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FROM: Andrew Smith <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 1/2/03, 8:29 AM

Last year we did a list of authors who died in 2001. I'd like to compile
another list for 2002, and start with:

Jan de Hartog
Dee Brown

Who else belongs, to our regret?

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Andrew Smith [removed]@mail.wrl.org
Readers Services Librarian
Williamsburg Regional Library (757) 259-4050
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FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 1/2/03, 9:01 AM

Stephen Jay Gould

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Andrew Smith wrote:

> Last year we did a list of authors who died in 2001. I'd like to compile
> another list for 2002, and start with:
>
> Jan de Hartog
> Dee Brown
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> Who else belongs, to our regret?
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> Andrew Smith [removed]@mail.wrl.org
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> Williamsburg Regional Library (757) 259-4050
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FROM: [removed]@msln.net
REC'D: 1/2/03, 9:42 AM

Thor Heyerdahl
Mildred Wirt Benson (Nancy Drew creator)
Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking)
R. A. Lafferty
George Alec Effinger (SF writer)
Caroline Knapp
Timothy Findley
Jack Olsen (true crime writer)
Chaim Potok
Lloyd Biggle (science fiction, mystery writer)
Robert Forward
Stephen Ambrose
Charles Sheffield (SF writer)

~ Molly Wms.
Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library
Weblog: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm

Quoting Andrew Smith <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>:

> Last year we did a list of authors who died in 2001. I'd like to
> compile
> another list for 2002, and start with:
>
> Jan de Hartog
> Dee Brown
>
> Who else belongs, to our regret?

FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 1/2/03, 9:52 AM

Also,
Jack C. Haldeman (SF writer)
Ann Landers
Damon Knight (SF writer & Editor)

Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

>>> [removed]@msln.net 01/02/03 09:38AM >>>
Thor Heyerdahl
Mildred Wirt Benson (Nancy Drew creator)
Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking)
R. A. Lafferty
George Alec Effinger (SF writer)
Caroline Knapp
Timothy Findley
Jack Olsen (true crime writer)
Chaim Potok
Lloyd Biggle (science fiction, mystery writer)
Robert Forward
Stephen Ambrose
Charles Sheffield (SF writer)

~ Molly Wms.
Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library
Weblog: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm

Quoting Andrew Smith <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>:

> Last year we did a list of authors who died in 2001. I'd like to
> compile
> another list for 2002, and start with:
>
> Jan de Hartog
> Dee Brown
>
> Who else belongs, to our regret?

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FROM: Vicki Novak - LIBRARYX <[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 1/2/03, 12:10 PM

The Dead People Server site has a list by year and it includes what each person was known for:
http://dpsinfo.com/dps/2002.html#top

Just from scanning it, here are some of the writers I see:
Jack Haldeman
Astrid Lindgren (wrote Pippi Longstocking)
R.A. Lafferty
Damon Knight
George Alec Effinger
Stephen Jay Gould
Caroline Knapp
Timothy Findley
Ann Landers
William Anthony Swithin Sarjeant
Laurence M. Janifer
Jack Olsen
Alexander Ginzburg
Chaim Potok
Lloyd Biggle
Robert Forward
Stephen Ambrose
Charles Sheffield

Vicki Novak
Adult Services Librarian
[removed]@mail.maricopa.gov

North Central Regional Library
Maricopa County Library District
17811 N. 32nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85032
http://mcld.maricopa.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Smith [[removed]@mail.wrl.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 7:20 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: 2002 R.I.P?

Last year we did a list of authors who died in 2001. I'd like to compile
another list for 2002, and start with:

Jan de Hartog
Dee Brown

Who else belongs, to our regret?

