Janet Malcolm obituary

Staff writer for the New Yorker who wrote about the practice of journalism, art and biography

Tom West obituary

Other lives: English teacher and librarian with eclectic interests, from choral music to Harry Potter

Other lives: Librarian at the University of Sheffield Health Sciences Library

Bestselling author of historical fiction known for her Seven Sisters series

Researcher into mathematical approaches to real-world problems who seized on the increased possibilities offered by computers

Author, doctor and inventor of the term lateral thinking who wrote more than 60 books on his original and unorthodox theories

American celebrity lawyer who was part of the ‘dream team’ that defended OJ Simpson during his murder trial

Climate physicist and expert on thunderstorm electrification who was also a published poet

Literary critic who defended traditional values against campus radicals

Illustrator and author of classic children’s books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Outstanding cricket writer and biographer whose work graced the pages of the Guardian for 40 years

Historian who painted a vivid picture of life in medieval cities such as London and Winchester

Writer, essayist and broadcaster whose extraordinarily capacious intellect was allied to a sense of fun

Other Lives: Poet and small press publisher involved in the British counterculture of the 1960s

Other lives: Author and journalist who wrote a weekly column on surprising statistics for the Guardian in the 1990s