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When this journalist started collecting strangers’ stories about race, she relied on a trusted intermediary: the United States Postal Service.

In books like “All We’re Meant to Be” and “Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?” she used the Bible to challenge beliefs that women were inferior to men and that homosexuality was a sin.

He helped found an avant-garde movement fusing art and prose and was outspoken against the invasion of Ukraine. He died after he was hit by a car in Moscow.

Chandler, best remembered for his hard-boiled detective novels, also wrote poetry. The poem, “Requiem,” was among papers his family donated to the University of Oxford in the 1980s.

Acclaimed as one of America’s greatest living writers, she blended deeply personal material with themes of mythology and nature.