Deaths in August - 2018

Actress Charlotte Rae died August 5 st the age of 92. Her memoir was called The Facts of My Life.

Irish poet Matthew Sweeney died August 5 at the age of 66. His many books include Teach Yourself Poetry Writing and A Smell of Fish.

Former aide to Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Tuckerman died August 1 at the age of 89. Her books include The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette and
In The Tiffany Style .

Chef Joel Robuchon died August 6 at the age of 73. His many books include The Complete Robuchon, Joel Robuchon Cooking Through the Seasons and Le Meilleur et le plus simple de la pomme de terre.

Hockey player Stan Mikita died August 7 at the age of 78. He wrote Forever a Blackhawk, Stan Mikita: I Play to Win, My Own Story and Inside hockey.

Politician Paul Laxalt died August 6 at the age of 96. He wrote A Changing America and Nevada's Paul Laxalt: a Memoir .

Big cat conservationist Alan Rabinowitz died August 5 at the age of 64. His books include A Boy and a Jaguar, Beyond the Last Village and Jaguar: Struggle and Triumph.

Publisher Anita Miller died August 4 at the age of 91. She wrote Unpublishing Cheever: The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers.

Feminist Arvonne Fraser died August 7 at the age of 92. She wrote She’s No Lady.

Father A. W. Richard Sipe died August 8 at the age of 85. His books include A secret world : sexuality and the search for celibacy and Celibacy: A Way of Loving, Living, and Serving .

Poet Anya Krugovoy Silver died August 6 at the age of 49. Her work includes The Ninety-Third Name of God: Poems, From Nothing: Poems and I Watched You Disappear: Poems .

VS Naipaul died today 11th August 2018 in London. An obituary here;_
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/11/vs-naipaul-nobel-prize-winning-bri...

Performance artist Fakir Musafar died August 1 at the age of 87. He wrote Fakir Musafar: Spirit Flesh.

Theologian Katie Cannon died August 8 at the age of 68. Her books include Black Womanist Ethics and Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community .

Botanist Hugh Synge died on his 67th birthday on August 4. He wrote The Biological aspects of rare plant conservation.

Singer Aretha Franklin died August 16 at the age of 76. Her autobiography was called Aretha: From These Roots. :'(

Former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee died August 15 at the age of 93. He wrote Twenty-one Poems and India's Perspectives on ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific Region.

Former Secretary General of the UN, Kofi Annan died August 18 at the age of 80. His books include Interventions: A Life in War and Peace and Pandemic: Facing AIDS.

Dancer Miriam Nelson died August 18 at the age of 98. Her memoir was called My Life Dancing with the Stars.

Publisher John Calder died August 13 at the age of 91. His books include Pursuit: The Uncensored Memoirs of John Calder and The Garden of Eros: The Story of the Paris Expatriates and the Post-war Literary Scene.

Politician David McReynolds died August 17 at the age of 88. He wrote We Have Been Invaded by the 21st Century.

Anti-Mafia activist Rita Borsellino died August 15 at the age of 73. She wrote Nonostante tutto: due voci per la giustizia contro le mafie.

Israeli journalist Uri Avnery died August 20 at the age of 94. His books include 1948: A Soldier's Tale - The Bloody Road to Jerusalem, Israel Without Zionism: A Plan for Peace in the Middle East and My Friend, the Enemy .

Syrian novelist Hanna Mina died August 21 at the age of 94. His books include Fragments of Memory: A Story of a Syrian Family and
بقايا صور .

Expert on Truman, Robert H. Ferrell died August 8 at the age of 97. He edited Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959 and Off the record: The private papers of Harry S. Truman.

Producer of musicals Craig Zadan died August 21 at the age of 69. His autobiography was called Sondheim & Co.

Academic and Shakespeare scholar Andrew Bretz died August 21, 2018 at the age of 42. He did not publish any stand-alone books but he produced many journal articles. Some here: https://queensu.academia.edu/AndrewBretz

His page: https://www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-arts/faculty-profiles/andrew-b...

A memorial scholarship: https://www.gofundme.com/andrew-bretz-memorial-scholarship

Treasure hunter Alex Storm died August 12 at the age of 80. His books include Canada's treasure hunt and Seaweed and Gold .

Artist Mary Pratt died August 14 at the age of 83. Her books include A Personal Calligraphy and Simple bliss : the paintings and prints of Mary Pratt.

