Ann Schlee, who has died aged 89, was one of those rare novelists who found success writing for both children and adults. The Vandal, a dystopian tale of alienation in Thatcherite Britain, won the 1980 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, while Rhine Journey, the story of a Victorian spinster’s emotional awakening on a European excursion, was shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize and was nearly adapted by Tom Stoppard into a script.
In Loving Memory: Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, great-aunt, sister, and consumer of life experience. Lucina (Tina) Johnson Lewis died suddenly of natural causes on September 29, 2023 at age
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, great-aunt, sister, and consumer of life experience, Lucina Johnson Lewis (“Tina”) died suddenly of natural causes on Sept. 29, 2023, at age 77, at her home in Durham, N.C. Born to George F.B. Johnson Jr. and Audrey Strong Johnson on Jan. 25, 1946, Tina grew up in Greenwich, Conn., and […]