Deaths in November - 2022

Restaurant critic Gael Greene died November 1 at the age of 88. Her books include Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess and Blue Skies, No Candy.

New Yorker cartoonist George Booth died November 1 at the age of 96. His books include Rehearsal’s Off! and Think Good Thoughts About a Pussycat.

NFL Hall of Fame punter Ray Guy died November 3 at the age of 72. He wrote Football Kicking and Punting.

Author and critic Doris Grumbach has died at the age of 104. Her books include The Ladies and The Magician’s Girl.

Golfer Dow Finsterwald died November 4 at the age of 93. He wrote Fundamentals of Golf.

Lawyer and women's advocate Ela Bhatt died November 2 at the age of 89. Her books include We are Poor but so Many and Anubandh.

Former career criminal and later prisons correspondent for the Guardian, Eric Allison died November 2 at the age of 79. He co-authored Strangeways 1990: A Serious Disturbance.

Actor Leslie Phillips died November 7 at the age of 98. His memoir was called Hello: The Autobiography.

Economist Edward C. Prescott died November 6 at the age of 81. He wrote Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics and Contractual Arrangements for Intertemporal Trade.

Political scientist David Butler died November 8 at the age of 98. His books include Failure in British Government and Political Change in Britain.

Theologian Rev. Donald Senior died November 8 at the age of 82. His books include Jesus: A Gospel Portrait and What are they Saying about Matthew?

German Shakespeare scholar Werner Habicht died November 5th at the age 92. Among his works were Shakespeare and the German Imagination and Images of Shakespeare.

Pioneering sportswriter and writer on aging Jane Gross died November 9 at the age of 75. She wrote Bittersweet Season: Caring for our Aging Parents.

Psychoanalyst Michael Maccoby has died at the age of 89. His books include The Gamesman, Strategic Intelligence: Conceptual Tools, and Narcissistic Leaders.

Comic book artist Kevin O’Neill died November 7 at the age of 69. His work can be seen in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Nemesis the Warlock.

Art critic Brian O’Doherty died November 7 at the age of 94. His books include Inside the White Cube, The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. and The Deposition of Father McGreevy.

Folk music journalist Colin Irwin died November 3 at the age of 71. His books include In Search of the Craic and In Search of Albion.

Founder of the Improv Comedy Club Budd Friedman died November 12 at the age of 90. He wrote The Improv: An Oral History.

Hearst magazine’s editor Ellen Levine died November 6 at the age of 79. Her work includes Good Housekeeping Easy and Delicious Recipes: Roasting and Good Housekeeping Favorite Recipes: Cookies!

Late night talk radio host Jim Bohannon died November 12 at the age of 78. He wrote America in Crisis.

Former Harvard Dean Henry Rosovsky died November 12 at the age of 95. His The University: An Owner’s Manual.

Actor and Holocaust survivor Robert Clary died November 6 at the age of 96. He wrote From Holocaust to Hogan’s Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary.

Have learned from Twitter and looked up online - not sure whether it was today but news has broken that Marcus Sedgwick has died suddenly aged 54. He was the author of over 40 books, mostly young adult, several genres but including fantasy and historical.

Have learned from Twitter and looked up online - not sure whether it was today but news has broken that Marcus Sedgwick has died suddenly aged 54. He was the author of over 40 books, mostly young adult, several genres but including fantasy and historical. These include Midwinterblood and Blood Red, Snow White.

Columnist and presidential speechwriter Michael Gerson died November 17 at the age 58. His books include City of Man and Heroic Conservatism.

Composer Ned Rorem died November 18 at the age of 99. His books include Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir and The Paris and New York Diaries of Ned Rorem.

Former Chairman of the FTC Michael Pertschuk died November 16 at the age of 89. His books include Smoke in Their Eyes and When the Senate Worked for Us.

Activist on behalf of sex workers Carol Leigh died November 16 at the age of 71. She wrote Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot.

Advertising executive George Lois died November 18 at the age of 91. His books include Damn Good Advice and What’s the Big Idea?

Historian and labor lawyer Staughton Lynd died November 17 at the age of 92. His books include Wobblies and Zapatistas and Nonviolence in America.

Cricket promoter David English died November 12 at the age of 76. His books include Mad Dogs and the Englishman and The Bunburys Down Under.

Science fiction writer Greg Bear died November 19 at the age of 71. His many books include the Eon series and Darwin’s Radio.

Argentinian human rights activist who fought for the “disappeared “ Hebe de Bonafini died November 20 at the age of 93. Her books include La convicción de las Madres: la cobardía del enemigo and Une mère contre la dictature.

Actor/musician Wilko Johnson died November 21 at the age of 75. He wrote Don’t You Leave Me Here : My Life and Looking Back at Me.

Poet Bernadette Mayer died November 22 at the age of 77. Her works include A Bernadette Mayer Reader, Midwinter Day, and Works and Days.

Computer designer Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Died November 17 at the age of 91. His books include The Mythical Man-Month and The Design of Design.

Former Kentucky governor and KFC owner John Y. Brown, Jr. Died November 22 at the age of 88. He wrote Legend of the Praying Colonels.

Ice hockey star Borje Salming died November 24 at the age of 71. His books include Blood, Sweat, and Hockey and Grilling with Salming.

Moved to September.

>27 varielle: The author of those two books and a number of others is a Martin Barker 1946-2022 - he died on 8 September though.

>28 elkiedee: Thank you. I screwed up the name. The Guardian obits that are placed by family never have dates so it’s always a guess.

