Jerome Ch’en obituary

Historian of modern China, cut off from his roots, who rued the rise of the military and the Communist conquest

William Gray obituary

Literary critic whose multidisciplinary perspective revealed the existential depth of fairytales and fantasy

Brenda Maddox obituary

Author of a groundbreaking study of step-parenting, and biographer of Nora Barnacle, the wife and muse of James Joyce

Judith Krantz obituary

American author best known for her ‘sex-and-shopping’ novels such as Scruples and Princess Daisy