Ben McFall, 73, the Strand bookstore’s longest-tenured bookseller, died on December 22 at his home in Jersey City. Peter Shepherd, 91, literary agent at Harold Ober Associates from 1971 to 1995, died at his home in St. James Long Island on December 28. Among his clients were the estates of F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, New Yorker writers Joseph Mitchell and Whitney Balliet, and journalists Robert Sam Anson and John Maxwell Hamilton. He also served as president of the Association of Authors Representatives.
