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I've been noting the passing lately of authors whose names are in the 501 list; I'll note them here when I think of it.
Nadine Gordimer (July's People)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/nadine-gordimer-nobel-prize-winning-anti-apartheid-a...
Doris Lessing (The Golden Notebook, Shikasta)
http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2013/11/the-8-most-surprising-things-doris-...
Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart)
http://www.cbc.ca/books/2013/03/from-the-archives-chinua-achebe-and-the-cbc.html
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/gabriel-garcia-marquez-nobel-winning-author-dead-at-...
Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/farley-mowat-dead-at-92-1.2634772
Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/maurice-sendak-author-and-illustr...
Nadine Gordimer (July's People)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/nadine-gordimer-nobel-prize-winning-anti-apartheid-a...
Doris Lessing (The Golden Notebook, Shikasta)
http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2013/11/the-8-most-surprising-things-doris-...
Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart)
http://www.cbc.ca/books/2013/03/from-the-archives-chinua-achebe-and-the-cbc.html
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/gabriel-garcia-marquez-nobel-winning-author-dead-at-...
Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/farley-mowat-dead-at-92-1.2634772
Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/maurice-sendak-author-and-illustr...
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Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35620368
One of the books I'd read before discovering the list, and a favourite author of mine :(
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35620368
One of the books I'd read before discovering the list, and a favourite author of mine :(
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Historians' obituaries don't always get the same press as well-known authors of fiction. Here are some authors from the list's History section who have passed that I overlooked:
Martin Druon, "The Accursed Kings" starting with The Iron King, 1918-2009
Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, 1938-2012
Maria Rosa Menocal, The Ornament of the World, 1953-2012
Simon Leys (i.e. Pierre Ryckmans), Chinese Shadows, 1935-2014
Peter Gay, The Naked Heart, 1923-2015
Bernard Lewis, Islam in History, 1916-2018
Jan Morris, Pax Britannica, 1926-2020
Martin Druon, "The Accursed Kings" starting with The Iron King, 1918-2009
Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, 1938-2012
Maria Rosa Menocal, The Ornament of the World, 1953-2012
Simon Leys (i.e. Pierre Ryckmans), Chinese Shadows, 1935-2014
Peter Gay, The Naked Heart, 1923-2015
Bernard Lewis, Islam in History, 1916-2018
Jan Morris, Pax Britannica, 1926-2020
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Another one I missed, Mavis Gallant, From the Fifteenth District, 1922-2014. I had no idea she was Canadian. She spent much of her later life in Paris, however, so that may be why.
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Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter, 1940-2023
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Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1929-2023
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A.S. Byatt, Possession, 1936 - 2023