Man, what a shocker - historian Michael King and his wife were killed in a car accident. And right when he seemed to be beating cancer.
First Janet Frame and now this - it's a bad year for New Zealand letters already!
Even the Act party, previously believed to be immune from human emotion, are shocked.
King is probably the most popular New Zealand historian outside of school rooms - people actually read his books for fun. I guess we'd all better pick up a copy of his most recent book, the Penguin History of New Zealand - although it sounds like everyone but me already has...
Posted by pearce at April 1, 2004 7:23 AMHappy Birthday Pearce!
Posted by: cal at April 7, 2004 7:15 AMHey - happy birthday too there Pearce. If you weren't such a recluse I'd have seen you last Sunday and probably found out that you were having a birthday. Make sureyou come to next session. Carlotta is a whole lotta woman - more than Chris can handle...
Posted by: chuck at April 8, 2004 11:45 AM