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Isabel Bayley, literary trustee for the estate of Katherine Anne Porter since 1983, died July 17, 1993, in Toronto, Canada. Mrs. Bayley met and became friends with Katherine Anne Porter in 1948 at a writers' seminar Porter was teaching in Kansas, and they remained friends until Porter's death. Bayley selected and edited Letters of Katherine Anne Porter, published by The Atlantic Monthly Press in 1990. She is survived by her husband, W. Hewlitt Bayley.

Cleanth Brooks, eminent literary critic, Gray Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric at Yale University, and long-time friend of Katherine Anne Porter, died May 10, 1994, at his home in New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Brooks, who was considered a founder of the New Criticism movement, was the author of many books, among which are Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939), The Well Wrought Urn (1947), William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country (1963), and The Language of the American South (1985). With Robert Penn Warren he wrote Understanding Poetry (1938) and Modern Rhetoric (1950). A Rhodes Scholar, he was cultural attache at the United States Embassy in London and Jefferson Lecturer at the Library of Congress. He was married to Edith Amy (Tinkum) Blanchard, who died in 1986. Mr. Brooks was 87 at the time of his death.

Seymour Lawrence, Katherine Anne Porter's editor and friend who guided Ship of Fools through its final years of completion, died January 4, 1994, in Englewood, Florida. Lawrence was an independent book publisher associated at one time or another with Atlantic-Little, Brown, Dell, E. P. Dutton, and Houghton Mifflin. In addition to Porter, Lawrence published Thomas Berger, Richard Brautigan, J. P. Donleavy, Jim Harrison, William Saroyan, Kurt Vonnegut, and Frank Conroy.