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Obituary: Robie Harris
Children's author, educator, and free speech champion Robie Harris, best known for her stories about young children's powerful emotions and her frequently challenged and banned books on human sexuality, including 'It's Perfectly Normal,' died on January 6 at 83.
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Terry Bisson, Award-Winning Sci-Fi Author, Dies at 81
The award-winning science fiction author, whose short story “Bears Discover Fire” swept the genre's major awards in 1990, died on January 10 following a recent cancer diagnosis.
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Waterside Founder William Gladstone Dies at 74
William Gladstone, the literary agent, publisher, author, and founder of Waterside Productions, died on December 27.
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Marc Jaffe, Editor Whose Work Spanned Nearly a Century, Dies at 102
The former editorial director of Bantam and Ballantine and founder of Villard Books at Random House and an eponymous imprint at Houghton Mifflin, whose long and storied career in trade book publishing lasted into his final hours, died on December 31.
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Former Knopf Associate Publicity Director Michelle Somers Dies at 50
Somers, who died in her Brooklyn home this past August, worked on Justice Sonia Sotomayor's memoir, two novels by Toni Morrison, and Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird's Pulitzer-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer in her 13-year tenure at Knopf.
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Donald Barliant, Co-owner of Chicago's Barbara's Bookstore, Dies at 86
An innovative bookseller, Barliant oversaw the expansion of his bookstore into a chain that today has 11 stores, and at one point had 50 locations across the U.S.
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Roy Gainsburg, Former St. Martin's Press President, Dies at 91
Roy Gainsburg, president of St. Martin's Press from 1987 to 1997, died on December 9. He was 91.
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Larry Hughes, Longtime William Morrow Chief, Dies at 98
Larry Hughes, who began his publishing career as an assistant editor at Pocket Books in 1949 and rose to become chairman of the Hearst Trade Book Group some 40 years later, died on November 14.
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Jack Artenstein, Former S&S Group President and Publisher, Dies at 83
After executive roles at Grosset & Dunlap and Simon & Schuster, Artenstein launched RGA/Lowell House in 1984, and sold the company to the NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group in 1998.
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Sharon Fitzhenry, Canadian Distributor and Publisher, Dies at 73
Fitzhenry, the president and CEO of Canadian distribution and publishing company Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd., died on August 26. A celebration of her life will be held on November 14.
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Ken Norwick, First Amendment and IP Lawyer, Dies at 82
Ken Norwick, whose clients included a number of prominent authors as well as the Association of American Literary Agents, died on October 30.
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Jordan Miller, Cofounder of Academy Chicago Publishers, Dies at 97
Miller, who, with his late wife, Anita Miller, founded Academy Chicago Publishers in 1975, died in Chicago on October 18.
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Pioneering Bookseller Hillel Stavis Dies at 78
WordsWorth Books founder Stavis, a leader in computerized inventory and online selling and cofounder of the WordStock inventory and POS system, died on October 20.
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Stephen Rubin, Prominent and Punchy Publisher, Dies at 81
Stephen Rubin, the outspoken and influential publishing executive whose publication of works by such authors as Dan Brown, John Grisham, and Michael Wolff made him a force in the book business over the past 40 years, died on October 13 in Manhattan.
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Louise Glück, Nobel Prize–Winning Poet, Dies at 80
The celebrated American poet and winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature died on October 13 at her home in Cambridge, Mass.
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Obituary: Janet Taylor Lisle
Acclaimed children's author Janet Taylor Lisle, lauded for her novels featuring complex characters in stories blending everyday life with elements of mystery and magic, died on October 5 in Boston. She was 76.
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Obituary: Eve Bunting
Award-winning, versatile, and prolific children's author Eve Bunting died on October 1 in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 94.
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Obituary: Ed Young
Caldecott Medalist Ed Young, best known for his reinterpretations of folktales and legends from his native China, died September 29. He was 91.
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Obituary: Echo Brown
Author and performer Echo Brown, widely praised for her genre-fluid YA novels that blend memoir and magical realism, died September 16 from renal failure. She was 39.
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Neal Sofman, Longtime Bookstore Owner, Dies at 75
The co-owner of San Francisco's Bookshop West Portal and founder of onetime Bay Area bookselling staple A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, died on September 6.
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