Author Jonathan Raban, 80, who wrote “wrote literary narratives of his travel,” died Tuesday in Seattle, of complications from a stroke he had in 2011. His memoir Father and Son will be published in September 2023. Marion Meade, 88, best known for her biography of Dorothy Parker What Fresh Hell Is This?, died on December 29, of complications of COVID. She was also the author of acclaimed biographies on Eleanor of Aquitaine, Buster Keaton, and others.