Obituaries

She became an international star as a member of the company and later directed it, guiding it out of debt and

He trekked up Ecuador’s tallest mountain twice a week for six decades to hack ice off a glacier with a pickax.

Mr. Sorbie, who styled hair for Helen Mirren, the Beach Boys and others, was honored by Queen Elizabeth II for services

In the 1880s, the only roles for Indigenous performers were laden with negative stereotypes. So Mohawk decided to write her own

The organization that he led advocated the separation of church and state, with no exceptions for holidays, currency, symbolism or blessings.

She wrote lovingly and often hilariously about her harrowing childhood in a working-class Southern family, as well as about the violence

He introduced ticket prices that couldn’t be beat, but asked fliers to pay extra for nearly everything, including water, carry-ons and

With her husband, David LaFlamme, she founded the rock band It’s a Wonderful Day and wrote a soaring paean to a

He was also behind the company’s “Welcome,” “File’s done” and “Goodbye” messages.

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he was a reporter, editor and columnist for The Washington Post, renowned for his deeply sourced