HORRIBLE YEAR FOR MOVIES.
BEST:
Anora
Flow
Furiosa: Mad Max
Junior #2
The Substance
WORST:
Abigail
Longlegs
Random Facts about Books and Movies
HORRIBLE YEAR FOR MOVIES.
BEST:
Anora
Flow
Furiosa: Mad Max
Junior #2
The Substance
WORST:
Abigail
Longlegs
HARRY BERNSTEIN: May 30, 1910 - June 3, 2011: age 101: natural causes: known for his biography "The Invisible Wall"
LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN: June 20, 1913 - June 4, 2011: age: 97: lung infection: known for her "The Cat Who" mysteries
JOSEPHINE HART: March 1, 1942 - June 2, 2011: age: 69: cancer: known for her novel "Damages"
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011: age: 62: throat cancer: known for his non-fiction book "God is Not Good"
RUSSELL HOBAN: February 4, 1925 - December 13, 2011: age: 86: heart failure: known for his children's book "A Bargain for Frances"
BRIAN JACQUES: June 15, 1939 - February 5, 2011: age: heart attack: known for his sci-fi "Redwall" series
DIANA WYNNE JONES: August 14, 1934 - March 25, 2011: age: 76: lung cancer: known for her sci-fi book "Howl's Moving Castle"
DICK KING-SMITH: March 27, 1922 - January 4, 2011: age: 88: natural causes: known for his novel "The Sheep-Pig"
STEVEN KROLL: August 11, 1941 - March 8, 2011: age: 69: after stomach surgery: known for his children's book "The Biggest Pumpkin Ever"
ANNE MCCAFFREY: April 1, 1926 - November 21, 2011: age 85: stroke: known for her "Acorna" sci-fi series
ALVIN SCHWARTZ: April 25, 1927 - March 14, 2011: age: 64: lymphoma: known for his children's book "Scary Stories to Tell in the Night"
RUTH THOMAS: January 4, 1927 - August 25, 2011: age: 84: natural causes: known for her children's book "The Runaways"
NEWTON THORNBURG: May 13, 1929 - May 9, 2011: age: 81: natural causes following a stroke: known for his novel "To Die in California"
JAN BERENSTAIN: July 26, 1923 - February 24, 2012: age: 88: stroke: known for the children's series "The Berenstain Bears"
MAEVE BINCHY: May 28, 1939 - July 30, 2012: age: 73: heart attack: known for her novels such as "Tara Road"
RAY BRADBURY: August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012: age: 91: natural causes: known for many novels such as "Fahrenheit 451"
HELEN GURLEY BROWN: February 18, 1922 - August 13, 2012: age: 90: natural causes: known for her non-fiction book "Sex and the Single Girl"
NORA EPHRON: May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012: age: 71: pneumonia and leukemia: known for her nonfiction book "I Feel Back About My Neck"
CARLOS FUENTES: November 11, 1928 - May 12, 2012: age: 83: internal bleeding: known for his novel "The Old Gringo"
JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE: July 2, 1919 - May 12, 2012: age: 92: heart failure: known for her children's books such as "My Side of the Mountain"
REGINALD HILL: April 3, 1936 - January 12, 2012: age: 75: brain tumor: known for his crime novels such as "Pictures of Perfection"
MISS READ: aka Dora Jessie Saint: April 17, 1913 - April 7, 2012: age 98: natural causes: know for her "Fairacre Series"
MAURICE SENDAK: June 10, 1928 - May 8, 2012: age: 83: stroke: known for his children's books such as "Where the Wild Things Are"
DONALD J. SOBOL: October 4, 1924 - July 11, 2012: age: 87: lymphoma: known for his children's series "Encyclopedia Brown"
GORE VIDAL: October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012: age: 86: pneumonia: known for his novels such as "Hollywood"
BILL WALLACE: August 1, 1947 - January 30, 2012: age: 65: lung cancer: known for his children's books such as "No Dogs Allowed"
IAIN BANKS: February 16, 1954 - June 9, 2013: age: 59: gallbladder cancer: known for his sci-fi books such as "The Wasp Factory"
JOYCE BROTHERS: October 20, 1927 - May 13, 2013: age: 85: respiratory failure: known for her non-fiction book "What Every Woman Should Known About Men"
TOM CLANCY: April 12, 1947 - October 1, 2013: age: 66: heart failure: known for many best sellers including "The Hunt for Red October"
ROBERT EBERT: June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013: age: 70: jaw cancer: known for his non-fiction book "Book of Film"
VINCE FLYNN: April 6, 1966 - June 19, 2013: age: 47: prostate cancer: known for his thrillers such "Extreme Measure"
E. L. KONIGSBURG: February 10, 1930 - April 19, 2013: age: 83: stroke: known for her children's book "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"
DORIS LESSING: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013: age: 94: kidney failure: known for her novel "The Golden Notebook"
ELMORE LEONARD: October 11, 1925 - August 20, 2013: age: 87: stroke: known for his thrillers such as "Get Shorty"
RICHARD MATHESON: February 20, 1926 - June 23, 2013: age: 87: natural causes: known for his sci-fi novel "I am Legend"
BARBARA PARK: April 21, 1947 - November 15, 2013: age: 66: ovarian cancer: known for her children's series "Junie B. Jones"
MAYA ANGELOU: April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014: age: 86: heart failure: known for her memoir "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
