Travel guide writer and publisher Arthur Frommer, 95, died on November 18 from complications from pneumonia. After going to law school and serving in the US Army, he wrote Europe on $5 A Day and founded Frommer’s to publish guidebooks in 1957. Frommer’s daughter Pauline Frommer is currently the co-president of Frommer Media and editorial director of Frommer’s Guidebooks. “Throughout his remarkable life, Arthur Frommer democratized travel, showing average Americans how anyone can afford to travel widely and better understand the world,” she wrote in a statement. “I am honored to carry on his work of sharing the world with […]
Obits
Obituary: Elizabeth Nunez
Trinidad-born writer Elizabeth Nunez, 80, died on November 8 at her home in Brooklyn. Nunez was the author of Prospero’s Daughter and several other novels including When Rocks Dance, Beyond the Limbo Silence, and more. She served as distinguished professor of English at Hunter College beginning in 2010 until retiring this spring.
Obituaries: Dorothy Allison, Bruce Degen
Feminist writer Dorothy Allison, 75, died of cancer on November 5 at her home in Guerneville, CA. Allison was the author of acclaimed 1992 novel Bastard Out of Carolina, as well as other works including the novel Cavedweller and the short story collection Trash. Bruce Degen, 79, illustrator of The Magic School Bus series of children’s books, died of pancreatic cancer on November 7 at his home in Newtown, CT. Degen worked with author Joanna Cole on the 14-book series. Degen’s other work included illustrating the book Jamberry.
Mike Shatzkin, RIP
The beautiful, brilliant, boisterous, kind, generous, optimistic, unconventional and wholly original Mike Shatkzin, 77, died on the morning of November 7 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, following the recent onset of a rare cancer. In his final days, Mike was lifted by an outpouring of love and appreciation, as his ICU room overflowed with visitors from near and far and his email and texts flooded with messages. Even as his body struggled, Mike’s resting face in his hospital bed was often a smile. Mike was indelible. If you were fortunate enough to spend time with him, his voice […]
Obituary: Gary Indiana
Novelist, playwright, and critic Gary Indiana, 74, has died. He served as the art critic for the Village Voce from 1985-1988, and went on to publish novels including Horse Crazy, Resentment: A Comedy, and most recently, The Shanghai Gesture.
Obituary: Lore Segal
Lore Segal, 96, died on October 6 in her home in Manhattan. Born in Vienna, Segal spent her childhood as a Jewish refugee in England, and later emigrated to the United States. Her first novel, Other People’s Houses, was serialized in the New Yorker before being published in 1964. Other works include Lucinella, Shakespeare’s Kitchen, and Her First American.