Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93
His literary and marketing instincts brought quality paperbacks to American readers and led to the creation of The New York Review of Books.
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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Eric Bentley, Critic Who Preferred Brecht to Broadway, Dies at 103
Mr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of modern European drama in the 1940s but had little use for American plays.
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
George Steiner, Prodigious Literary Critic, Dies at 90
He ranged over subjects like the origins of speech, the moral power of literature and the future of truth — and sometimes drew criticism himself.
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and William Grimes
Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89
Mr. Berger was known as the author of “Little Big Man” and books that explored the American West, but his body of work was broader than that.
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and William McDonald
Peter Matthiessen, Lyrical Writer and Naturalist, Is Dead at 86
Mr. Matthiessen’s nonfiction explored the remote endangered wilds of the world, and his fiction often placed his protagonists in the heart of them.
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88
Mr. Fussell, a wide-ranging author, may be best remembered for “The Great War and Modern Memory,” his study of World War I and the influence of its horrors on art and literature.
By Bruce Weber
Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass Pioneer, Dies at 88
Mr. Scruggs was a banjo player whose hard-driving picking style influenced a generation of players and helped shape the sound of 20th-century country music.
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Wilfrid Sheed, Writer of Gentle Wit, Dies at 80
Mr. Sheed drew upon his Anglo-American background to write bittersweet essays, criticism, memoirs and fiction about cultural life on both sides of the Atlantic.
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Frank Kermode, a Critic Who Wrote With Style, Is Dead at 90
Mr. Kermode was a professor at English and American universities who wrote or edited more than 50 books and who was knighted for his work.
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Harold W. McGraw Jr., Publisher, Dies at 92
Mr. McGraw, as leader of McGraw-Hill, his family’s publishing business, helped build it into a billion-dollar enterprise.
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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