Remembering Writers who died in 2006

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Late in life, F. Scott Fitzgerald asked for one of his own books at a Los Angeles bookshop and was told by a clerk, "Sorry, we don't stock him anymore." Then the proprietor piped up. "I thought he was dead."

San Francisco poet Gerald Nicosia told this story Saturday as he introduced the fifth annual "Writers Remembered," a celebration of authors who died the previous year.