Barbara Ehrenreich, 81, journalist and author of a number of books including Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch, Smile or Die, and more, died on September 1. Ehrenreich continued to write into her 80s and her daughter told the New York Times that she was working on a book about the “evolution of narcissism.” Literary agent Sterling Lord died on September 3, on his 102nd birthday. An agent for more than 60 years, he represented Ken Kesey, Joe McGinniss, Jimmy Breslin, the Berenstain Bears books, Art Buchwald, Willie Morris, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Howard Fast, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many more.