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1926 – 2016Harper Lee (1926-2016)Died 19 February 2016, aged 89Lee was an American author best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which won the Pulitzer Prize and became a staple of school curricula worldwide. A long-awaited follow-up, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015. She rarely gave interviews after her early fame.
1932 – 2016Umberto EcoItalian novelist and philosopherEco wrote The Name of the Rose, combining mystery, semiotics, and historical fiction.