Author Russell Hoban dies aged 86
Cult author Russell Hoban, who was best known for writing the science fiction novel Riddley Walker, has died aged 86, his publisher has announced.
A Bloomsbury spokeswoman said: “We are very saddened by the news that this much-loved and hugely treasured author has died.”
Hoban was also known for children’s books including The Mouse and His Child and the Frances The Badger series.
“Writing was my father’s life,” Phoebe Hoban told the New York Times.
He began writing children’s books in the late 1950s, with his first title, What Does it Do and How Does it Work, published in 1959.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1925, he eventually moved to London, where he remained for more than 30 years.
via BBC News.
