R.I.P. 2014

Among the writers we lost in 2014, the Maestro: Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  Peter Mathiessen, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka (earlier known as Leroi Jones), Farley Mowatt.

Fictionists Nadine Gordimer, P.D. James, Thomas Berger, Mavis Gallant, Sue Townsend, Billie Letts.

Nadine Gordimer

Mark Strand

Poets Mark Strand, Galway Kinnell, Bill Knott, Maxine Kumin, Ron Loewinsohn, Barry Spacks, Diann Blakely, Robert Peters.  Poet and translator Alaistar Reed.

Jonathan Schell, Nigel Calder, historian James MacGregor Burns, Joe McGinnis, critics Richard Eder and Charles Champlin.  Editors Ben Bradlee and Michael Janeway, publisher Richard L. Grossman.

Science fiction writers Frank M Robinson, Michael Shea, Neal Barrett, Jr.  Childrens writer Walter Dean Myers.

May they rest in peace.  Their work lives on.