This week saw the passing of , an underrated giant of fantasy, experimental fiction, and children's literature.
Generations of readers will remember him for his wonderful children's picture books, including Bedtime for Frances and The Little Brute Family; others, for his 1980 post-apocalyptic masterpiece Riddley Walker, written entirely in a kind of devolved pidgin, and its brilliantly fractured take on British history, any recollection of which has been occluded by catastrophe.
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, author of the Chrestomanci series and Howl's Moving Castle has passed away.
, prolific novelist, biographer, and magician, passed away last week, the day after his 90th birthday.
In addition to scores of charming and peculiar novels, including the Newbery Award-winning book The Whipping Boy, Fleischman had written fantastic biographies of Harry Houdini and Mark Twain. Before his death, he completed Sir Charlie, a biography of Charlie Chaplin, which is set to release June 1, 2010.
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Novelist, playwright, and musician Paul Quarrington passed away yesterday in his Toronto home at the age of 56.
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P.K. Page's formidable career spanned almost 70 years, commencing during the heyday of Canadian modernism in the 1940s and enduring well into the 21st century.
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