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PublishedDecember 25, 2019
Johanna Lindsey, master of romance novels, dies at 67
She sold more than 60 million copies in at least 12 languages – a book every eight seconds, Avon calculated in 1993.
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PublishedDecember 25, 2019
Elizabeth Spencer, prolific short-story writer and chronicler of the South, dies at 98
She often spent years crafting her novels, but 'The Light in the Piazza' was written in a single, cabin-feverish month in Montreal.
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PublishedDecember 25, 2019
Joseph Segel, founder of the Franklin Mint and QVC shopping network, dies at 88
By advertising in magazines and the Sunday supplements of newspapers, the Franklin Mint became a household name. More than 500,000 people subscribed to its monthly magazine.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2019
Felix Rohatyn, Wall Street wizard who helped save New York City from bankruptcy, dies at 91
The city had been swamped by $6 billion in short-term obligations, and creditors were balking at its attempts to borrow more.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2019
Maine author Andrew Clements, who wrote children’s book ‘Frindle,’ dies at 70
Clements wrote more than 80 children's books, including the text of picture books about a pampered Egyptian cat, an unbecoming fish and a Christmas in which Mrs. Claus stands in for Santa.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2019
Jeanne Guillemin, pioneering researcher who uncovered a Cold War secret, dies at 76
She found that an anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk was tied to an accident at a laboratory known as Compound 19, where the Soviet military conducted research on biological weapons.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2019
Dorcas Hardy, first woman to lead Social Security Administration, dies at 73
One of the highest-profile women in official Washington, she displayed a brusquely efficient style that surprised some legislators and union leaders who had "expected someone polite and demure," she told the Christian Science Monitor.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2019
Adam Peiperl, creator of kinetic light sculptures, dies at 84
The Poland-born artist used polarized light to bring rainbow colors out of transparent plastic shapes.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2019
Clive James, Australian-born TV host, writer, critic and all-around wit, dies at 80
James built his early reputation as a television critic before moving to the other side of the camera as a popular TV interviewer and documentarian.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2019
William Ruckelshaus, who refused to join in Nixon’s ‘Saturday Night Massacre,’ dies at 87
As deputy attorney general in 1973, Ruckelshaus refused a presidential order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate break-in.
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