Many notable people, who left an incredible mark on our culture and society, passed on in 2008. This year we have said good-bye to the people listed below, whom I greatly admired and enjoyed their work.  I also picked my personal favorite or most memorable piece of theirs from the Library’s collection.

• George Carlin: George’s best stuff
• Arthur C Clarke: 2001: a space odyssey
• Bobby Fischer
• Estelle Getty
• Isaac Hayes: Ultimate Isaac Hayes: can you dig it?
• Heath Ledger: Ten things I hate about you
• Charlton Heston: The omega man
• Eartha Kitt: Purr-fect: greatest hits
• Bernie Mac: Pride
• Paul Newman: Cool Hand Luke
• Randy Pausch: The last lecture
• Sydney Pollack: Tootsie
• Tim Russert:  Big Russ and Me: father and son: lessons of life
• Yves Saint-Laurent
• Aleksander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich (and, which we noted his passing in this post)
• David Foster Wallace: Oblivion: stories
• Phyliss A Whitney: The ebony swan

Let us remember their work fondly.  For a more complete list of people who died in 2008, you may want to try this article from Wikipedia.  Who will you miss?  What are your favorites from his or her work?

1. Happy Holidays! Don’t Be Listless!
2. Father’s Day Factoids
3. Frank McCourt (19 August 1930 – 19 July 2009)
4. The Magic of Children’s Literature
5. On the Trail of a Movie Star