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Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty had been the longest-serving finance minister among the Group of Seven leading industrial economies until resigning in March to return to the private sector.  (Sean Kilpatrick / Associated Press)

British author Sue Townsend’s “Adrian Mole” diaries sold millions of copies.  (Ben McMillan / EPA/Penguin Group)

Colombian writer and poet Alvaro Mutis Jaramillo has died at 90.  (Jorge Uzon, AFP/Getty Images)

Larry Burrough takes part in a recent reunion of Los Angeles Herald Examiner staff members in Los Angeles.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Author Federico Campbell in his study in Mexico City.   (Chris Vail / For the Times)

In this 1990 file photo, U.S. President George H. W. Bush, standing, addresses a White House luncheon commemorating former President Dwight. D. Eisenhower’s 100th birthday. At right is John S.D. Eisenhower, the former president’s son. John S.D. Eisenhower, the son of a five-star general turned president who forged his own career in the U.S. Army and then chronicled the history of the American military in numerous books, died Dec. 21, 2013. He was 91.   (Barry Thumma / Associated Press)

A May 1972 photograph of Mad magazine Editor Al Feldstein, center, in his office. As editor, he boosted circulation from around 375,000 to more than 2 million.  (Jerry Mosey / Associated Press)

Author Allan Folsom on a book tour in Paris in 2005. None of his novels was ever filmed -- a great disappointment to him, his wife said.  (Ulf Andersen / Getty Images)

Jeanne Cooper won an Emmy in 2008 for best actress in a drama series. She played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless.”  (Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)

Poet Juan Gelman, shown at a 2008 exhibition in Madrid about Cervantes Prize winners, died Tuesday after battling leukemia.  (Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press)

Mike Gray is shown in 1998. He also wrote “Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out” and made several documentary films.  (Chuck Berman / Chicago Tribune)

Doris Lessing was the oldest-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature, awarded in 2007 when she was nearly 88.   (Shaun Curry / AFP / Getty Images)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, sitting with his wife, Mercedes Barcha, is asked by admirers in May 2007 to dedicate their books before boarding the train to visit his hometown of Aracataca, Colombia, for the first time in 20 years.  (Alejandra Vega, AFP/Getty Images)

Peter Matthiessen at his home in Sagaponack, N.Y., in 2004. He produced acclaimed volumes on natural history and chronicled his painful spiritual journey as he hiked through the Himalayas in “The Snow Leopard.”  (Ed Betz / Associated Press)

Joe McGinniss in 2010 at a home he rented in Wasilla, Alaska, next door to the home of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.   (Dan Joling / Associated Press)

Walter Dean Myers in 2010.  (Charles Sykes / Associated Press)

John Seigenthaler works in his office at the Tennessean newspaper in Nashville in 2005. The maverick journalist, who helped shape USA Today and championed civil rights, died Friday at the age of 86.  (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)

Bob Thomas, shown in 2009, covered a record 66 consecutive Academy Awards ceremonies.  (Nick Ut / Associated Press)

Garrick Utley (1939-2014) -- A versatile network television journalist.  (Mark Lennihan / Associated Press)

In a photograph from April 16, 1964, Willaim Worthy, left, and attorney William Kunstler look over Worthy’s application for a new U.S. passport. Worthy’s passport had been revoked after he defied State Department restrictions and traveled to China for a reporting trip in 1956.   (Bob Goldberg / Associated Press)

German-Jewish writer Stefanie Zweig, best known for her autobiographical novel “Nowhere in Africa,” has died at 81.  (Uwe Zucchi / Associated Press)