Media and publishing

Larry King (pictured), suspendered CNN talk show host who interviewed the famous and infamous, including seven U.S. presidents, athletes, entertainers, sex therapists, and psychics, died Jan. 23, age 87.

Larry Flynt, pornographer, provocateur, and free-speech advocate who built an empire with Hustler, died Feb. 10, age 78.

Rush Limbaugh, right-wing radio host who reshaped the Republican Party with his inflammatory brand of conservatism, died Feb. 17, age 70.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author, poet, and for seven decades the proprietor of San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore, who championed and published the Beats, died Feb. 22, age 101.

Beverly Cleary (pictured), children’s author who hooked generations of young readers with her tales of Ramona Quimby, Henry

Huggins, and Ralph S. Mouse, died March 25, age 104.

Larry McMurtry, bestselling Texas author who wrote Lonesome Dove and other unsentimental tales of the American West, died March 25, age 84.

Eric Carle, writer and illustrator who delighted millions of youngsters with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other storytime staples, died May 23, age 91.

Robert Bly, antiwar poet who sparked a men’s movement by urging American males to reconnect with their “interior warrior,” died Nov. 21, age 94

Anne Rice, gothic author who breathed new life into ancient bloodsuckers with Interview With the Vampire, died Dec. 11, age 80.

bell hooks, cultural activist, author, and theorist who helped push feminism to include the voices of Black and workingclass women, died Dec. 15, age 69.