TUCK EVERLASTING Author Natalie Babbitt Dies at 84

According to The Hollywood Reporter, beloved children's author Natalie Babbitt, perhaps best known for her best selling novel TUCK EVERLASTING, passed away at the age of 84 after battling cancer. Babbitt, who also was a talented illustrator, had been diagnosed with lung cancer just recently. Her husband, Samuel Fisher Babbitt shared the news that his wife had passed away at their home in Hamden, Conn., on Monday, October 31st.

TUCK EVERLASTING was adapted to a stage musical, officially opening at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre on April 26, 2016. The show was directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw.

Babbitt's best-selling and award-winning novel, Tuck Everlasting, was first published in 1975, and has remained in print ever since. Considered a modern classic, the beloved novel has been translated into 27 languages and has sold over four million copies in the United States since it was first published 40 years ago. Tuck Everlasting was named an American Library Association's Notable Book, and the winner of the Christopher Award, which honors media that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit."

Photo courtesy of Tuck Everlasting