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Deaths noticed

Madigan, Nick

2007

Overview

\"What's different now is people reading obituaries of people they've never heard of and loving it,\" said Marilyn Johnson, author of The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries (HarperCollins, 2006). \"Because of the Internet, people can e-mail obits to each other, and they can gather in these creepy little news groups and read them from around the world.\" The Hilliers and their editor, Krishna Andavolu, said they have taken cues from established obituary writers like Jim Sheeler, a reporter with Denver's Rocky Mountain News who won a Pulitzer Prize last year for his report \"Final Salute,\" which looked at how U.S. Marines honor comrades who have died in battle. Sheeler also co- wrote, with fellow obit writers Alana Baranick and Stephen Miller, Life on the Death Beat: A Handbook for Obituary Writers (Marion Street Press, 2006). --marilynjohnson.net: Marilyn Johnson, author of The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries, wrote obituaries for Katharine Hepburn, Princess Diana, [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis], Johnny Cash and Marlon Brando for Life and other magazines.

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