Izola Ware Curry passed away on March 7th. This is slightly old news, but I’ve been waiting for a good link.
For those of you who are saying, “Who?”: Ms. Curry was the woman who stabbed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The stabbing nearly cost Dr. King his life, requiring hours of delicate surgery to remove Ms. Curry’s blade, a seven-inch ivory-handled steel letter opener, which had lodged near his heart. If he had so much as sneezed, his doctors later told him, he would not have survived.
Ms. Curry was found incompetent to stand trial and spent the rest of her life in a series of institutions.
Chinua Achebe, noted Nigerian author, has also passed away. Somewhere I have a copy of Things Fall Apart
. I need to dig that out, as I’ve been meaning to read it, and I seem to be out of Ross Thomas books at the moment.
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