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Andrew Smith [removed]@mail.wrl.org
Readers Services Librarian
Williamsburg Regional Library (757) 259-4050
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FROM: Trina DiTommaso <[removed]@will.state.wy.us>
REC'D: 1/2/03, 1:37 PM

Check out these two web sites for a list of U.S & English authors who died
in 2002:

http://www.mobylives.com/0bits_2002.html (authors from the United States)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/years/2002.htm (authors from England)

-T. DiTommaso
Teton County Library
Jackson, WY

-----Original Message-----
From: "Andrew Smith" <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:20:08 -0500 (EST)

Last year we did a list of authors who died in 2001. I'd like to compile
another list for 2002, and start with:

Jan de Hartog
Dee Brown

Who else belongs, to our regret?

FROM: Penny Ramirez <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/2/03, 1:48 PM

Douglas Adams passed away in 2002, as did Richard
Bradford and Dorothy Dunnett.

Penny Ramirez
Reference Librarian
River Forest (IL) PL

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FROM: Vicki Novak - LIBRARYX <[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 1/2/03, 4:58 PM

Douglas Adams died in 2001...I had thought it was 2002 also, but I found an obituary from 2001.

Vicki Novak
Adult Services Librarian
[removed]@mail.maricopa.gov

North Central Regional Library
Maricopa County Library District
17811 N. 32nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85032
http://mcld.maricopa.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: Penny Ramirez [[removed]@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:45 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: 2002 R.I.P?

Douglas Adams passed away in 2002, as did Richard
Bradford and Dorothy Dunnett.

Penny Ramirez
Reference Librarian
River Forest (IL) PL

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FROM: "Bessie Makris" <[removed]@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 1/2/03, 8:49 PM

Mary Wesley

Bessie Makris
Allen County Public Library
P.O. Box 2270
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/3/03, 7:59 AM

Poul Anderson, one of the best sf writers of all time.

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FROM: "C. L. Quillen" <[removed]@mtlaurel.lib.nj.us>
REC'D: 1/3/03, 9:34 AM

Edward Latimer Beach
Mildred Wirt Benson (1st Nancy Drew author)

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[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Andrew Smith
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 9:20 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: 2002 R.I.P?

Last year we did a list of authors who died in 2001. I'd like to
compile
another list for 2002, and start with:

Jan de Hartog
Dee Brown

Who else belongs, to our regret?

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Andrew Smith
[removed]@mail.wrl.org
Readers Services Librarian
Williamsburg Regional Library (757) 259-4050
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FROM: "Lois Tipton" <[removed]@mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 1/3/03, 10:07 AM

Harriet Doerr died Nov. 26, 2002.

Lois Tipton
Fairport Public Library
Fairport, NY
[removed]@libraryweb.org

FROM: Andrew Smith <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 1/21/03, 1:16 PM

The long-overdue and not-much-requested compiled list of authors who died
in 2002. I compiled these submissions without confirming dates
of death; please let me know if I missed any or included some that don't
belong.

Stephen Ambrose
Poul Anderson
Edward Latimer Beach
Mildred Wirt Benson
Lloyd Biggle
Dee Brown
Claude Brown
Norman Brown
Camilo Jose Cela
Richard Cowper
Harriet Doerr
Dorothy Dunnett
George Alec Effinger
Timothy Findley
Aileen Fisher
Robert Forward
Thomas Fuller
Alexander Ginzburg
Stephen Jay Gould
Bert Granet
Jack C. Haldeman
Jan de Hartog
Thor Heyerdahl
To Huu
Laurence M. Janifer
June Jordan
Caroline Knapp
Damon Knight
Frederick Knott
R. A. Lafferty
Ann Landers
Astrid Lindgren
Jack Olsen
Chaim Potok
Stan Rice
David Riesman
Reginald Rose
William Anthony Swithin Sarjeant
Charles Sheffield
Jerry Sohl
Mary Wesley
Cherry Wilder

Websites for further research:
http://www.mobylives.com/0bits_2002.html (authors from the United States)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/years/2002.htm (authors from England)

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Andrew Smith [removed]@mail.wrl.org
Readers Services Librarian
Williamsburg Regional Library (757) 259-4050
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