Ann Hornaday, who championed the craft of filmmaking and helped readers understand the enduring magic and occasional disappointment of movies as The Washington Post's longtime chief film critic, died Oct. 18 at her home in Baltimore. She was 66. The cause... See more
Jim Bakker, a televangelist who once led a multimillion-dollar religious empire with his wife, Tammy Faye, before a sex sandal tarnished his reputation and a conviction for fraud and conspiracy sent him to federal prison, died Oct. 5. He was 86. His secon... See more
Charles Trueheart, who wrote elegant profiles for The Washington Post and served as a foreign correspondent before drawing on his family's experiences in an acclaimed book about the Vietnam War, died Sept. 15 at his home in Staunton, Virginia. He was 75. ... See more
Cameras, lenses and lighting were all part of Margaret Thomas’s tools as a photojournalist. But the technical side of taking pictures was perhaps the least challenging element of her work. As the first female staff photographer at The Washington Post, whi... See more
Sonny Rollins, the “saxophone colossus” who was widely considered America’s greatest living jazz musician and whose musical eloquence and inventiveness kept him at the creative forefront of jazz for six decades, died May 25 at his home in Woodstock, New Y... See more
