Stephen Covey, author of '7 Habits of Highly Effective People,' dies at 79
Stephen R. Covey;author of ``The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,'' has died at 79;three months after a serious bicycle accident.
Literary and cultural critic John Leonard, an early champion of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other authors, and so consumed and informed by books that Kurt Vonnegut once praised him as ``the smartest man who ever lived,'' has died at age 69, his stepdaughter said Thursday.