Peter Taylor, 77, a Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist whose stories poignantly chronicled the slow disappearance of the Southern aristocracy, died of pneumonia Wednesday night at the University of Virginia Hospital at Charlottesville, Va. He had suffered a series of strokes over the last few years. He won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for the novel "A Summons to Memphis," about a man called home by his sisters to stop their widowed father from remarrying. It was Taylor's first novel in nearly 40 years. Before that, Taylor was known as a short-story writer whose collections never sold more than a few thousand copies. Taylor's latest novel, "In The Tennessee Country," was praised by critics
when it was published in September.
Arthur Everett, 80, a writer and reporter who earned a national reputation during four decades working for The Associated Press, died Wednesday in New York. He covered trials from Alger Hiss to the Rosenbergs to Lt. William Calley and news from the Kennedy assassination to the "Son of Sam" murders.