Faith McNulty Author
Faith McNulty, 86, author of the 1980 bestseller "The Burning Bed," which focused national attention on domestic violence, died April 10 at her farm in South Kingstown, R.I. No cause of death was reported.
Ms. McNulty also wrote for the "Talk of the Town" section in the New Yorker magazine for four decades and wrote wildlife and children's books, including "How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World."
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"The Burning Bed" told the story of Francine Hughes, an abused woman who killed her husband by setting him afire as he slept and who was acquitted on self-defense. The book became a TV movie in 1984 and starred Farrah Fawcett.
Ms. McNulty, a native of New York, began her news career as a copy girl at the New York Daily News. She also was a reporter and researcher for Life magazine and wrote for Audubon magazine.
Ehud Manor Israeli Songwriter
Ehud Manor, 64, the Israeli prize-winning songwriter and poet, died April 12 after a heart attack, it was reported from Jerusalem.
Mr. Manor -- an Israel Prize laureate -- was one of Israel's most popular songwriters and poets. He often wrote songs about Israel, including "I Have No Other Country," the words of which became part of the national conscience, played at Independence Day celebrations and Memorial Day services.
In an interview last week with Israel Army Radio, Mr. Manor said he thought the song he wrote about his younger brother, Yehuda, killed in 1968 in a battle with Egyptian troops at the Suez Canal, brought him an honorary degree from Tel Aviv's Bar-Ilan University.
"That is why I always feel when I get a prize or an honor that it is not me receiving it but my brother, or at least both of us together," Mr. Manor said, adding that he can only express his emotions through song-writing. "I experienced much anxiety in my life, and my way of dealing with it is to write. Once I was ashamed of it, not anymore."
J. Sherrard Rice Civil Rights Minister
J. Sherrard Rice, 87, a minister who helped improve race relations in South Carolina, died April 9 in Columbia, S.C. He had dementia.
A sermon he delivered in 1960, "A Pastor Speaks From His Heart," detailed the changes in the South as black southerners demanded an end to segregation and an equal place in society.
"If we are honest with history, I think we would admit that the Christian gospel is at the heart of much of this change," Mr. Rice, who was white, told those gathered in his historic church in Columbia.
He grew up in Richmond, graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina and received a master's of divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Roy Henry Williams Photographer
Roy Henry Williams, 73, a longtime Oakland Tribune photographer who was a member of the photo team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, died April 6 of a heart attack in Hayward, Calif.
One of his photos, showing a bystander rescuing a woman from a collapsed building, was among those cited when the Tribune won the Pulitzer. He also was honored for a 1979 photo taken in Oakland during burial services for victims of the Jonestown massacre.
