RiP John Mulvaney
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Archaeologist and author John Mulvaney has died, aged 90. NewSouth Publishing writes: ‘All of us at UNSW Press/NewSouth Publishing were saddened to learn of the death of Professor John Mulvaney...
RiP Michael Wyer
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Michael Wyer, founder and CEO of book and magazines book and magazines distributor Educational Concepts Pty Ltd has died, aged 71. Lake Press CEO David Horgan writes: ‘Michael Wyer sadly...
RiP Inga Clendinnen
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Writer and historian Inga Clendinnen has died, aged 82. A leading academic in Aztec and Mayan society, Clendinnen held positions at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, with...
RiP Kevin Burgemeestre
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Children’s book author and illustrator Kevin Burgemeestre has died, aged 59. Burgemeestre’s 30-year career included illustrating Hazel Edwards’ Antarctic Dad (Lothian), Val Marshall and Bronwyn Tester’s Bernard Was a Bike...
RiP Peter Gossage
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
New Zealand children’s author Peter Gossage has died, aged 69. Gossage was the author of more than 20 books, and was best known for his colourfully illustrated retellings of Maori...
RiP Jeffrey Grey
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Australian military historian and author Jeffrey Grey has died, aged 57. Grey was the author of the books A Military History of Australia (CUP) and A Soldier’s Soldier (CUP), among many others....
RiP Cory Taylor
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Author Cory Taylor has died, aged 61. Taylor’s 2011 debut novel Me and Mr Booker won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Pacific region, and her second novel My Beautiful...
RiP Elie Wiesel
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of the memoir Night (Penguin), has died, aged 87. Wiesel was the author of over 50 works of fiction and...
RiP Terry Kitson
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Terry Kitson, former CEO of HarperCollins UK and Australia, has died following a short illness. The Bookseller writes: ‘Kitson started out as a sales rep with Corgi Books at Transworld...
RiP Gillian Mears
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Author Gillian Mears has died, aged 51. Mears was the author of several novels and short stories, including her debut The Mint Lawn (A&U), for which she won the Australian/Vogel...
RiP Bob Ellis
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Author, journalist and screenwriter Bob Ellis has died, aged 73. Ellis was the author of more than 20 books, including Goodbye Babylon, So It Goes, Night Thoughts in Time of...
RiP George Dale
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Australian book designer George Dale has died, aged 74. Dale was Penguin’s first in-house designer, and went on to design over 2000 covers during his 30 years with the publisher....
RiP Anita Brookner
Thursday, 17 March 2016
British author and art historian Anita Brookner has died, aged 87. Brookner was the author of 24 novels, including the 1984 Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac. Her last novella At...
RiP Louise Rennison
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
English author Louise Rennison has died, aged 63. Rennison is best known for her YA book series ‘Confessions of Georgia Nicolson’, with the first two books—Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging...
RiP Kim Gamble
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Illustrator Kim Gamble has died, aged 63. Gamble was the illustrator of the ‘Tashi’ series, written by Barbara and Anna Fienberg, and helped to create the character with the mother-daughter...
RiP Harper Lee
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
American author Harper Lee has died, aged 89. Lee was the author of two novels: Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird (Arrow), which has sold more than 40 million copies...
RiP Umberto Eco
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Italian author Umberto Eco has died, aged 84. Eco was the author of the bestselling The Name of the Rose (Vintage), a murder mystery set in a medieval Italian monastery,...
RiP John Hirst
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Author and historian John Hirst has died, aged 73. Hirst was an Emeritus Scholar at LaTrobe University and wrote a number of books on Australian politics and history, including Convict...
RiP David Conners
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Brolga Books publisher and former managing director of Angus and Roberston Bookworld David Conners has died, aged 68. Sandy Grant, chief executive at Hardie Grant Publishing, writes: ‘David Conners, one...
RiP Brian Johns
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Brian Johns, former Penguin Books director and managing director of the ABC, has died, aged 79. Johns joined Penguin Books as publishing director in 1979, expanding the publisher’s list to...
RiP Peter Milne
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Peter Milne, a long-time bookseller at Abbey’s Bookshop in Sydney, has died, aged 75. Eve Abbey from Abbey’s Bookshop writes: ‘Our indispensable, seemingly everlasting Peter Milne died just before Christmas....
RiP Jackie Collins
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
British-American author Jackie Collins has died, aged 77. Collins was the author of more than 30 novels, including The Stud, Hollywood Wives and her debut The World Is Full of Married...
RiP Dorothy Butler
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Dorothy Butler, New Zealand author and founder of the Dorothy Butler Children’s Bookshop in Ponsonby, has died, aged 90. Butler was the author of several children’s books, including My Brown...
RiP Janis Brown
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Janis Brown, bookseller at Abbey’s Bookshop in Sydney, Pulp Fiction in Brisbane and Reader’s Companion Bookshop in Armidale, has died, aged 55. Brown’s colleagues at Reader’s Companion, Yvonne and Bill...
RiP Wayne Dyer
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
US self-help author and speaker Wayne Dyer has died, aged 75. Dyer was a prolific author of self-help books, including the best-selling 1976 title Your Erroneous Zones (Piatkus) and his 2013 memoir,...
RiP Oliver Sacks
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
English-born author and neurologist Oliver Sacks has died, aged 82.Sacks was the acclaimed author of the best-selling The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador), in which he...
RiP Kat Muscat
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
Kat Muscat, a Melbourne writer and former editor of the magazine Voiceworks, has died, aged 25.Adolfo Aranjuez, who was deputy editor of Voiceworks during Muscat’s editorship, writes:‘I first met Kat...
RiP Hugh Stretton
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Australian author and social theorist Hugh Stretton has died, aged 91. Stretton was the author of several works on social theory and economics, including Australia Fair (UNSW Press), as well...
RiP Michael Zifcak
Friday, 3 July 2015
Michael Zifcak, former chairman of Collins Booksellers and Hill of Content Publishing, has died, aged 96.Zifcak was the chairman of Collins Booksellers and its publishing division Hill of Content, which he...
RiP Harold Joseph Davis
Tuesday, 1 August 2006
Harold Joseph Davis, co-founder of Trio Bookbinders and the printing firm H&K Davis, has died in Melbourne, aged 77.
