![]() Other works included a trilogy set in fictional Washburn, Ohio the memoir “The Family Heart” and the cookbook “A Southern Thanksgiving.”īorn Robb Reavill Forman, she attended Louisiana State University, where she met her future husband, the author and historian Charles Burgess Dew. Her own record of achievement began with “Dale Loves Sophie to Death,” winner in 1982 of the National Book Award (then called the American Book Award) for best debut fiction. ![]() She was the granddaughter of the author-critic John Crowe Ransom and the goddaughter of the poet-novelist Robert Penn Warren. ![]() She was 73 and the cause of death was complications from endocarditis.ĭew was a native of Mount Vernon, Ohio, who grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while spending summers back in Ohio. ![]() Little, Brown and Company announced this week that Dew died May 22 at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. NEW YORK (AP) - Robb Forman Dew, a prize-winning fiction writer who drew upon her small-town Ohio background for such novels as “Dale Loves Sophie to Death” and “The Evidence Against Her,” has died. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]()
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