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Obituary: Tom Spurgeon, Comics Journalist, Editor, Blogger, Dead at 50
Tom Spurgeon, author, editor, comics critic, blogger, and executive director of the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus comics festival, died of unknown causes in Columbus, Ohio, on November 13.
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Obituary: Ernest J. Gaines, Novelist of the Black South, Dies at 86
Ernest J. Gaines, award-winning author of the acclaimed novel 'The Autobiography of Jane Pittman,' and a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant recipient, died of a heart attack at his home in Oscar, La. He was 86.
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Obituary: Richard Jackson
Legendary children’s book publisher, editor, and author Richard “Dick” Jackson died on October 2 from complications of multiple myeloma at his home in Towson, Md.
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Obituary: Mordicai Gerstein
Caldecott Award-winning children's author and illustrator Mordicai Gerstein, widely lauded for his mixed-media compositions featuring fluid pen-and-ink lines, died September 24 in Northampton, Mass., at the age of 83.
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Booksource Founder Sandy Jaffe Dies at 80
Sanford “Sandy” Jaffe, founder and CEO The Booksource, a book wholesaler and bindery focused on the education and library market, died September 12, He was 80.
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Random House Publisher Susan Kamil Dies at 69
Susan Kamil, publisher of Random House and a veteran publishing executive whose career spanned more than 40 years, died on Sunday, September 8, from complications from lung cancer. She was 69.
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Obituary: Paule Marshall, Novelist of the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora, Dies at 90
Paule Marshall, an acclaimed novelist hailed for her literary representation of the African-American and Caribbean diasporan experience, died August 12 in Richmond, Va.
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Obituary: Charles Santore
Illustrator Charles Santore, widely recognized for the realistically detailed paintings in his interpretations of beloved children’s stories, died on August 11 at age 84.
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Obituary: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Lee Bennett Hopkins, passionate educator and prolific children’s poet and anthologist, died on August 8 in Cape Coral, Fla., at the age of 81.
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Toni Morrison, Who Was America's Major Living Novelist, Dies at 88
Toni Morrison, one of the great voices of 20th-century American literature and the only African-American laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, died in New York on August 5, Knopf has confirmed. She was 88.
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