2010 has started out with a bang, and it’s not a good one: quite a few well-known writers have died since this year began!
Here are some of the authors we’ve lost:
William Tuohy, 83
He was a former Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent who covered the Vietnam War and who wrote three well-known books: DANGEROUS COMPANY (1987), detailing his time as a war correspondent; THE BRAVEST MAN: The Story of Richard O’Kane and U.S. Submariners in the Pacific War (2001); and “AMERICA’S FIGHTING ADMIRALS: Winning the War at Sea in World War II” (2007). Tuohy died Dec. 31 after open-heart surgery at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif.
Dick Zunt, 78
Cleveland’s Plain Dealer sports writer who covered the city’s high school teams for more than 50 years, died on Jan 2nd.
Margery Beddow, 72
Broadway dancer, choreographer, director and author of BOB FOSSE’S BROADWAY, also passed away Jan 2nd.
Stephen Huneck, 60
A Vermont man whose love of dogs inspired his art and books (SALLY GOES TO THE BEACH, MY DOG”S BRAIN) and the building of a unique dog chapel, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Jan 7th. He had been suffering from depression for quite some time before taking his own life.
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According to the Associated Press, bestselling author Tony Hillerman died Sunday, age 83, of pulmonary failure. According to his daughter, Anne Hillerman, Hillerman’s health had declined over the last few years, including his having suffered 2 heart attacks along with surgeries for prostate and bladder cancers. 
