Hugh Brogan obituary
Leading historian of the US admired for his acclaimed biographies of Alexis de Tocqueville and Arthur Ransome
Daryll Mitchell obituary
Other lives: Businessman who did much to keep the memory of his father, the author Lewis Grassic Gibbon, alive
David Rubinstein obituary
Other lives: Social historian who wrote on education, housing, the labour movement and women’s history
Paul Connerton obituary
Other lives: Cultural theorist who was internationally recognised for his work on social memory
Paule Marshall obituary
Novelist who explored African-American life as experienced by recent arrivals from the Caribbean
Jonathan Cutbill obituary
Other lives: Founder of Gay’s the Word bookshop in London
Liz Cooper obituary
Other lives: Socialist feminist who organised the distribution of radical publications across Britain
Toni Morrison remembered: ‘Her irreverence was godly’
Leading contemporaries pay tribute to the Nobel prize-winning novelist
István Bart obituary
Other lives: Publisher and translator of English-language literary works into Hungarian
Chris Kraft obituary
Nasa’s first flight director who controlled the Apollo moon landings
Toni Morrison obituary
Nobel prizewinner and author whose stories have a strong historical and cultural base and a style, structure and tone that is specifically African American
Marcel Berlins obituary
Legal journalist, broadcaster, crime fiction critic and proud French citizen
Carry Franklin obituary
Other lives: Artist and teacher, and the founder of Little Free Libraries in Leeds
Malaika Rose Stanley obituary
Other lives: Popular children’s author whose work ranged from picture books to pre-teen fiction
Robert Young obituary
Other lives: Psychotherapist and author of books on Darwin and the history of ideas