blogis librorum. A blog about books. Rare books.

Kage Baker has passed away this morning after a fierce struggle with cancer. She was best known for her Company novels, including In the Garden of Iden. For months, she had fought the uterine cancer privately, but the tumor spread to her brain.

Please visit us at the Los Angeles ABAA Bookfair at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza between  Friday, February 12, 2010 at 5:00pm and Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 5:00pm.  Books Tell You Why will be in booth 419.   We usually get a couple of complimentary tickets, please contact us if interested.

J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose The Catcher in the Rye shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.

(CNN) -- Noted author and social activist Howard Zinn died of a heart attack Wednesday while traveling, his daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn, said.

Louis Auchincloss, a Wall Street lawyer from a prominent New York family who became a widely read author of dozens of books that plumbed the world of Manhattan’s old-money elite, died Tuesday night in Manhattan. He was 92.