Deaths in September - 2014

Journalism professor A. J. Langguth died September 1 at the age of 81. His books include Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution and Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence.

Comedienne and host of Fashion Police, Joan Rivers died September 4 at the age of 81. A few of her books include I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, Murder at the Academy Awards and The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abromowitz.

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Years ago, when I was expecting, I was given a copy of her Having a Baby Can Be a Scream.

Book dealer specializing in works on crime, Camille Wolff died September 4 at the age of 102. She wrote Who Was Jack the Ripper?.

Prolific fantasy novelist Graham Joyce died September 9 at the age of 59. His books include The Tooth Fairy, Some Kind of Fairy Tale and The Silent Land.

Actress and make-up mogul Polly Bergen died September 20 at the age of 84. She wrote Polly's Principles.

Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Tony Auth died September 14 at the age of 72. His books include Sleeping Babies and The Gang of Eight.

Poet and author John Moat Died September 16 at the age of 78. He wrote The Founding of Arvon.

The last of the Mitford sisters, Deborah Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire has died on September 24 at the age of 94. A few of her books include Wait for Me!: Memoirs, In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor and Chatsworth: The HOme of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire.

Author and artist Pati Hill died September 19 at the age of 93. She wrote The Pit and the Century Plant and Impossible Dreams.

Famed conductor Christopher Hogwood died September 24 at the age of 73. His books include Handel, Music at Court and Haydn's Visits to England.

Welsh poet Dannie Abse died September 28 at the age of 91. His works include Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve and Speak, Old Parrot.

Novelist J. California Cooper died September 20 at the age of 82. A few of her books include Family, Some People, Some Other Place, The Wake of the Wind and Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories.

Women's magazine editor John Mack Carter died September 26 at the age of 86. His books include editing the Good Housekeeping All-American Cookbook and How to be Outrageously Successful with Women.

Right to die advocate Gerald A. Larue died September 17 at the age of 98. He wrote Euthanasia and Religion and Freethought Across the Centuries.

A leader in Chicago theater, Sheldon Patinkin died September 21 at the age of 79. He wrote The Second City and No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance.

Former U. S. Congressman James Traficant died September 27 at the age of 73. He wrote America's Last Minuteman.

Magazine editor Karl Miller died September 24 at the age of 83. He wrote Cockburn''s Millenium and The Electric Shepherd.

Former major league baseball player George Shuba died September 29 at the age of 89. He was the man who shook Jackie Robinson's hand in welcome in 1946, while he was playing for the opposing team the Royals. Mr. Shuba wrote My Memories as a Brooklyn Dodger.

Expert on children's literature, Mary Cadogan died on September 29 at the age of 86. Her books include You're a Brick Angela, Chin Up Chest Out, Jemima! and Richmal Crompton.

Morris F. Collen worked hard to integrate medicine and computers. He died September 27 at the age of 100. His books include A History of Medical Informatics and Computer Medical Databases.

MoMA film preservationist Mary Lea Bandy died September 20 at the age of 71. Her books include Rediscovering French Film and Ride, Boldly Ride.

Jerrie Mock, the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe solo died September 30 at the age of 88. Her book was called Three-Eight Charlie.

Physicist Martin Perl died September 30 at the age of 87. He wrote Reflections on Experimental Science.

Scottish poet and translator Alastair Reid died September 21 at the age of 88. His books include Ounce Dice Trice, Whereabouts: Notes on being a Foreigner and A Balloon for Blunderbuss.

Scholar and priest, the Right Rev. Stephen Sykes died September 24 at the age of 75. His books include The Study of Anglicanism and Unashamed Anglicanism.

Biographer Park Honan died September 27 at the age of 86. His books include Shakespeare: A Life and Jane Austen: Her Life.

A man with many pen names, Hugh C. Rae died September 24 at the age of 78. He kept his gender secret for many years writing under the name of bodice ripping author Jessica Stirling. However, his true identity was revealed after receiving a prize nomination. His better known books include The Fields of Fortune, The Constant Star, The Wind from the Hills and Harkfast.

Founder of the Chick-Fil-A chain, S. Truett Cathy died September 8 at the age of 93. His autobiography was called Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More People.

Criminologist Nigel Walker died September 13 at the age of 97. His books include Why Punish? and Behavior and Misbehavior.

Retired U.S. Col. Joseph H. Alexander died September 28 at the age of 76. A few of his books include Utmost Savagery, Storm Landings, A Fellowship of Valor and Edson's Raiders.

Opthalmologist Prof. Andrew Elkington died September 11 at the age of 78. He wrote Clinical Optics.