Obits

Lucia Bernard, 29, senior designer in the Penguin Black interior design department, died on November 18. She had been with the company for six years. The publisher writes, “In her more than six years with the company Lucia touched not only her teammates in Design, Production, Art, and Editorial but also the many grateful authors whose books were elevated by her gifted vision.  She was driven to excellence in all she pursued.” Information about a memorial is TBA.

M. John Storey, 79, who founded Storey Publishing, died on November 26. Storey founded the company in 1983 with his wife Martha when they bought the publishing arm of Garden Way, and it was acquired by Workman in 2000. Dan Reynolds, former CEO of Storey, now svp & publisher of Workman, says, “John Storey was a passionate entrepreneur whose fascinating career reflects much of what was going on in the culture in which he lived, including the back to the land movement, the quest to be self-reliant, and the pursuit of an independent homesteading life…The valuable, trusted information contained in […]

Irish scholar Thomas Cahill, 82, who wrote How the Irish Saved Civilization, which spent almost two years on the New York Times bestseller list, died on October 18 of a heart attack.

The Paper Chase author John Jay Osborn, Jr., 77, died on October 19 of squamous cell cancer. The book was adapted into a film starring John Houseman, who won an Academy Award, and a TV show. Osborn wrote four other novels, as well as film and TV scripts, and taught in law schools. Literary agent Lucianne Goldberg died on October 26 at age 87. Goldberg was an author and ghost writer, but became best-known for suggesting that Linda Tripp record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky. As an agent, Goldberg represented celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley and detective in the O.J. Simpson case […]

Mike Davis, 76, MacArthur fellow and author of books including City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear, died at his home in San Diego on October 25.

Carmen Callil, 84, founder of feminist imprint Virago Press, died of leukemia in London on Monday. Born in Australia, Callil founded the press in the UK in 1973, going on to publish Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, Angela Carter, and more. The imprint was acquired by the Chatto, Bodley Head and Cape group in 1982, and Callil became managing director of Chatto and Windus. Callil was also the author of nonfiction books including Bad Faith, about Vichy France, and a history of her family called Oh Happy Day.