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Jeffrey Archer, Bestselling Novelist and Former Tory Peer, Dies at 86
Jeffrey Archer, whose novels including Kane and Abel sold more than 300 million copies, died at home on October 5, a day before his final novel, Adam and Eve, was published.
Peter May, Author of the Lewis Trilogy, Dies at 74
Peter May, whose Lewis Trilogy began with The Blackhouse and whose books sold about 15 million copies, died on September 25 in the south of France. He was 74. A final novel is due in January.
Terry Denton, Illustrator of the Treehouse Books, Dies at 76
Terry Denton, the Australian illustrator whose Treehouse books with Andy Griffiths sold more than 13 million English-language copies, died on September 21 near Melbourne. He was 76.
Annie Dillard, Author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Dies at 81
Annie Dillard, whose Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1975, died on September 15 at her home in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts. She was 81.
Blanche d'Alpuget, Novelist and Hawke Biographer, Dies at 82
Blanche d'Alpuget, the Australian novelist and biographer whose 1982 life of Bob Hawke became a landmark political book, died on September 8. She was 82. Her last novel, The Bunny Club, appeared when she was 81.
Péter Nádas, Author of A Book of Memories, Dies at 83
Péter Nádas, the Hungarian novelist whose A Book of Memories Susan Sontag called the greatest novel of our time, died on August 26 at his home in Gombosszeg. He was 83.
Ted Smart, Founder of The Book People, Dies at 83
Ted Smart, who founded The Book People in 1988 and built a direct-to-consumer bookseller that underwrote publishers' coffee-table books, died on August 17. He was 83.
John Crowley, Author of Little, Big, Dies at 83
John Crowley, whose novel Little, Big won the World Fantasy Award and was called a neglected masterpiece by Harold Bloom, died on August 8 at his home in Conway, Massachusetts. He was 83.
Derek Johns, Agent to Martel, Barry and Jan Morris, Dies at 78
Derek Johns, the publisher turned agent whose clients included Yann Martel, Sebastian Barry, Jan Morris and Andrew O'Hagan, died on July 24 at 78. He helped place Life of Pi with Canongate.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, PEN/Faulkner Winner and YA Novelist, Dies at 71
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, the first Latino writer to win the PEN/Faulkner and the author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, died in El Paso on July 28. He was 71.
Shahrnush Parsipur, Author of Women Without Men, Dies at 80
Shahrnush Parsipur, the Iranian novelist whose Women Without Men reached UK readers in 2026 and a Booker longlist, has died at 80. Penguin will publish her prison memoir in English in 2027.