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…
