and author Celebrate!, Ten and other cookbooks, died yesterday. The cause was brain cancer, diagnosed three months ago. Lukins was 66.

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