And I can pinpoint this because this was the year I started blogging for the first time. Peck in November of 2006 at the Anne Carroll Moore Lecture at NYPL (back when they did such things). It just would have been nice not to have been posthumous. Peck would receive the next Wilder Award (under whatever name it will soon receive), and it’s still not out of the question. I think quite a few of us were hoping that perhaps Mr. Peck was an article in Publishers Weekly from April 27th of this year entitled Hey, Hide That Book! In it, he discusses censorship from fifty years ago when he was a teacher, and compares it to the recent incident where the head of a school decided to hide The Best Man from a book fair after one parent objected to its content (two men getting married). The Best Man could well be remembered as Richard’s bravest and most personal work.
The remarkable thing about Richard is that he ended his literary career on such a high note. Which is to say, of their last material being less than worthy of their talents (unless, of course, you think the animated Transformers movie was really good, and then all power to you). What was the first Richard Peck book you ever read? When did you really begin to know his name? Did you meet him? When? After that?Īll great artists live in danger of pulling an Orson Welles when they die. When one hears of the death of a great writer, you begin to cast your mind back. Many of us were shocked and saddened by the news.
In case you’re curious, this is his 1980 author photo from his adult novel Amanda/Miranda.Īs you may have heard, yesterday the great Newbery Award winning author Richard Peck died.
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