Obituaries
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Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96
Frederick Buechner, a Presbyterian minister who never held a church pastorate but found his calling writing a prodigious quantity of…
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John L. Eastman, Lawyer and Force in Entertainment World, Dies at 83
John L. Eastman, a lawyer for musicians and artists whose representation of famous clients like Paul McCartney, Billy Joel and…
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Pete Carril, Princeton’s Textbook Basketball Coach, Dies at 92
Pete Carril, who coached men’s basketball at Princeton for 29 years and scared big-name opponents with his undersize, often underskilled…
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Anne Heche, Actress Known for ’90s Film Roles, Dies at 53
Anne Heche, an actress who was as well known for her roles in films like “Six Days, Seven Nights” and…
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Zofia Posmysz, Who Wrote of Life in Concentration Camps, Dies at 98
Zofia Posmysz, who endured three years of imprisonment in concentration camps for associating with the Polish resistance to Nazi occupation…
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Elana Dykewomon, Author Who Explored Lesbian Lives, Dies at 72
Elana Dykewomon, a gregarious, cerebral author, poet and activist who spent decades exploring her identity as both a lesbian and…
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Jan Longone, Influential Scholar of Food History, Dies at 89
Jan Longone, a curious, cordial and diligent food scholar who started a mail-order cookbook business from her Michigan basement that…
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Bill Pitman, Revered Studio Guitarist, Is Dead at 102
Bill Pitman, a guitarist who accompanied Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and others from the late 1950s to the…
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Jean-Jacques Sempé, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89
Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist known in America for children’s book illustrations and for covers for The New Yorker portraying…
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Paul Coker, Cartoonist at Mad for Almost Six Decades, Dies at 93
Paul Coker, a cartoonist who was best known for using monsters to parody clichés in Mad magazine over many decades…