Gone But Not Forgotten
May 2013
In 2012, we lost many cherished authors. They may be gone, but their legacy lives on.
(For a full list of notable author/publishing industry deaths in 2012, check out Publisher’s Weekly, January 7, 2013, p. 25)
Nina Bawden: Carrie's War (1973)
Carrie and her younger brother spend World War II as evacuees in a small Welsh village where Carrie, upset by a family feud, commits an act that haunts her for thirty years.
Jan Berenstain: the Big Honey Hunt (1962)
According to Papa Bear, a bear must use his "smarts" to search for honey, so when he brings Brother Bear along on a hunt for honey, it takes more than a few missteps to outsmart the Bears.
Maeve Binchy: Circle of Friends (1991)
From Knockglen to Dublin, heartbreak and betrayal follow three extraordinary and unforgettable women as an explosive confrontation brings hidden lies to the surface and tests the meaning of love and the bonds of friendship.
Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles (1954)
Interconnected, chronological stories of Earth's settlement of Mars include tales of human interaction with one another and with the Martians, interplanetary interracial strife, self-doubt, and the metamorphosis of humanity.
Helen Gurley Brown: Sex and the Single Girl (1962)
Provides single women with advice on such topics as dealing with men, sex, career success, becoming sexy, making money, and staying healthy.
Remy Charlip: A Perfect Day (2007)
A father and son spend a perfect day together, from sunrise to nightfall, doing such things as walking, cloud watching, singing, dancing, painting, and reading.
Leo Dillon: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (1975)
Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.
Nora Ephron: I Remember Nothing: and other reflections (2010)
Cookbook writer Rachel Samstat--out of analysis and seven months pregnant--discovers that her husband is into analysis and an affair, and suffers six weeks of intense heartburn.
Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves (1972)
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Rosa Guy: The Friends (1983)
A proud West Indian girl rejected by her classmates in Harlem, finds that the only person willing to be her friend is dirty, impoverished Edith.
Harry Harrison: The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (1994)
Caught during a failed robbery, Slippery Jim, the Stainless Steel Rat, cuts a deal--to journey to a prison planet filled with homicidal maniacs to recover a lost alien artifact--that puts his freedom and his life on the line.
Ellen Levine: Henry's Freedom Box (2007)
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
Margaret Mahy: Making Friends (1990)
With the help of their canine companions, Mrs. de Vere, a small woman with a huge, hairy dog named Titania, and Mr. Derry, a large man with a tiny dog named Oberon, overcome their differences to become friends
Jean Merrill: The Pushcart War (1964)
Pushcart peddlers wage war against the truckers and politicians who try to dominate the streets of New York.
Else Holmelund Minarik: Little Bear and the Marco Polo (2019)
Little Bear hears about his grandfather's exploits as a sea captain when they are cleaning out the attic together.
Adrienne Rich: A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 (1981)
Poetry focusing on the themes of self-searching and self-discovery journeys beyond self to find other selves within each individual and other selves outside.
Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.
Donald J. Sobol: Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Soccer Scheme (2012)
Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
Dorothea Tanning: Coming to That: Poems (2011)
A collection of poems from a centenarian painter and poet that explore the creation of art and beauty.
Barry Unsworth: Sacred Hunger (1992)
En route to America with a cargo of African slaves, the crew of the Liverpool Merchant, enraged at the captain's impotence in the face of disease, carry out a mutiny that pits two cousins against each other.
Gore Vidal: The Golden Age (2000)
A fictional narrative of American history from 1939 to 1954 follows the events and personalities that transformed America from a republic to an empire through the eyes of Caroline Sanford, a Washington newspaper publisher.
Bill Wallace: A Dog Called Kitty (1980)
Ricky, though he was once attacked by a mad dog, learns to love dogs when he begins to take care of a small, fuzzy pup that suddenly appears at his farm.
Jeffrey Zaslow: The Girls From Ames (2009)
Looks at the lives, bonds, and experiences of a group of female friends from Ames, Iowa.
List created by:
Ruth Greenberg
BCCLS Catalog/Collection Development Librarian