THOMAS BERGER: July 20, 1924 - July 13, 2014: age: 89: natural causes: known for his novel "Little Big Man"
NORMAN BRIDWELL: February 15, 1928 - December 12, 2014: age: 86: prostate cancer: known for his series "Clifford the Red Dog"
NADINE GORDIMER: November 20, 1923 - July 13, 2014: age: 90: natural causes: known for her novel "The Pickup"
KENT HARUF: February 24, 1943 - November 30, 2014: age: 71: lung disease: known for his novel "Plain Song"
P. D. JAMES: August 3, 1920 - November 27, 2014: age: 94: natural causes: known for her mysteries such as "Original Sin"
DANIEL KEYES: August 9, 1927 - June 15, 2014: Age: 86: pneumonia: known for his best seller "Flowers for Algernon"
BILLIE LETTS: May 30, 1938 - August 2, 2014: age: 76: pneumonia: known for her novel "Where the Heart Is"
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: March 6, 1927 - April 17, 2014: age: 87: pneumonia: known for his novel "100 Years of Solitude"
WALTER DEAN MYERS: August 12, 1937 - July 1, 2014: age: pneumonia: known for his young adult books such as "Fallen Angels"
ROBERT D. SAN SOUCI: October 10, 1946 - December 19, 2014: age: 68: results of a fall: known for his children's book "The Talking Eggs"
SUE TOWNSEND: April 2, 1946 - April 10, 2014: age: 68: stroke: known for her children's series "Adrian Mole"
JOHN BAYLEY: March 27, 1925 - January 12, 2015: age: 89: heart failure: known for his memoir "Elegy For Iris"
JACKIE COLLINS: October 4, 1937 - September 19, 2015: age: 77: breast cancer: known for her many novels such as "Hollywood Wives"
E. L. DOCTOROW: January 6, 1931 - July 21, 2015: age: 84: lung cancer: known for many novels including "Rag Time"
IVAN DOIG: June 27, 1939 - April 9, 2015: age: 75: myeloma cancer: known for his memoir "This House of Sky"
GUNTER GRASS: October 16, 1927 - April 13, 2015: age: lung infection: known for dozens of books including "The Tin Drum"
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH: June 1, 1937 - January 29, 2015: age: 77: kidney failure: known for her novel "The Thorn Birds"
TERRY PRATCHETT: April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015: age: 66: Alzheimer's disease: known for his many fantasy novels such as "The Colour of Magic"
RUTH RENDELL: February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015: age: 85: stroke: known for her Inspector Wexford series such as "The Veiled One"
ANN RULE: October 22, 1931 - July 26, 2015: age: 83: heart failure: known for her many true crime books such as " The Stranger Beside Me"
OLIVER SACKS: July 9, 1933 - August 30, 2015: age: 82: ocular cancer: known for his non-fiction book "Awakenings"
BERTRICE SMALL: December 9, 1937 - February 15, 2015: age: 77: kidney failure: known for her romances such as "A Dangerous Love"
RICHARD ADAMS: May 9, 1920 - December 24, 2016: age: 96: blood disease: known for his novel "Watership Down"
EDWARD ALBEE: March 12, 1928 - September 16, 2016: age: 88: natural causes: known for dozens of plays such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
NATALIE BABBIT: July 28, 1932 - October 31, 2016: age: 84: lung cancer: known for her children's book "Tuck Everlasting"
PAT CONROY: October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016: age: 70: pancreatic cancer: known for his novel "The Prince of Tides"
KATHERINE DUNN: October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016: age: 70: lung cancer: known for her novel "Geek Love:
UMBERTO ECO: January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016: age: 84: pancreatic cancer: known for his novel "The Name of the Rose"
CARRIE FISHER: October 21, 1956 - December 27, 2016: age: 60: heart attack: known for her novel "Postcards from the Edge"
MARGARET FORSTER: May 25, 1938 - February 8, 2016: age 77: cancer: known for her novel "The Memory Box"
JIM HARRISON: December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016: age: 78: heart attack: known for his novella "Legends of the Fall"
SHIRLEY HAZZARD: January 30, 1931 - December 12, 2016: age: 85: dementia: known for her novel "The Great Fire"
W. P. KINSELLA: May 25, 1935 - September 16, 2016: age: 81: kidney failure: known for his novel "Shoeless Joe"
HARPER LEE: April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016: age: 89: natural causes: known for her renown novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"
E. M. NATHANSON: February 17, 1928 - April 5, 2016: age: 88: heart failure: known for his novel "The Dirty Dozen"
GLORIA NAYLOR: January 25, 1950 - September 28, 2016: age: 66: heart attack: known for her novel "The Women of Brewster Place"
LOUISE RENNISON: October 11, 1951 - February 29, 2016: age: 64: undisclosed: known for her young adult book "Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal snogging"
WILLIAM TREVOR: May 24, 1928 - November 20, 2016: age: 88: natural causes: known for his novel "The Story of Lucy Gault"
ELIE WIESEL: September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016: age: 87: natural causes: known for his memoir "Night"