Obituaries

His family moved to Cedarhurst, N.Y., on Long Island, when he was a child. As a student at Lawrence High School,

She painted and sculpted, but she was best known for her oversized still lifes, painted from photographs and crowded with color

V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist whose discovery that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of breast cancer cells opened

Bruce Bastian, a founder of the WordPerfect Corporation, whose word processor was the favored tool for writing during the early days

June Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose exploration of the female form, by turns whimsical, graceful or ominous, paved the way

Shay Youngblood, a novelist and playwright whose works about her upbringing by a churchgoing cohort of “Big Mamas” and her adventures

Ismail Kadare, the Albanian novelist and poet who single-handedly wrote his isolated Balkan homeland onto the map of world literature, creating

Soma Golden Behr, a longtime senior editor at The New York Times who was a centrifuge of story ideas — they

Soma Golden Behr, a longtime senior editor at The New York Times who was a centrifuge of story ideas — they

Dr. Mildred Thornton Stahlman, a Vanderbilt University pediatrician whose research on fatal lung disease in newborns led to lifesaving treatments and