
Stuart M. Kaminsky
The following was posted by Stuart Kaminsky’s daughter, Natasha Kaminsky, on Facebook over the weekend:
I’m posting with great sadness. My father passed away peacefully October 9, 2009. My mother, Enid Perll, and I, encourage you to donate to a charity of your choice in his name. He also strongly supported the United Negro College Fund, Hospice Care, Congregation Shaare Zedek (St. Louis, Mo) and Congregation Temple Beth Shalom (Sarasota, Fl). I will be checking his facebook consistently for months to come and answering questions to the best of my ability. Thank you for your well wishes and prayers.
This is truly sad news. Former SFW President and current Vice President, Pat Gray, has eloquently summed up the feeling of so many of our members with the following:
“Stuart has a lot of great friends in this town.
He was our speaker more than once, and a friend to many of us.
He did a tremendous amount of work to promote and support local writers at all levels.
He was the closest thing Sarasota had to a John D. McDonald in quite a few years.
He was a fine man, period, but in the literary world of Southwest Florida, he was a towering figure, a truly great man.”
The following statement was released by the Mystery Writers of America:
“MWA is deeply saddened by the loss of Stuart Kaminsky, Edgar award winner, past MWA president, and 2006 MWA Grand Master. Stuart made numerous contributions to the mystery genre and offered unselfish support to fellow writers. He will be missed by those of us whose lives he has touched.”
Other Links on Stuart Kaminsky:
Sarasota Herald Tribune Obituary
Article published Apr 30, 2006- Sarasota Herald Tribune
Kaminsky on Wikipedia
Stuart’s literary work is immense. We have lost not only a great friend, but the kind of writer that comes along only once in a generation.
SFW offers its deepest sympathy to the Kaminsky family.