Deaths in March - 2017

Photographer David Rubinger died March 2 at the age of 92. His books include Israel Through My Lens: Sixty Years as a Photojournalist and Witness to an Era.

Novelist Paula Fox died March 1 at the age of 93. Her books include The Slave Dancer and One-Eyed Cat.

Cybersecurity expert Howard Schmidt died march 2 at the age of 67. He wrote Patrolling Cyberspace.

Pioneering liver transplant surgeon Thomas E. Starzl died March 3 at the age of 90. He wrote The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon.

Comic artist Jay Lynch died March 5 at the age of 72. His work includes Otto's Orange Day and Mo and Jo Fighting Together Forever.

Turner Classic Movies host and Hollywood historian Robert Osborne died March 6 at the age of 84. He published 70 Years of the Oscar: the Official History of the Academy Awards and several other updated editions.

Economist Stephen Ross died March 3 at the age of 73. His books include Corporate Finance and Fundamentals of Corporate Finance.

Author Robert James Waller died March 10 at the age of 77. He is best known for The Bridges of Madison County.

Cookbook author Carol Field died March 10 at the age of 76. Her books include The Italian Baker and Focaccia.

Scientist George A. Olah died March 8 at the age of 89. His books include Beyond Oil and Gas and A Life of Magic Chemistry.

Motorcycle racing champion John Surtees died March 10 at the age of 83. He wrote Pirelli Album of Motor Racing Heroes and John Surtees: World Champion.

Architecture writer Christopher Gray died March 10 at the age of 66. His books include New York Streetscapes, Fifth Avenue, 1911, From Start to Finish and Changing New York.

Academic and public servant Jonathan Moore died March 8 at the age of 84. His books include Hard Choices, The Dark Room and The Poison Artist.

Children's author and film maker Amy Krouse Rosenthal died March 13 at the age of 51. Her books include Duck! Rabbit!, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life and Little Pea.

Dr. Henry S. Lodge died March 8 at the age of 58. He wrote a series of self help books - Younger Next Year and Younger Next Year for Women.

Famed rock climber Royal Robbins died March 14 at the age of 82. His books include Basic Rockcraft and Advanced Rockcraft.

Controversial advocate of conversion therapy, Joseph Nicolosi died March 8 at the age of 70. His books include A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality, Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality and Shame and Attachment Loss.

Nobel winning poet Derek Walcott died March 17 at the age of 87. His many works include Omeros and Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays. :'(

Celebrated musician Chuck Berry died March 18 at the age of 90. He wrote Chuck Berry: The Autobiography.

Fantasy, horror and Comics illustrator Bernie Wrightson died March 18 at the age of 68. He's best known for Creepshow and Batman: The Cult.

New York newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin died March 19 at the age of 88. He wrote The World According to Breslin and Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? plus several others.

NYC architect Hugh Hardy died March 17 at the age of 84. His books include Building Type Basics for Performing Arts Facilities and Theater of Architecture.

Publisher George Braziller died March 16 at the age of 101. His memoir was Encounters: My Life in Publishing.

Journalist John Herbers died March 17 at the age of 93. His books include The New Heartland and No Thank You, Mr. President.

Billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller died March 20 at the age of 101. His autobiography was simply called Memoirs.

Smith College President Emirata Mary Maples Dunn died March 19 at the age of 85. She wrote William Penn: Politics and Conscience.

Canadian Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese died March 10 at the age of 61. His books include Indian Horse, Medicine Walk and Keeper 'n Me.

A founding editor of the New York Review of Books, Robert B. Silvers died March 20 at the age of 87. A few of his edited works include Hidden Histories of Science and The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships.

The creator of the Inspector Morse mysteries, Colin Dexter died March 21 at the age of 86. His many books include The Remoseful Day and Last Bus to Woodstock.

Chuck Barris, Gong Show host and founder of The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game died March 21 at the age of 87. He wrote Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

Expert on conflict resolution, Morton Deutsch died March 13 at the age of 97. His books include The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice and Theories in Social Psychology.

Former General Manager of the Chicago Bulls, Jerry Krause died March 21 at the age of 77. His books include Basketball Skills & Drills and Coaching Basketball.

