Obituaries

Mark Deitch, 67, a former dissident who became a well-known journalist in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, died in Bali, Indonesia, in early May while saving a young girl from drowning. Accounts didn’t give the exact date. [[READMORE]] Deitch was a prominent anti-Soviet journalist before the fall of communism and worked for […]

Author and artist Maurice Sendak, writer of some of the darkest yet most beloved children’s books of the 20th century, died May 8 at 83. [[READMORE]] Sendak’s classics included 1963’s, “Where the Wild Things Are,” whose yellow-toothed, grasping monsters were based on his relatives, “In the Night Kitchen,” “Alligators All Around,” “Chicken Soup With Rice,” […]