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Patricia McKissack, author of African-American children’s books, dies

April 12, 2017 By Combined Sources

“To me, reading is like breathing; both are essential to life.”—Patricia C. McKissack

Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, activist, dies

July 16, 2014 By Christopher Torchia

Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991 for novels that explored the complex relationships and human cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa.

Farley Mowat: Writer, socialist and environmentalist

May 23, 2014 By John Green

Canadian author Farley Mowat, who died on May 12, wrote with humour, keen perception and passionate social commitment, completing over 40 books and numerous articles.

Saul Landau told truth about Cuba

September 13, 2013 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Saul Landau - reporter, author of 14 books, filmmaker (45 of them), poet, college professor, and determined foe of U.S. assaults on Cuba - died Sept. 9 in Alameda, Calif., at the age of 77.