MARILYN JOHNSON

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Thanks to the New York Public Library and NYPL Live for hosting an entertaining panel on the art of the obituary, featuring Paul Holdengräber, Dan Okrent, me, and Ann Wroe of the Economist. We're celebrating the publication of The Economist Book of Obituaries, a terrific book.

Thanks also to WNYC, which has kindly posted an audio file of Live from NYPL presents Dead from the NYPL: The Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries. For a review of the evening, check out Obit Magazine. Want to read more about Ann Wroe and her influence on the art of the obituary? Check out The Dead Beat.

 

I wrote The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries after writing obituaries for Katharine Hepburn, Princess Diana, Jackie Onassis, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, and Marlon Brando for Life and other magazines. I've been a staff writer for Life and an editor for Esquire. My articles, reviews, essays, and poetry have appeared in many publications. I live in Briarcliff, New York, and I'm working on another book.

NEWS

Interview with Ann Wroe of The Economist
NPR's Leonard Lopate Show

Interview with Jean Feraca &
Ann Wroe of the Economist
NPR's Here on Earth

Barnes & Noble Interview
Marilyn Johnson

The Dead Beat honored:

Borders Original Voice

Barnes & Noble
Discover Prize finalist

Amazon Best Books of 2006
Top 10 Editors' Picks: Nonfiction

2007 Washington Irving
Book Selection

San Francisco Chronicle
Best Books of 2006

Haiku Journalism
by Marilyn Johnson
in The New York Times Book Review

The Check I Cherished
by Marilyn Johnson
in Chronogram

Just Under Twenty Questions
by Claire Zulkey
www.Zulkey.com

Bringing the Dead to Life
by Bob Chaundy
BBC News Online

Death is the Story of Their Lives
by Craig Wilson
USA Today