Deaths in November - 2018

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Deaths in November - 2018

1varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 7, 2018, 10:01 am

2elkiedee
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 7, 2018, 9:11 am

Your author link goes to the details of a writer on religion, including Creationism, who died in 2014, rather than this man, who is on LT as Paul Lionel Zimmerman.

3varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 7, 2018, 10:02 am

Ack! Thanks. Hopefully fixed now.

4varielle
marraskuu 8, 2018, 8:01 am

5varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 9, 2018, 11:03 am

Photographer Jean Mohr died November 3 at the age of 93. His work can be seen in A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor and At the Edge of the World.

Sociologist Devah Pager died November 2 at the age of 46. She wrote Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration .

6varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 10, 2018, 11:23 am

Publisher Juris Jurjevics died November 7 at the age of 75. He wrote The Trudeau Vector and Red Flags.

7varielle
marraskuu 12, 2018, 3:27 pm

8varielle
marraskuu 14, 2018, 8:09 am

Professor and social critic Herbert London died November 11 at the age of 79. His numerous books include Americas Secular Challenge: The Rise of a New National Religion and Why Are They Lying to Our Children?.

9varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 15, 2018, 1:00 pm

Biologist Dorothy L. Cheney died November 9 at the age of 68. Her books include Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind , How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species and The Social Origins of Language .

Heiress Caroline Rose Hunt died November 13 at the age of 95. She wrote Primrose Past: The 1848 Journal of Young Lady Primrose .

Country musician Roy Clark died November 15 at the age of 85. His works include Roy Clark Deluxe Big Note Guitar Song Book , Roy Clark's Bluegrass Banjo Bible and his autobiography My Life -- In Spite of Myself!.

10varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 16, 2018, 10:14 am

Philosopher Herbert Fingarette died November 2 at the age of 97. His books include Confucius: The Secular As Sacred , Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease and Self-Deception.

Museum founder H. Peter Stern died November 12 at the age of 90. His work includes Earth, Sky, and Sculpture: Storm King Art Center and Louise Bourgeois.

Playwright and novelist William Goldman died November 15 at the age of 87. He is best known for The Princess Bride and Marathon Man.

11PensiveCat
marraskuu 16, 2018, 10:29 am

Noooooo William Goldman!

12Lyndatrue
marraskuu 16, 2018, 12:51 pm

>11 PensiveCat: I'm sad that he's gone, and he was certainly one of the good humans out there. I just spent time reading (of all things) this entry on IMDb, and I recommend it.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001279/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_qt_sm#quotes

Some people make us better for having lived. Rest well, sir, and thank you.

13PhaedraB
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 17, 2018, 5:02 pm

Author of many New Age books, Shakti Gawain passed away on November 11 at the age of 70. She found fame when Oprah Winfrey recommended Gawain's first book Creative Visualization on Winfrey's television program.

14varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 18, 2018, 8:20 am

15varielle
marraskuu 19, 2018, 8:42 am

Poet and translator Alistair Elliot died November 3 at the age of 86. His works include Roman Food Poems, French love poems , and Italian Landscape Poems.

16varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 20, 2018, 11:46 am

Esteemed Mexican author Fernando del Paso died November 14 at the age of 83. His work includes Palinuro of Mexico, News from the Empire (Latin American Literature) and José Trigo.

Professor Aldyr Schlee best known for designing the Brazilian soccer team's jerseys, died November 15 at the age of 83. His work includes Contos de Futebol and Os limites do impossível. Contos Gardelianos .

17varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 21, 2018, 10:14 am

18varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 22, 2018, 2:32 pm

Advertising executive Jane Maas died November 16 at the age of 86. Her books include Mad Women and How to Advertise.

Former librarian of Congress James H. Billington died November 20 at the age of 89. His books includeThe Icon and the AXE, Virtue Public and Private and Fire in the Minds of Men.

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Muokkaaja: marraskuu 23, 2018, 11:32 am

Author Janet Paisley died November 9 at the age of 70. Her books include White Rose Rebel and Warrior Daughter.

20varielle
marraskuu 24, 2018, 1:43 pm

Zen master Bernard Glassman died November 4 at the age of 79. His books I include Instructions to the Cook and The Dude and the Zen Master.

21Lyndatrue
marraskuu 24, 2018, 5:10 pm

Renowned filmmaker, and author of The World is Ever Changing, Nicolas Roeg passed away November 23.

22varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 25, 2018, 1:58 pm

23varielle
marraskuu 26, 2018, 8:38 am

Basketball player Willie Naulls died November 22 at the age of 84. He wrote Levitation’s View.

24varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 27, 2018, 1:02 pm

25varielle
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 28, 2018, 9:17 am

Restaurateur Tom Margittai died November 23 at the age of 90. His books include The Four Seasons: The Ultimate Book of Food, Wine and Elegant Dining and The Four Seasons Cookbook .

British politician and former Bletchley Park code breaker, Lady Jean Trumpington died November 26 at the age of 96. Her autobiography was called Coming up Trumps: A Memoir.

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joulukuu 1, 2018, 3:45 am

29elkiedee
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 1, 2018, 5:29 pm

Memoirist, prolific poster on social media and political activist Harry Leslie Smith died on Wednesday 28 November aged 95. He was a World War II veteran, a migrant from England to Canada in the 1950s, and a carpet dealer. He turned to writing memoirs and campaigning for various social justice causes in his last years, after his wife and one of his sons died. His books include Love Among the Ruins and Harry's Last Stand.

30varielle
joulukuu 4, 2018, 9:54 am

Poet and translator Anthony Edkins has died at the age of 91. His work includes The Poetry of Luis Cernuda and Worry Beads.

31varielle
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 5, 2018, 1:39 pm

Tennis instructor who brought the love of tennis to D.C., Allie Ritzenberg died November 22 at the age of 100. He wrote Capital Tennis: A Memoir .

Children's book author Barbara Brooks Wallace died November 27 at the age of 95. Her books include Peppermints in the Parlor, The Twin in the Tavern and The Trouble with Miss Switch .

33varielle
joulukuu 7, 2018, 7:58 am

Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz died November 29 at the age of 55. She wrote Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in Pursuit of Health.

34varielle
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 11, 2018, 10:35 am

Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso died November 30 at the age of 85. He wrote Fire Under the Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner and Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk.

35varielle
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 14, 2018, 11:02 am

Architect William J. Conklin died November 26 at the age of 95. He wrote Museums of the Andes, Brooklyn's City Hall and Chavín : art, architecture, and culture.

Actress Sondra Locke died November 3 at the age of 74. Her autobiography was called The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey.

Creator of a popular miniature town on Instagram, Michael Paul Smith died November 19 at the age of 67. His work can be seen in Elgin Park: An Ideal American Town and ELGIN PARK: Visual Memories of Midcentury America at 1/24th scale.

37Crypto-Willobie
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 14, 2021, 12:24 pm

Rock journalist and producer, and latterly a magician, Richard Robinson (#5) died Nov 15 2018 at the age of 73. Among other titles he wrote Rock Revolution.

38varielle
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 16, 2021, 7:42 pm

Wrong year. Sorry.

39Crypto-Willobie
tammikuu 16, 2021, 6:56 pm

>38 varielle:

oops this thread is Nov 2018, not Nov 2020..

40varielle
tammikuu 16, 2021, 7:41 pm

Ack!

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