The Writer’s News
The Writer’s News keeps you informed about new developments in the writing world, including award and publication announcements, news from AWP and the field, and updates about important literary figures.
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May 8, 2012
Maurice Sendak Dies
The author of bedtime reading classics such as Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, died on May 8 in a Connecticut hospital after suffering a stroke a few days previously. Read more...
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April 23, 2012
Novelist Doris Betts Has Died
Doris Betts, author of six novels and three short story collections, died of lung cancer at 79, at her home near Pittsboro, North Carolina on April 21, 2012. Read more...
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March 30, 2012
Feminist Poet Icon, Adrienne Rich, has Died
Adrienne Rich, 82, died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis on Tuesday, March 28, at her home in Santa Cruz, CA. Read more...
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February 24, 2012
Legendary Publisher Barney Rosset Has Died
Barney Rosset died at age 89 after having heart surgery on February 21, 2012. Read more...
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February 2, 2012
Nobel Poet Laureate Wislawa Szymborska Dies
Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Poetry, Poland's Wislawa Szymborska, 88, died of lung cancer in her sleep on the evening of February 1, 2012. Read more...
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December 8, 2011
Ruth Stone (1915-2011)
Ruth Stone, an award-winning poet who published most of her work after the age of 70, died on November 19 of natural causes at her home in Ripton, Vermont, according to the Huffington Post. Read more...
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May 1, 2011
John Haines 1924-2010
John Haines, 86, died on March 2, 2011, according to the Anchorage Daily News-Miner. Read more...
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April 21, 2011
Jeanne Leiby (1964-2011)
Jeanne Leiby, 46, died in a car accident on April 19th. Leiby was the editor, since 2008, of the Southern Review and a professor at Louisiana State University. Read more...
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March 1, 2011
Reynolds Price (1933-2011)
Reynolds Price, 77, died on Thursday January 20, 2011 in Durham, N.C. after suffering a heart attack. Read more...
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February 1, 2011
Carla Cohen (1936-2010)
Carla Cohen, famed owner of the iconic Washington, D.C. bookstore, Politics & Prose, died on October 11 as the result of a year-long battle with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare form of cancer. Read more...
