Longtime literary editor Bill Hogan and his daughter, Mary Ann Hogan, loved books, spent their lives writing about books but never published a book of their own — until now..

When the writing isn’t finished

Nine days before my wife died, she forwarded a Brevity Blog post, “The Death of a Writer,” which asked:

“Who is going to deal with your literary legacy, and what do you want done?”

My wife wrote, “… interesting re what to do…”

She added a lifesaver emoji.

My wife, Mary Ann Hogan, journalist and teacher, died June 13, 2019, her “tango with lymphoma”…