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Very sad news. Here is the BBC page. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558 Fans of movies taken from his novels will always think of Sir Alec Guiness as George Smiley and more recently Gary Oldman. However Smiley was also played in earlier films by Rupert Davies (The Spy who...

The guy was 103, and it may be that few remember Hotchner, but long ago he wrote a fairly controversial biography of Hemingway, and was a friend and business associate of Paul Newman. Together they founded "Newman's Own" foods, and ran the Hole in the Wall fund. I remember him fondly because...

Most notably the author of True Grit, but he wrote a small number of other things, also pretty good fun. But True Grit is surely a classic, worth a read even if you've seen both of the movies.

I wasn't always on her wavelength but she was one hell of a good writer. Sorry to see another one go. Please excuse misprint in title, will try to correct.

Not a commonly known character nowadays, Paul Krassner was credited by some as being the founding father of Yippies, a satirist and publisher of a sometimes amusing little underground paper called The Realist. Often good for a laugh, he tended to be irreverent about just about everything...

Possibly the most influential writer of his generation: I remember reading Radical Chic way back in sophomore year in high school in New York Magazine, and having trouble controlling my laughter in the library. I was a big-time young liberal at that point in my life and yet I could see a lot...

My reader has been reading to me Margaret Forster's book about the houses she has lived in, 'My Life in Houses'. This was recommended by a Librarian and we are very much enjoying it. As I had never read any of her books before, I thought it was about time I tried some! I read right through one...

A giant of her field, and a huge influence on my reading and thoughts over the years. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html I can't say I read all of her work, but I loved what I read. I still have a copy of the...

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/sci-fi-author-tech-advocate-012900671.html I used to read his column in Byte magazine all the time and liked his books with Larry Niven and his Janissaries series.

The tear-jerking children's classic about a group of rabbits in search of a new home after the destruction of their warren was first published in 1972. The tale, first told by Adams on a long car journey with his daughters, turned into a best-seller. Adams, a civil servant from Newbury in...

Noted science fiction author Sheri S. Tepper (Shirley Douglas) died on Saturday aged 87. While best known for sci-fi, often with feminist and ecological themes (such as The Gate to Women’s Country and Grass), she also authored mysteries (as A. J. Orde and B. J. Oliphant), horror novels (as E...

And I thought Jeanette Winterson was a bit ott... One Richard Brittain, whose previous claim-to-fame was winning Countdown (a UK television game show) was so intensely angered by a one-star review of his novel The World Rose that he tracked down the reviewer and smashed a bottle over her head...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/true-crime-author-ann-rule-dies-at-age-83/2015/07/28/1b95ba82-34fb-11e5-b835-61ddaa99c73e_story.html I read every book she ever wrote. All other true crime authors pale by comparison. If you disagree, please tell me who you would recommend.

The prolific science fiction and fantasy writer Tanith Lee died on Sunday . She was 67. Tor obit. Guardian.

Just head it on the radio :( Link... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

Just heard that Farley Mowat died. A grand storyteller for adults and kids alike. I first ran into his stuff long ago when on an impulse I bought a book called The Grey Seas Under, the story of the Foundation Franklin, a boat converted into an oceangoing rescue tug. You'd hardly expect...

Gabriel García Márquez, the author of my favorite novel, Cien años de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, died Thursday in Mexico City at age 87. I first read the novel in Spanish in high school in Mexico. From the very first (and very famous) sentence, it grabbed me, and I loved all of...

Well, not yet as he only died today and has yet to be buried. Read some of his books. Fast reads, but not very memorable. Inspired many, I believe, screenwriters especially. I reckon he lived as well as he wanted. A life better than many can expect.

At present, my braille books are short stories by Elizabeth Taylor - no not that one!and I wonder what others think of them. I have only been introduced to her writing recently and agree with the view of one of my readers, who is reading 'Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont' to me, that she is a very...

I have just heard it announced on the BBC that Iain M. Banks has died of his cancer today. They said he had been deeply moved by all the support expressed on his website, and also that he was recently presented by his publishers with copies of his last novel, having brought forward the...

So I should switch from beer to sherry to win the Language Award? ;) http://flavorwire.com/193101/weird-writing-habits-of-famous-authors (Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Francine Prose, John Cheever, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, William Faulkner.)

Books only. No short stories, poems, or screenplays. I've got two in the works: The Faerie Preserve, a story about a man whose cat drags home an injured faerie; and Lazarus Flats, a story about an elderly scientist who develops a technique for transferring consciousness to another body, gets...

Since we seem to be on a book roll here, are there any authors who have written a few things you really like, but when you try their other works you don't like them? Some of mine are: Dodie Smith - loved I Capture the Castle, couldn't stand anything else she wrote E.F. Benson - love the Lucia...

Far sadder than the firing of an American racist is the passing of a great American writer (Kurt Vonnegut) and a great American actor (Roscoe Lee Brown): and

Please feel free to expand on your answer- in your opinion what did he do right, what (if anything) did he do wrong. Also, do you prefer his adult novels or his teen fiction?

I've talked to a few Australian authors who have sold in the US and the UK. Now, while European and UK countries usually aren't too bad, distributors in the US demand that literature written with Australian terms must be translated. Doonas must be 'quilts', utes 'pickups' etc. In writing...

can anybody tell me some good skeptic authors that steer mostly towards religion, and their books. I would love to read up on the subject of religion from a point of view that isn't "cause god said so, it's in the bible"