In Memoriam: Losses in the Literary Community

The literary world has lost three titans in the last week.

Else Holmelund Minarik, whose Little Bear picture books delighted generations of children, passed away last week at her Sunset Beach, N.C., home at the age of 91.

Last week we also lost Donald J. Sobol, the beautiful mind behind boy detective Encyclopedia Brown. He passed away in Miami at the age of 87 of lymphoma according to his family.