Diana Wynne Jones, 1934-2011

[tigerfort]

On the offchance anyone doesn't already know, Diana Wynne Jones died at the weekend, after a long battle with cancer. A national treasure, as Neil Gaiman rightly said*, who will be missed by many. (Obit. by Chris Priest; also one by Neil Gaiman, as pointed out by na_lon, and another, by Emma Bull.)

* I've speculated elsewhere that Mr G's own rise to fame can be tracked quite neatly by the changing attribution of that comment - originally just "Locus magazine", then "Neil Gaiman in Locus", and finally "Neil Gaiman" without mentioning the magazine.

Comments

[gossmore]

I did hear, but thank you for finding it a reason to post. :)

[na-lon.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this one?
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/03/being-alive.html