05/10/2012 @ 03:00PM
Historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus remembers Maurice Sendak, who
05/09/2012 @ 10:00AM
Madalynne Reuter, former longtime news editor of Publishers Weekly, fiction writer, and mother, died May 3 at the Amsterdam House nursing home in Manhattan. She was 90.
05/08/2012 @ 10:00AM
Legendary author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died in Connecticut on Tuesday, May 8, following a stroke. He was 83.
04/06/2012 @ 07:00PM
"Rich refused to turn away from difficulty. Her relentless, urgent mission to articulate through singular poetics the personal and political issues of our time never failed her," writes Jill Bialosky.
03/15/2012 @ 03:00PM
Author and artist Thomas Locker, who illustrated more than 30 children’s books, died in Albany, N.Y. on Friday, March 9. He was 74.
02/27/2012 @ 12:00PM
Jan Berenstain, co-creator of the Berenstain Bears series, died on February 24 at the age of 88, after a stroke.
01/04/2012 @ 12:00AM
Fred Kerner, editor emeritus of Harlequin Books, died on December 24. He was 90.
12/16/2011 @ 12:00AM
In the span of about a week and a half in December, the comics world has lost three iconic, veteran creators.
10/27/2011 @ 03:00PM
Florence Parry Heide, author of more than 100 books for children, died at home in Kenosha, Wis., on October 24. She was 92.
10/13/2011 @ 03:00PM
Necia (Nicky) Salan, founder of Cover to Cover, a San Francisco bookselling institution renowned for placing children’s books in equal prominence as adult books, died at her home on October 10, after a long illness. She was 77.
The Roundup for Obituaries
Publishing news from across the Web
The legendary sci-fi author died on Monday. Here is a short look back at her life and word in Locus Online.
Henry Carlisle, who was an editor at Knopf and also an author, died Monday in San Fracisco.
Mark Twain now has his own stamp! From the USPS.
The NYT obit for the first publisher of the New York Review of Books.
Barbara Vey
While I'm visiting St. Louis, author Jeannie Lin caught a Tweet I posted about coffee at a local cafe. She contacted me and we met up for a wonderful visit....
Josie Leavitt
We are blessed with a rich and vibrant core of local authors in our town. When a customer comes to us with his or her book we do our best to herald the occasion. I'm discovering that my idea of herald...
Rose Fox
Help compile lists of Asian and Asian-American SF/F authors....
Adam Boretz
Our second feature in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 takes us inside a Random House Audio recording studio to see how an audiobook gets made as Marcus Samuelsson records his memoir, Yes, Chef...
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