Born March 1927

Lillian Vernon, the businesswoman who founded the mail-order catalog company that bears her name, has died. She was 88. Vernon, whose corporation was the first company founded by a woman …

His flamboyant and melancholy fictional works – among them “Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” ”Love in the Time of Cholera” and “Autumn of the Patriarch” – outsold everything published in …

His failed 1980s nomination to the Supreme Court helped draw the modern boundaries of cultural fights.

He was the self-deprecating author of “Paper Lion.”