SAYING FAREWELL TO THREE GREAT AUTHORS

The Literary community mourns the passing of 3 great authors in the last few weeks.

Sir John Clifford Mortimer died Friday January 16, 2009 at his home in Oxford England. He is best known for his series of books written about the character Horace Rumpole.

Mortimer, like Rumpole was also a barrister as well as an author and playwright. He was born April 21, 1923 in London

The Green Free has many of his works including: Dunster;Felix in the Underworld; and several of the Rumpole series.

John Hoyer Updike was born March 18, 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He died on January 27, 2009 in Danvers, Massachusetts. His most famouse were were the Rabbit series(Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered. Both Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest received the Pulitzer Prize Award.

During his lifetime, Updike published more than 25 novels, over a dozen short story collections, and hundred of poems, stories, criticisms and reviews.

The Green Free Library's collection contains 40 of his works including the Rabbit series; Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism and his childrens books: A Child's Calendar and A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects.

James Winston Brady died also on Monday January 27, 2009 at his home in Manhattan, New York. He was born November 15, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York and served several years in the Marine Corp before beginning his career as an author, publisher and columnist.

He is perhaps best known for his weekly column "In Step", for Parade, but also helped start the Page Six gossip column at the New York Post.

The Green Free Library has several of his fiction and non-fiction works including "The scariest place in the world : a marine returns to North Korea" and "The Marines of autumn : a novel of the Korean War "

To see what other works The Green Free Library has by these, and other authors check out our on line catalog.