News for Jan. 05, 2005
Tolkien Biographer Humphrey Carpenter Dead at 58
1/05/05, 10:20 am EST - weetanya
From The Scotsman: "Children’s author and broadcaster Humphrey Carpenter has died after suffering heart failure, it emerged today. Mr Carpenter, 58, wrote the successful Mr Majeika series of books as well as biographies of JRR Tolkien and Benjamin Britten." [More]
From BBC News: "The writer and broadcaster Humphrey Carpenter has died aged 58. Carpenter created the Mr Majeika children's books, turned into a TV series starring Stanley Baxter." [More]