Recent necrology, May 2018

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Beth Chatto, 1923-2018
  English garden designer, plantswoman and writer

• Neville Cooper, 1926-2018
  Aka Hopeful Christian, leader of the Gloriavale Community

• Bernard Lewis, 1916-2018
  Foremost Western historian of Islam in the post-war era

• John Moorfield, 1943-2018
  Highly regarded Māori language academic, affectionately known as Te Murumāra

• Philip Roth, 1933-2018
  American novelist, author of Portnoy’s Complaint

• Clive Sinclair, 1948-2018
  English author who published several award-winning novels and collections of short stories

• Graeme Stanley, 1938-2018
  Christchurch ‘walktologist’ and former city councillor

• Tom Wolfe, 1931-2018
  American author and pioneer of New Journalism

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