On Liz Maguire Elizabeth Maguire, 47, publisher of Basic Books, died Saturday of ovarian cancer. She was also a member of the board of directors of the University of Chicago Press and the board of directors of Columbia University Press. Author of the novel Thinner, Blonder, Whiter, she was working on a novel about the life of Constance Fenimore Woolson. In statement from Basic, her author Michael Eric Dyson calls her “a world-class thinker and my mind’s most faithful companion. She nurtured in me and so many other writers a hunger for conceptual rigor, literary beauty and moral clarity.” Perseus […]