Gabriel García Márquez remembered

The literary titan and Nobel Prize recipient Gabriel García Márquez passed away in Mexico City on Thursday 17 April 2014 at the age of 87. Read The New York Times‘ obituary, as well as coverage in The New Yorker.

A selection of the Library’s collection of García Márquez’s books, as well as biographies about him, are on special display near the front entrance for the next few days.