Codependent No More author Melody Beattie, 76, died on February 27 of heart failure. After its publication in 1986, the book spent 129 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Spiegel & Grau took over the rights in 2022 and sold more than 400,000 copies. Publishing director Nicole Dewey said, “You could call her the mother of the self-help genre.” Novelist Geoff Nicholson, 71, died on January 18 of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Nicholson wrote 17 novels and 10 works of nonfiction, including 1997’s Bleeding London and 2023’s Walking on Thin Air: A Life’s Journey in 99 Steps. Former literary […]
