Dead People is a book of eulogies, written for an eclectic assortment of
famous and interesting people who died in recent years. The essays were
written by Stefany Anne Golberg and 2013 Whiting Award winner Morgan
Meis. The book covers twenty-eight dead people in all, including
intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Christopher Hitchens and Eric Hobsbawn;
musicians like Sun Ra, MCA (Beastie Boys) and Kurt Cobain; writers like
David Foster Wallace, John Updike and Tom Clancy; artists like Thomas
Kinkade and Robert Rauschenberg; and controversial political figures
like Osama bin Laden and Mikhail Kalashnikov.