The author suffered complications from surgery after a bad fall last week
Tomie dePaola, a beloved children’s book author and illustrator, has died. He was 85.after falling in his home in New Hampshire last week, his literary agent Doug Whiteman said, according to CNN.
Whiteman told the outlet that dePaola passed away at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and was sadly alone because of visitor restrictions put in place due to the“Due to the coronavirus and a quarantine at the hospital where he was being treated, Mr. dePaola was in isolation when he died,” said Whiteman, according to the outlet.
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