The name Martin Baker took me to a number of titles which didn't seem related to each other or to this, and I googled and found a Wikipedia entry for Martin Barker which is clearly for the person concerned, and included his dates of birth and death and a list of titles.

Rugby player Doddie Weir died November 26 at the age of 52. He wrote My Name’5 Doddie and The World According to Doddie.

Singer-songwriter Christine McVie died November 30 at the age of 79. She wrote Don’t Stop: A Children’s Picture Book (LyricPop).

Drama critic Michael Feingold died November 21 at the age of 77. His books include Grove New American Theater and Robert Patricks Cheep Theatricks.

Chinese politician Jiang Zemin died November 30 at the age of 96. His books include on the Development of China’s Information Technology Industry and Selected works of Jiang Zemin.

German author and pot Hans Magnus Enzensberger died November 24 at the age of 93. His books include The Numbers Devil, The Silences of Hammerstein, and Anarchy’s Brief Summer.

Artist Tom Phillips died November 28 at the age of 85. His work includes A Humument and The Postcard Century.

YA author Ellen Wittlinger died November 17 at the age of 74. Her books include Parrotfish, Hard Love, and Razzle.

Cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb-Crumb died November 29 at the age of 74. Her works include Need More Love: A Memoir, Drawn Together, and Love That Bunch.

>33 varielle: and >17 elkiedee: Marcus Sedgwick was only 54, I think.

Poet Richard Shelton died November 29 at the age of 89. His books include Crossing the Yard and Going back to Bisbee.

Government and military archivist John Prados died November 29 at the age of 71. His books include Combined Fleet Decoded and Islands of Destiny.

Writer and broadcaster Nick Fisher was found dead on November 17. He was 63. His books include The River Cottage Fish Book and Sea Fishing.

Journalist and anti-war activist Don Luce died November 17 at the age of 88. His books include Vietnam: The Unheard Voices and We Promise One Another: Poem from an Asian War.

EP Sanders died November 21st 2022. Writer of numerous works on the bible and the historical figure of Jesus.

One of the creators of Schoolhouse Rick George Newall died November 30 at the age of 88. He co-wrote Schoolhouse Rock! The Official Guide.

Historian George C. Herring died November 30 at the age of 86. His books include America’s Longest War and From Colony to SuperPower.

Military historian William M. Hammond died November 27 at the age of 79. His books include Reporting Vietnam and Public Affairs. The Military and the Media.

Historian Lawrence R. Hepburn died November 23 at the age of 82. His work includes The Georgia History Book and Contemporary Georgia.

Prisons reporter Eric Allison died November 2 at the age of 79. He co-wrote Strangeways 1990.

Novelist Marijane Meaker died November 21 at the age of 95. She wrote under multiple pen names. Her books include Deliver Us From Evie, Shoebag, and Gentlehands.

Journalist and lecturer Eamon Phoenix died November 13 at the age of 69. His books include Northern Nationalism and Two Acres of Irish History.

Playwright Adrian Flynn died November 13 at the age of 66. His works include Everest Burning, Hot Cakes, and The White Rose.

Sociologist Ken Plummer has died at the age of 76. His books include modern Homosexualities and Telling Sexual Stories.

Archaeologist Oscar White Muscarella died November 27 at the age of 91. His books include Ladders to Heaven, Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, and The lie Became Great.

Judge Stuart Namm died November 30 at the age of 89. He wrote A Whistleblower’s Lament.

Playwright and novelist David Pownall died November 21 at the age of 84. His work includes The White Cutter and The Raining Tree War.

Actress and Holocaust survivor Zdenka Fantlova died November 14 at the age of 100. She wrote My Lucky Star and The Tin Ring: How I Cheated Death.
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Fly fisherman Dave Whitlock died November 24 at the age of 88. His books include L. L. Bean Fly-Fishing Handbook and Dave Whitlock’s Guide to Aquatic Trout Foods.

Teacher Ann MacTaggart has died at the age of 86. She wrote Complete Book of Dressmaking. With her husband Peter she wrote Practical Gilding.

Historian Christopher Allmand died November 26 at the age of 86. His books include The Hundred Years War, The New Cambridge Medieval History, and Society at War.

Classicist George Leonard Huxley died November 30 at the age of 90. His books include The Early Ionians, Achaeans and the Hittites, and On Aristotle and Greek Society.

Sorry, error here. Intended to post in January 2023.

Botanist Olive Hilliard died November 30 at the age of 97. Her books include Compositae in Natal and Botany of the Southern Natal Drakensberg.

Sculptor Dick Polich died November 13 at the age of 90. He wrote Dick Polich: Transforming Metal into Art .

Psychologist and artist Morris Nitsun died November 10 at the age of 79. His books include The Anti-Group and The Group as an Object of Desire.

Chef Eileen Yin-Fei Lo died November 13 at the age of 85. Her books include The Chinese Kitchen and Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking.

Retired Temple University professor Donald Rackin died November 23 at the age of 89. His books include Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: Nonsense, Sense, and Meaning and The Advent of Alice: A Celebration of the Carroll Centenary: An Exhibition.

Museum director Simon Olding died November 19 at the age of 68. His catalogs include A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum and Russell-Cotes commissions.

Historian and Assyriologist Gwendolyn Leick died November 19 at the age of 71. Her books include Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City, The Babylonians : an introduction, and Who's who in the ancient Near East.

Astronomer Richard Berendzen died November 3 at the age of 84. His books include Come Here: A Man Overcomes the Tragic Aftermath of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Man discovers the galaxies, and Life Beyond Earth & the Mind of Man.

Photographer Loren Cameron died November 18 at the age of 63. He wrote Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits.