Charles Colson obituary
Former Nixon aide who was jailed in the wake of the Watergate scandal and turned to ChristianityF Scott Fitzgerald once said: "There are no second acts in American lives." Charles Colson might have caused him to reconsider. In 1972, Colson, who has die...
Leila Berg obituary
Children's writer who depicted the reality of working-class family life in her Nippers booksThe author and editor Leila Berg, who has died aged 94, was a passionate advocate for the empowerment of children, particularly through literature. In an articl...
Nick Webb obituary
Publisher behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and biographer of Douglas AdamsThe publisher Nick Webb, who has died of a pulmonary embolism following a stroke aged 63, commissioned Douglas Adams to turn his cult radio series The Hitchhiker's Gui...
Letter: ‘John Golding inspired huge loyalty from his colleagues and students’
A shy, humble but enormously intelligent and scholarly man of great integrity, John Golding (obituary, 13 April) inspired huge loyalty from his colleagues and among the many students he taught for some three decades. For art historians like me at the C...
Gillian Darley on John Golding: ‘He said that I could, and should, write’
John Golding was the most inspiring of an outstanding group of teachers in my undergraduate years, from 1966 to 1969, at the Courtauld Institute, and also by far the most human, inviting us to have a drink at the flat in Battersea, south London, that h...
Lord Ashley of Stoke
Labour politician who made his deafness no obstacle to his relentless championing of disadvantaged peopleThe Labour politician Jack Ashley, who has died aged 89 after suffering from pneumonia, was a many-layered hero. Deaf for most of his Westminster c...
Jean Benedetti
Biographer of Konstantin Stanislavski, he was also a translator, director and dramatistJean Benedetti, who has died aged 81, combined several theatrical careers in one. The former principal of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, in Sidcup,...
John Golding obituary
Artist, teacher and historian of modern art, he wrote a seminal work on cubismJohn Golding, who has died aged 82, packed into his life separate but intertwined careers as artist and historian of modern art. Soon after he had completed his doctoral diss...
Miss Read obituary
Bestselling author whose tales of a rural idyll were based on her own lifeMiss Read was the bestselling author who made real the idea of the English village school as a sane and safe haven for those growing up after the second world war. The books were...
Harry Crews obituary
American novelist whose southern gothic tales featured the requisite Bible-thumpers, snake-oil sellers and rednecksThe novelist Harry Crews, who has died aged 75, was part of a tradition of writers from the American south stretching back to and runnin...
Harry Crews obituary
American novelist whose southern gothic tales featured the requisite Bible-thumpers, snake-oil sellers and rednecksThe novelist Harry Crews, who has died aged 75, was part of a tradition of writers from the American south stretching back to and runnin...
Letter: Antonio Tabucchi was keen to expose the crookedness of politicians, particularly in Italy and Portugal
Philip Cooke's obituary of Antonio Tabucchi (4 April) rightly draws attention to Tabucchi's determination to remind us that "fascism is a great historical wound which is not yet healed". Tabucchi was equally determined to expose the crookedness of poli...
