Award-winning biographer Justin Kaplan, "who was later known as the editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations--a job akin to running the admissions committee of the most selective college in the world," died Sunday, the New York Times reported. He was 88. Kaplan's books included Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, winner of a Pulitzer Prize as well as a National Book Award; and Walt Whitman: A Life, which also won a National Book Award.
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Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, a surgeon and author whose National Book Award-winning 1994 book How We Die "sought to dispel the notion of death with dignity and fueled a national conversation about end-of-life decisions," died yesterday, the New York Times reported. He was 83.
