Obituaries

She was the rare woman in her field, and a tenured professor. But when a sexist colleague was promoted, she quit,

One of the last Democrats from the Great Plains to be elected to national office, he built his career on delivering

His father, Norman Rockwell, depicted his childhood on covers of The Saturday Evening Post. The worms came later.

The patriarch of a powerful family, his Tata Group put an indelible stamp on Indian life while acquiring British brand names

He wrote seminal texts on the artists Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, in a jargon-free style that won him readers far

She survived Auschwitz, wrote a best-selling memoir, “Lily’s Promise,” and spoke to a following of 2 million fans on TikTok.

Known for his legs as well as for his arm, he was the last Detroit Lions quarterback to make the Pro

Cuban-born and charismatic, with a personal tale caught up in politics, he was a dominant hurler with a quirky windup who

One of thousands of Jewish children transported to England at the dawn of World War II, she explored themes of displacement

Once called “probably the funniest and most malicious” of the postmodernists, his books reflected a career-long interest in reimagining folk stories,