Tag: death
For these 12 authors, the drama wasn’t confined to the pages of their works. Each died in controversial and, in some cases, highly unusual circumstances. 1. Primo Levi, …
Sometimes, when folks get the dreaded “C” word from their doctor (or a host of other terminal illnesses), they retreat into their homes and withdraw from friends and family, …
Even though Jesse Andrews takes on a cliché topic in Me and Earl and The Dying Girl, he manages to spin the typical narrative on its head and craft a poignant …
Author and biographer Nicholas Mosley died on February 28th. He was 93. Mosley was an experimental writer best known for his novel Accident. It told of the death of …
North Korea has developed a reputation for being the hermit kingdom. Few reporters are let in, and when the do make it in, the state heavily regulates who reporters …
*WARNING: Spoiler Alert!* One of the best ways to shock an audience during an ongoing series is for creators to kill off a main character. In the comics world …
On January 15, 2017, the world of children’s publishing mourned the loss of writer and illustrator, Babette Cole. Throughout her life and upon her death, Babette Cole has been …
December 27th was a dark day for literature, acting, and artistry as a whole. Along with Carrie Fisher‘s death, Richard Adams was confirmed to have died on Saturday, the …
Eleanor Hicks
November 19, 2016
Book Lists, Book Lovers, Classics, Fantasy, George R.R. Martin, Grab Bag, J. R. R. Tolkien, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Young Adult
As we demonstrated last week, the world of fiction is full of strange and grisly deaths. So full, in fact, that the strangest and grisliest refused to be confined …
Eleanor Hicks
November 12, 2016
Book Lists, Charles Dickens, Classics, Crime Fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, George R.R. Martin, Horror, J.K. Rowling, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, WTF, Young Adult
Death comes for us all, including our favorite book characters. Sometimes, those fictional deaths are heartbreaking. Othertimes, they’re deserved. And sometimes…well, sometimes they’re just plain weird. And kind of …
At the age of 84, the author of the popular young adult novel Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt, has died in her Connecticut home. Her husband, Samuel, confirmed that the author passed …
Most, if not all, writers must surely hope that their words will live on after they have shuffled off this mortal coil. To add value to their poetry and …
Life is hard; there’s no way around that fact. It’s even harder when you’re a child, and painful events don’t yet make any sense. Thankfully, many authors have created …
We all come to favor certain authors for a myriad of divergent reasons. However, a common denominator among readers is a touch of intrigue surrounding an author, questions unanswered …
The topic of death is not one that most are excited to speak about or bring up. With children, especially, parents and other adult loved ones may be out …