Deaths archives

Octavia Butler

Octavia Butler died yesterday after a fall at her home. She was 58. Butler was a brilliant writer of science fiction, one of the few African-American women in the field, and the first writer of genre fiction to win a...

Betty Friedan

The famous "second-wave" feminist, perhaps best known as author of The Feminine Mystique, died yesterday at age 85. (Hat tip, Scrivener)...

Coretta Scott King

I come to this news late: Coretta Scott King has died at age 78. May we carry on her mantle of racial justice and peace....

Wendy Wasserstein

Feminist playwright Wendy Wasserstein has died of lymphoma at age 55. She is best known for her plays "Uncommon Women and Others," "The Heidi Chronicles," and "The Sisters Rosensweig," providing roles for some the best female actors of her generation...