Vivian Gussin Paley obituary
Other lives: Inspirational figure in early years education
Richard Booth obituary
Self-styled King of Hay who put the market town on the map by establishing it as a centre for the secondhand book trade
John Sansom obituary
Other lives: Prolific art book publisher who set up Redcliffe Press in Bristol
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