Sad News, Four Times Over
Posted By Ardellis on February 27, 2006
They say these things happen in threes, but we’ve had FOUR celebrity deaths over this past weekend. Darren McGavin. Don Knotts. Dennis Weaver. Octavia Butler. Three were elderly actors whose works filled my childhood with images of heroes and clowns. The other a brilliant woman, far too young (58), who was not only the first major African-American woman science fiction writer (a Hugo and Nebula winner) but the only science fiction writer ever to win a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.”
Rest in peace.
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