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Saturday, December 2, 2023

FAMOUS WRITERS THAT DIED IN 2023

Martin Amis: August 25, 1949 - May 19, 2023: age 73: throat cancer: fiction writer known for "Money" 

Russell Banks: March 28, 1940 - January 7, 2023: age 84: cancer: fiction writer known for "Cloudsplitter"

Ted Bell: July 3, 1946 - January 20, 2023: age 76: stroke: known for thrillers such as "Hawke" 

Eve Bunting: December 19, 1928 - October 1, 2023: age: 94: pneumonia: children's author known for "The Wall"

A.S. Byatt: August 24, 1936 - November 16, 2023: age 87: : pneumonia: fiction writer known for "Possession"

Carol Higgins Clark: July 28, 1956 - June 12, 2023: age 66: appendix cancer: mystery writer known for "Decked" 

Tim Dorsey: January 25, 1961 - November 26, 2023: age: 62: heart failure: known for his mysteries such as "Hurricane Punch" 

Ian Falconer: August 25, 1959 - March 7, 2023: age 63: kidney failure: children's author known for "Olivia" series

Christopher Fowler: March 26, 1953 - March 3, 2023: age 69: cancer: known for the novel "The Book of Forgotten Authors" 

Julie Garwood: December 26, 1944 - June 8, 2023: age 78: lung cancer: romance writer known for "Saving Grace"

Mary Ann Hoberman: August 12, 1930 - July 7, 2023: age 92: natural causes: known for the children's book "The Seven Silly Eaters" 

John Jakes: March 31, 1932 - March 11, 2023: age 90: natural causes: fiction writer known for the "North and South" series

Milan Kundera: April 1, 1929 - July 11, 2023: age 94: natural causes: fiction writer known for "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

Harold Kushner: April 3,1945 - April 28, 2023: age 88: natural causes: self help writer known for "When Bad Things Happen to Good People"

Cormac McCarthy: July 20, 1933 - June 13, 2023: 89: natural causes: fiction writer known for "No Country for Old Men"

Anne Perry: October 28, 1932 - April 10, 2023: age 84: heart failure: mystery writer known for the "Thomas Pitt" series