James Earl Jones, Distinguished Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies at 93

I had known Death’s voice to be a howling hot wind across the parched desert. A wet, hacking cough in the night. The urgent cry of a starving baby. I had never for one moment imagined his voice might also be the stroke of velvet in the ever-encroaching darkness.

Zane heard voices, Vin realized. Right before he died, he seemed to be talking to something.

After his death in 2009, Hughes’s sons found hundreds of notebooks and digital files of screenplays not made, novels and short stories never published.

Johnson stood there for about thirty-five minutes. Then, at 1:20, O’Donnell appeared at the door and crossed the room to Lyndon Johnson, and seeing the stricken “face of Kenny O’Donnell who loved him so much,” Lady Bird knew. “He’s gone,” O’Donnell said, to the thirty-sixth President of the United States.