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Jilly Cooper, the prolific British author whose steamy Rutshire Chronicles novels were the basis of Disney+ comedy-drama Rivals, has died aged 88. She passed away suddenly on Sunday morning after a fall, according to a statement from her agent, Curtis Brown, and an outpouring of grief has begun following her death. “Mum was the shining light in all of our …

A Debut Novelist Satirizes New York’s Creative Class  The Wall Street Journal Source link

Greg Iles, the Mississippi author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and other works, has died. He was 65. Iles died on Friday after a decades-long battle with the blood cancer multiple myeloma, his literary agent, Dan Conaway, posted on Saturday on Facebook. Initially diagnosed with the incurable condition in 1996, he kept his illness private until completing his final novel, …