One of my favorite authors, Gabriel García Márquez, will end his writing career due to dementia.  At eighty-five, he has produced prolifically since 1947.  He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, three years prior to the publication of my favorite (and the best-known) of his works: Love in the Time of Cholera.  The announcement by USA Today is somewhat uncommon - it seems that most authors simply fade away.  To me, it seems like a stoic announcement by García Márquez that he will ... View Post