Television personality Robin Leach died August 24 at the age of 76. he wrote Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Cookbook.

Poet and biographer Tom Clark died August 18th at the age of 77. His books include Jack Kerouac: a biography and Charles Olson: the allegory of a poet’s life .

Sen. John McCain died August 25 at the age of 81. His autobiography released last spring is called The Restless Wave.
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Legendary playwright Neil Simon died August 26 at the age of 91. His numerous works include Brighton Beach Memoirs and Lost in Yonkers.

Historian Sterling Stuckey died August 15 at the age of 86. His books include Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America, Going through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History.

United Church of Christ Minister Robert Watson Wood died August 19 at the age of 95. He wrote Christ and the Homosexual.

Shakespeare scholar Imtiaz Habib died in August at the age of 69. His works include Black Lives in the English Archives 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible. Obit here: https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2018/08/28/imtiaz-habib-an-eminent-shakespeare-s...

Food writer and critic James Villas died August 24 at the age of 80. His books include The Glory of Southern Cooking and Crazy for Casseroles: 275 All-American Hot-Dish Classics.

Cartoonist Russ Heath died August 23 st the age of 91. His work can be seen in The Immortal Iron Fist and The Golden Age of Marvel Comics.

Economist Martin Shubik died August 22 at the age of 92. His books include The Aggressive Conservative Investor and Game Theory in Social Sciences.

Children’s book author Bobby Lynn Maslen died August 16 at the age of 87. She was the author of the Bob Books series.

Dr. Elizabeth B. Connell died August 20 at the age of 92. She wrote The Contraception Sourcebook.

Rabbi Rachel Cowan died August 31 at the age of 77. Her books include Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage and Wise Aging .

Comic book artist Marie Severin died August 29 at the age of 89. Her work can be seen in The Essential Incredible Hulk, Origins of Marvel Comics and The Superhero Women.

Historian Jan Ellen Lewis died August 28 at the age of 69. She edited Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson.

Traveling side show impresario Ward Hall died August 31 at the age of 88. He wrote Gypsy Hot Bloods and My Very Unusual Friends.

Cowboy and health care advocate Stan Brock died August 29 at the age of 82. He wrote All the Cowboys were Indians.

Crime writer Amanda Kyle Williams died August 31 at the age of 61. Her books include Don't Talk to Strangers, The Stranger You Seek and Stranger in the Room.

Photographer Erich Lessing died August 29 at the age of 95. His books include The Louvre: All the Paintings and The Voyages of Ulysses.

David Yallop died August 31st 2018 (born 1937). He wrote In God's Name about what he claimed to be the murder of Pope John Paul I after holding office for just over a month. He also wrote Deliver Us From Evil about the Yorkshire Ripper case.

Professor David Watkin died August 30th 2018 aged 77. His many books include "A History of Western Architecture", "Morality in Architecture" and "Sir John Soane: Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures".

Japanese-American playwright Wakako Yamauchi died August 16 at the age of 93. Her work includes Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays, and Memoir , Rosebud and other stories and And the Soul Shall Dance.

Ice climber Jeff Lowe died August 24 at the age of 67. His books include Ice World: Techniques and experiences of Modern Ice Climbing and Ice Experience.

Architect Florian Beigel died August 25 at the age of 76. His work includes Abalos Herreros (2G: International Architecture Review), Architecture as City: Saemangeum Island City and City Structures .

Roderick Cavaliero who worked for the British Council and was chairman of the British School in Rome died August 27th 2018 aged 90.

Geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza died August 31 at the age of 96. His works include Genes, Peoples, and Languages, The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution and
The History and Geography of Human Genes .

Anthropologist Constance R. Sutton died August 23 at the age of 92. Her books include Feminism Nationalism and Militarism and Caribbean life in New York City : sociocultural dimensions.

Professor Pierre Coustillas died August 11th 2018 aged 88. Much of his writing were about the 19th century novelist George Gissing.

Author and actor Stanley Morgan died August 24 at the age of 88. His work includes The Sewing Machine Man and Raven.

Author Keith Botsford died August 19 at the age of 90. His books include Józef Czapski: A Life in Translation (and The Mothers.

Stephen Cretney died August 30th 2019 aged 83. He wrote a number of books on law including Same Sex Relationships: from Odious Crime to Gay Marriage. He also caused some disquiet by claiming that the marriage of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker-Bowles was unlawful as the 1836 Act which brought about civil marriage specifically excluded the roya family.

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