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Gene Wolfe dies: Science-fiction writer with a literary touch was 87

April 28, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

Gene Wolfe, an industrial engineer who helped devise the cooking process for Pringles, the stackable chip, then turned to fantasy and science-fiction writing to craft intricate, philosophically rich novels that...

Actor Richard Erdman attends The Paley ...

Richard Erdman dies: Colorado-raised actor in “Stalag 17” and “Community” was 93

March 17, 2019 at 10:42 p.m.

Richard Erdman, a wisecracking character actor who appeared in more than 175 film and television productions, including as a barracks chief in "Stalag 17," a time-stopping boor in "The Twilight...

Larry Harvey, philosophical force behind Burning Man festival, dies at 70

April 29, 2018 at 7:10 p.m.

Larry Harvey, a San Francisco landscape gardener who built an oversized human effigy, doused it with gasoline and ignited a countercultural phenomenon -- the playfully anarchic, wildly imaginative art festival...

Daphne Sheldrick, who created an elephant orphanage in Kenya, dies at 83

April 15, 2018 at 7:51 p.m.

Daphne Sheldrick, a Kenyan wildlife conservationist who helped nurse, bathe and occasionally apply sunscreen to more than 230 orphaned elephants, and whose decades of work on their behalf made her...

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