Just noticed in The Guardian that Russell Hoban died. (It will take US papers another week to decided whether it’s worth reporting. We’re so insular much of the time.)
Hoban wrote nearly non-stop, trying in the past twenty years or so to complete a book a year. His two best, going back still further, were The Mouse and His Child (the most adult, which is to say “mature,” children’s book I know) and Riddley Walker (the best apocalyptic novel I know, though The Road comes close).