Harvey Wheeler died September 6 at his home in Carpinteria. Wheeler wrote or contribued to hundreds of scholarly articles and a dozen books including Democracy in a Revolutionary Era (1968) and The Virtual Library (1987), but his best-known work was the terrifying fiction Fail Safe (1962) — written with Eugene Burdick — in which an accidental first strike on the Soviet Union brings about the ultimate consequences of a policy of mutually assured destruction. Read more about Wheeler at latimes.com.
Also: California Poet Virginia Hamilton Adair has died. She was 91. Her Ants on the Melon, published when she was 83, was warmly recieved by critics and sold more than 70,000 copies. “‘She has arrived in our world like a comet,’ said poet Galway Kinnell after reading her work.” Read more at the Seattle/PI. Read a 1996 NewsHour interview with Adair here.
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