Sue Alexander, author 25 children’s books and a founding member of the Los Angeles-based Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, died on July 3. She was 74. Read more about her life and work at the Los Angeles Times.
Jules Tygel, historian of baseball and culture, died earlier this month in San Francisco. He was [...]
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Remembering California authors
Champion of Native American literature dies
The Los Angeles Times reports that Paula Gunn Allen, California author, poet, scholar and lauded advocate for American Indian literature, died in her Ft. Bragg home on May 29. She was 68. From her memorial website, an overview of her seminal works:
“For the last thirty years Allen was a foremost voice in Native American literature [...]
Remembering Rauschenberg
This week Robert Rauschenberg — one of the titans of 20th century American art — died in his Florida home. He was 82 and still working. In 2006, a major exhibit of his “combines” — his hybrid painting/sculpture combinations, which presaged Pop Art during the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism — was mounted at the Los [...]
Remembering Terry Ryan
Heidi Benson of the Chronicle pens an appreciation for the bestselling San Francisco author (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less) who died of cancer this past week at age 61.
A technical writer, book editor, reviewer and poet, Ryan was also the author of the [...]
Cathy’s World
Los Angeles journalist Cathy Seipp died too soon today from lung cancer. She was 49. Visit LAObserved to browse the many bloggers and friends posting remembrances.
Laguna Beach mystery writer
Barbara Seranella died yesterday in Cleveland while awaiting a liver transplant. She was 50.
Denise Hamilton shares an appreciation of Seranella at LAObserved:
Even as she struggled with two liver transplants in two years and failing health, Barbara kept her grace under fire and her sense of humor, and her books continued to win accolades and [...]
“Tillie Olsen,
an activist, feminist and an influential and widely taught fiction writer who narrated and experienced some of the major social conflicts of the 20th century, died Monday night…” Read more at the Mercury News.
Remembering California authors
Champion of Native American literature dies
The Los Angeles Times reports that Paula Gunn Allen, California author, poet, scholar and lauded advocate for American Indian literature, died in her Ft. Bragg home on May 29. She was 68. From her memorial website, an overview of her seminal works:
“For the last thirty years Allen was a foremost voice in Native American literature [...]
Remembering Rauschenberg
This week Robert Rauschenberg — one of the titans of 20th century American art — died in his Florida home. He was 82 and still working. In 2006, a major exhibit of his “combines” — his hybrid painting/sculpture combinations, which presaged Pop Art during the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism — was mounted at the Los [...]
Remembering Terry Ryan
Heidi Benson of the Chronicle pens an appreciation for the bestselling San Francisco author (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less) who died of cancer this past week at age 61.
A technical writer, book editor, reviewer and poet, Ryan was also the author of the [...]
Cathy’s World
Los Angeles journalist Cathy Seipp died too soon today from lung cancer. She was 49. Visit LAObserved to browse the many bloggers and friends posting remembrances.
Laguna Beach mystery writer
Barbara Seranella died yesterday in Cleveland while awaiting a liver transplant. She was 50.
Denise Hamilton shares an appreciation of Seranella at LAObserved:
Even as she struggled with two liver transplants in two years and failing health, Barbara kept her grace under fire and her sense of humor, and her books continued to win accolades and [...]
“Tillie Olsen,
an activist, feminist and an influential and widely taught fiction writer who narrated and experienced some of the major social conflicts of the 20th century, died Monday night…” Read more at the Mercury News.
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 