Anti-smoking guru Allen Carr, author of the bestselling Easy Way to Stop Smoking, Easyweigh to Lose Weight (both Penguin), among other self-help titles, has died of lung cancer at the...

American expat writer Curtis Cate, who lived in France for much of his life, has died at the age of 82. Cate was the author of several memorable biographies on...

American writer, publisher and Dr Seuss-collaborator Phyllis Cerf Wagner has died at the age of 95. Wagner co-founded the Random House imprint Beginner Books with Dr Seuss and his wife,...

American economist and Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman has died of heart failure at the age of 94. The best known of Friedman's many published works are Capitalism and Freedom (University...

Children's book author and illustrator Ursula Moray Williams has died at the age of 95. Williams was best known for her classic children's book Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse...

Pat Woolley from Wild & Woolley writes: Nick Vine Hall, the doyen of family history researchers in Australia, has died of cancer, aged 62. Among his 35 books, Tracing Your...

Australian journalist and author Liz Collins has died at the age of 85. Her early published work includes the novels The Second Step and The Copper Crucible. Later in her...

British author Lucilla Andrews, best known for her ‘hospital fiction' romances (also published under the pseudonyms Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus), has died of lung cancer at the age of...

Ernestine Carey, co-author of the bestselling memoir Cheaper by the Dozen (various imprints), among other books, has died at the age of 98.

Wendy Lowenstein, oral historian, author and passionate defender of workers' rights, has died in Melbourne from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 79. Lowenstein's books include Weevils in the Flour (Scribe),...

WBN is saddened to report that John Nieuwenhuizen, a former editor of WBN and Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine, died suddenly last Friday.After working for the ABA, John came to...

Popular British travel writer Eric Newby, whose books include A Short Walk in Hindu Kush and Love and War in the Apennines (both Pan Macmillan), has died of natural causes...

Russian journalist and author Anna Politkovskaya has died. The passionate critic of the war in Chechnya and the Putin administration was shot dead in Moscow on Saturday 7 October.Between 2003...

Former Jacaranda Wiley MD John Collins writes: Shirley Macpherson, former college and professional marketing manager at Jacaranda Wiley (now Wiley Australia) has died in Toowomba, aged 75. A long-time publishers'...

German-born writer Sasha Soldatow has died in Sydney, aged 58. His book Private: Do Not Open (Penguin) was one of the first explicitly gay works published by a mainstream Australian...

Maori writer and popular young-adult author Kingi McKinnon has died at the age of 63. McKinnon wrote several award-winning novels about the experience of young Maori in the modern world.

Anthropologist and author Margaret Orbell has died at the age of 72. Orbell dedicated her career to the promotion of Maori literature. Her books include the 2004 Montana New Zealand...

German historian and author Joachim Fest, best known for his biographies of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, has died, aged 79. His book Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days...

Australian author and journalist Michael Keon died on 22 May this year, aged 87. In his younger years, Keon moved with the crowd of artists and intellectuals at Heide Park...

Renowned Australian children's author Colin Thiele has died, aged 85, after suffering from heart complications. Thiele published more than 100 books in his lifetime, including the children's classic Storm Boy...