Deaths in February 2012

Famed boxing trainer Angelo Dundee died February 1 at the age of 90. He was the author of My View from the Corner and I Only Talk Winning.

Polish Nobel prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska died February 1 at the age of 88. A few of her collections include Here, View with a Grain of Sand, That's What We Live For and Questions Put To Myself.

Szymborska was a very fine poet.

Actor Ben Gazzara died February 3 at the age of 81. His memoir was called In the Moment.

Author of the many-volumed series on the adventures of the widow Mrs. Pollifax, Dorothy Gilman died February 2 at the age of 88.

AP correspondent George Esper stayed behind to cover the fall of Vietnam. He later became a professor of journalism at West Virginia University. He died February 2 at the age of 79. He was the author of Eyewitness History of the Vietnam War.

Science fiction author John Christopher nee Samuel Christopher Youd, died February 3 at the age of 89. A few of his many books include The Tripods Trilogy, The White Mountains, The City of Cold and Lead and The Pool of Fire.

British childbirth guru Betty Parsons died February 1 at the age of 96. She was the author of Preparing for Childbirth and The expectant Father.

Jeffrey Zaslow, bestselling author of The Last Lecture, The Girls from Ames, Highest Duty with the Miracle on the Hudson pilot Chesley Sullenberger, as well as the new book on Gabby Giffords Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope, lost control of his car on a snowy Michigan road and was hit by a semi and died on February 10. He was only 53.

Thanks morphidae for spotting this one.

Hungarian playwright and politician Istvan Csurka died Ferbruary 4 at the age of 77.

Reformed rabbi W. Gunther Plaut died February 8 at the age of 99. A few of his many books include The Torah: A Modern Commentary and The Haftarah Commentary.

Civil rights reformer Patricia Stephens Due died February 7 at the age of 72. She co-wrote, with her novelist daughter Tananarive Due, Freedom in the Family.

Comic book artist and one of the founding artists of Mad Magazine, John Severin died February 12 at the age of 90.

Photographer Lillian Bassman died February 13 at the age of 94. Some of her fashion photography from the 1950s was collected in Lillian Bassman: Women.

Royal tabloid correspondent James Whitaker died February 15 at the age of 71. He was the author of Diana versus Charles: Royal Blood Feud.

Standardized testing psychologist Robert Glaser died February 4 at the age of 91. He was the author of The Nature of Expertise, Advances in Instructional Psychology and Adaptive Education: Individual Diversity and Learning.

Theologian John Hick died February 9 at the age of 90. A few of his many books include The Myth of God Incarnate, Evil and the God of Love and Philosophy of Religion.

Pulitzer prize winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died February 16, at the age of 43, while on assignment in Syria, of an apparent asthma attack. He was the author of Legacy of the Prophet, Night Draws Near and House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East.

Ex-wife of Andre Previn, lyricist and songwriter Dory Previn died February 14 at the age of 86. Her memoir was called Midnight Baby.

Former advisor to Pres. Johnson, Harry McPherson died February 16 at the age of 82. His memoir ws called A Political Education.

Oral historian Ronald Fraser died February 10 at the age of 81. A few of his books include Blood of Spain, In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes, In Search of a Past: The Rearing of an English Gentleman and Napoleon's Cursed War.

Adventurer John Fairfax, who rowed across both the Atlantic and the Pacific, died February 8 at the age of 74. He was the author of Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic and Oars Across the Pacific.

Historian M.R.D. Foot died February 18 at the age of 92. A few of his many books include SOE, The Special Operations Executive 1940-46, SOE in France and British Foreign Policy Since 1898.

Nobel prize winning cancer research Renato Dulbecco died February 19 at the age of 97. He was the author of The Design of Life and Virology.

British outdoorsman David Edelsten died February 2 at the age of 78. He was the author of The Nearest Guard, the Dorset Diaries series, Autumn Leaves and Golden Days and Hoof-Beats Through My Feet.

Editor Barney G. Rosset died February 21 at the age of 89. He is best known for his fight against censorship and bringing notable European authors to US readers at the Grove Press. He's known for editing Samuel Beckett, J.G. Ballard and Others, the Evergreen Review and The Blue Moon Erotic Reader.

Art historian John Gage died February 10 at the age of 73. A few of his books are Color and Culture and J.M.W. Turner: A Wonderful Range of Mind.

Psychological researcher Ulric Neisser died February 17 at the age of 83. He was the author of Cognitive Psychology.

Jan Berenstain creater of the Berenstain Bears died February 24 at the age of 88. Her son spoke of her on NPR this week. I'll try to come back with the link.

eta Here it is. http://www.npr.org/2012/02/27/147516778/jan-berenstain-co-creator-of-berenstain-...

When we were young my best friend built a virtual shrine to Davy Jones in her bedroom. The diminuitive Monkee's real dream was to be a jockey instead of being in a boy band. He died February 29 at the age of 66. His memoir was called They Made a Monkee Out of Me. I want to be a Daydream Believer! *sniff*

25: This has to be the saddest one for me yet. I watched the reruns in the 80s and had such a crush on Davy.

Southern gothic author William Gay died February 23 at the age of 70. A few of his books include The Long Home, Provinces of Night, and I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down.

Theologian William Hamilton died February 28 at the age of 88. He was co-author of Radical Theology and the Death of God.

Art historian John House died February 7 at the age of 66. He was the author of Impressionism: Paint and Politics.

Advertising man and later encyclopedist James Trager died February 29 at the age of 86. He was responsible for The People's Chronology, The Women's Chronology and The New York Chronology.

One of the first female professors at Yale, Ruth Barcan Marcus died February 19 at the age of 90. She was the author of Modalities: Philosophical Essays.

Creator of the British puppets Rag, Tag and Bobtail, Louise Cochrane died February 13 at the age of 93. She was the author of Sheila Goes Gardening, Social Work for Jill, Tabletop Theatres, Sense of Significance and Shadow Puppets in Color.

Last of the WWII official artists Leonard Rosoman died February 21 at the age of 98.

One of the illustrators of the Batman comics, Sheldon Moldoff died February 29 at the age of 91.

Author Benedict Freedman died February 24 at the age of 92. He wrote Mrs. Mike which was made into a movie. He also wrote The Search for Joyful and Kathy Little Bird.

Oh. So sorry to hear this. I loved his books (along with his wife Nancy). They are beautifully and wonderfully written.

Historian Peter Novick died February 17 at the age of 77. He was the author of The Holocaust in American Life and The Noble Dream.

Expert on biodynamic agriculture Maria Thun died February 9 at the age of 89. She was the author of Gardening for Life and When Wine Tastes Best.

Theologian William Hamilton died February 28 at the age of 87. He was the author of On Taking God out of the Dictionary, Reading Moby Dick and other Essays and Sine Nomine.

Novelist David Bowman died February 27 at the age of 54. He was author of Let the Dog Drive, Bunny Modern and This must be the Place: The Adventures of the Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century.