MELISSA BANK: October 11, 1960 - August 2, 2022: age: 61: lung cancer: known for the fiction book "The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing"
RAYMOND BRIGGS: January 18, 1934 - August 9, 2022: age: 88: pneumonia: known for the children's book "The Snowman"
FREDERICK BUECHNER: July 11, 1926 - August 15, 2022: age: 96: natural causes: known for his novel "A Long Day's Dying"
THOMAS CAHILL: March 29, 1940 - October 18, 2022: age: 82: heart attack: known for his non-fiction book "How the Irish Saved Civilization"
BARBARA EHRENREICH: August 26, 1941 - September 1, 2022: age: 81: stroke: known for the non-fiction book "Nickel and Dimed"
NICHOLAS EVANS: July 26, 1950 - August 9, 2022: age 72: heart attack: known for the fiction book "The Horse Whisperer"
JACK HIGGINS: July 27, 1929 - April 9, 2022: age: 92: natural causes: known for his thrillers such as "The Eagle Has Landed"
M.E. KERR: May 27, 1927 - November 21, 2022: age: 95: cardiac arrest: known for her young adult book "Gentlehands"
MICHAEL MALONE: NOVEMBER 22, 1942 - AUGUST 19, 2022: age 79: pancreatic cancer: known for his fiction book "Four Corners of the Sky"
HILARY MANTEL: July 6, 1952 - September 22, 2022: age 70: stroke: known for the fiction book "Wolf Hall"
DAVID MCKEE: January 2, 1935 - April 6, 2022: age: 87: natural causes: known for his children's series "Elmer"
NANCY MILFORD: March 26, 1938 - March 29, 2022: age 84: natural causes: known for her non-fiction book "Savage Beauty"
DAVID MCCULLOUGH: July 7, 1933 - August 7, 2022: age 89: natural causes: known for the non-fiction book "John Adams"
P. J. O'ROURKE: November 14, 1947 - February 15, 2022: age: 74: lung cancer: known for the non-fiction book "Eat the Rich"
JOHN JAY OSBORN JR. : August 5, 1945 - October 19, 2022: age: 77: squamous-cell carcinoma: known for his book "The Paper Chase"
JULIE POWELL: April 20, 1973 - October 26, 2022: age 49: cardiac arrest: known for her non-fiction memoir "Julie and Julia"
PETER STRAUB: March 2, 1943 - September 4, 2022: age: 79: complications after a fall: known for the horror book "The Talisman" (co-written with Stephen King)
STUART WOODS: January 9, 1938 - July 22, 2022: age 84: natural causes: known for the mystery book "New York Dead"
A.B. YEHOSHUA: December 9, 1936 - June 14, 2022: age 85: throat cancer: known for the novel "The Liberated Bride"
