User:Biggins/Draft:Diana Hacker

Diana Hacker (July 7, 1942 – January 12, 2004) was an English professor and author. She died of cancer at the age of 61 in Washington, D.C.

Substantive references:

• WaPo obit
• LA Times obit
• NCTE Diana Hacker awards page
• MacMillan page for A Pocket Style Manual (8th Edition)
• Bedford/St. Martin's Hacker Handbooks
• Her VIAF page (which pulls from a bunch of sources, but best appears to be the LOC?)

Relevant Wikipedia articles:

• The Bedford Handbook
• Wikipedia Article Wizard
• Wikipedia Help: Your first article
• Wikipedia: Drafts

Todo:

• Write more stuff (obvs)
• Find birthdate
• Add infobox (see James Baldwin example below)
• Clean up the Bedford Handbook page (wtf is up with the TOC from the book being the whole article??)

James Baldwin
Baldwin in 1969
Born	(1924-08-02)August 2, 1924 Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Died	December 1, 1987(1987-12-01) (aged 63) Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Nationality	American
Occupations	novelist playwright activist
Years active	1947–1985
Notable work	Go Tell It on the Mountain Giovanni's Room Notes of a Native Son

And just for my own edification, this rabbit hole started with this tweet from @ButNotTheCity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