This month we take a moment to honor and remember authors we loved and lost in 2021.  Their stories and the impact they made will live on in the hearts and minds of readers everywhere.  They will be missed.

Eric Carle

Beverly Cleary

Eric Jerome Dickey

Joan Didion

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Patricia Reilly Giff

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James W. Loewen

Larry McMurtry

Gary Paulsen

Jerry Pinckney

Colin Powell

Anne Rice

Wilbur A. Smith

Desmond Tutu

Cicely Tyson

Betty White