With a month to go in 2009, The Boston Globe starts to look back at the year that closes the first decade of the 21st Century.

Notable deaths of 2009 (click title to entry - thank you)



Harvard buys Updike archive (click here)
Collection includes late writer’s reviews, letters, manuscripts
By Tracy Jan
Globe Staff / October 7, 2009
...The university will announce today that Houghton Library, Harvard’s primary repository for rare books and manuscripts, will house the John Updike Archive, making the library the center for studies on the life and work of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and prolific novelist, poet, and critic. College officials would not disclose how much Harvard paid to acquire the papers of Updike, who died in January at 76....