Poet and novelist Sam Greenlee, whose novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door, "about his experiences as a rare black man working for the U.S. Foreign Service in the 1950s and 60s was turned into a 1973 independent film," died Monday, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 83. Greenlaw "had been around the world but returned to the neighborhood he grew up in to write poetry and another novel, Baghdad Blues," the Times noted.
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Iconic Indian bookseller Kanwarjit Singh Dhingra (known as K.D.), founder (in 1970) and owner of the Book Shop in New Delhi, died Wednesday, Mint reported, adding that "the day following his death, the Book Shop opened as usual. Just as K.D. would have liked." He was 73.
Calling him a "bookseller with a heart," Aseem Chhabra wrote: "I always felt that he cared for his books and the relationship he had with his regular clients, recommending them new arrivals or his favorites. He seemed to enjoy that relationship--connecting good books with readers."