Former baseball player and executive for the Phillies, Dallas Green died March 22 at the age of 82. His memoir was called The Mouth that Roared: My Six Outspoken Decades in Baseball.

Underground cartoonist Skip Williamson died March 16 at the age of 72. His work includes Scum Also Rises, Halsted Street and Snappy Sammy Smoot.

Psychiatrist Dr. George Weinberg died March 20 at the age of 86. His books include Society and the Healthy Homosexual, and The Heart of Psychotherapy.

Former aide to Mikhail Gorbachev, Anatoly S. Chernyaev died March 13 at the age of 95. He wrote My Six Years with Gorbachev.

Neurologist Lewis P. Rowland died March 16 at the age of 91. His books include Merritt's Neurology and Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis and Other Motor Neuron Diseases.

Expert on Asian-American studies, Professor Peter C. Kwong died March 17 at the age of 75. His books include The New Chinatown and Chinese America.

Photographer of celebrity musicians, Don Hunstein died March 18 at the age of 88. His books include New York: A Book of Photographs and Keeping Time: The Photographs of Don Hunstein.

The illustrator who created Swamp Thing, Bernie Wrightson died March 18 at the age of 68. His books include Creepy Presents Bernie Wrightson and The Reaper of Love and Other Stories.

Cardinal William H. Keeler died March 23 at the age of 86. His books include Real People, Real Presence and First Communion Bible.

Foreign language instructor who taught Russian to diplomats and journalists, Boris Shekhtman died March 18 at the age of 77. He wrote How to Improve your Foreign Language Immediately.

Prolific novelist, playwright & rugby player, David Storey died March 26 at the age of 83. His works include Saville and This Sporting Life.

Historian Christina Vella died March 22 at the age of 75. Her books include Intimate Enemies: the Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba, Indecent Secrets: The Infamous Murri Murder Affair and George Washington Carver: A Life.

Civil rights campaigner Prof. Roger Wilkins died March 26 at the age of 85. His books include Jefferson's Pillow: the Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of a Black Patriot and Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States.

Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada died March 28 at the age of 87. His books include Mandela: The Authorized Portrait, Letters from Robben Island and No Bread for Mandela.

Journalist Bill Minor died March 28 at the age of 94. He wrote Eyes on Mississippi.

Critic and novelist William McPherson died March 28 at the age of 84. his books include Testing the Current and To the Sargasso Sea.

New Yorker cartoonist Jack Ziegler died march 29 at the age of 74. His collections include How's the Squid?: A Book of Food Cartoons and Olive or Twist?: A book of Drinking Cartoons.

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Alex Tizon died March 30 at the age of 57. He wrote Big Little Man: In Search of my Asian Self.

Artist James Rosenquist died March 31 at the age of 83. He wrote Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art.

Legal legend, lawyer William T. Coleman, Jr. died March 31 at the age of 96. He served as a Supreme Court clerk and argued 19 cases before the Court himself. His autobiography was called Counsel for the Situation: Shaping the Law to Realize America's Promise.

Richard Bolles, who helped many find employment and purpose through his series of books What Color is Your Parachute?, died March 31 at the age of 90.

Blacklisted in the '50s, actress and screenwriter Jean Rouverol has died on March 24 at the age of 100. She wrote Refugees from Hollywood: A Journal of the Blacklist Years, Writing for the Soaps and Writing for Daytime Drama.

Businessman and friend of John Lennon, Pete Shotton died March 24 at the age of 75. He wrote John Lennon: In My Life.

Retired Duke University professor of medieval and Rennaisance history, Ronald G. Witt died March 15 at the age of 84. His books include The Humanities: Cultural Roots and Continuities and In the footsteps of the Ancients.

One of the beat poets, Joanne Kyger died March 22 at the age of 82. Her collections include As Ever: Selected Poems and Strange Big Moon.

Poet Edith Shiffert died March 1 at age 101. She wrote Pathways and many others.

Convicted killer Edgar H. Smith, Jr. was turned into a celebrity by William F. Buckley, Jr. Mr. Smith died March 20 at the age of 83. His books include Brief Against Death and Getting Out.