{"id":3324,"date":"2016-03-19T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2016-03-19T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T23:00:45","slug":"in-memoriam-john-mark-eberhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/03\/19\/in-memoriam-john-mark-eberhart\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: John Mark Eberhart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/03\/19\/in-memoriam-john-mark-eberhart\/eberhart\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3325\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/03\/Eberhart.jpg\" alt=\"Eberhart\" width=\"150\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>The literary world has lost another one: \u00a0<strong>John Mark Eberhart<\/strong>, 52, the former book review editor for\u00a0<em>The Kansas City Star<\/em> and the &#8220;Book Doctor&#8221; on KCUR.<\/p>\n<p>According to a KCUR obituary, Eberhart died today after a long fight with cancer.\u00a0Eberhart, who earned an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Master&#8217;s in English from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, was the book review editor at the <em>Star<\/em> from 2000 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many great and thoughtful book editors, Eberhart had his share of phone interviews and wrote about Updike a number of times. In fact, one of his pieces, &#8220;&#8216;Rabbit&#8217; in Retrospect,&#8221; will appear in a forthcoming collection of Updike articles and interviews, <em>Native Son: John Updike&#8217;s Pennsylvania Interviews\u2014<\/em>a collection assembled by James Plath that will be published this year by Lehigh University Press. Some wanted money for their reprinted work; Plath said Eberhart was delighted to have one of his pieces on Updike included in a hardcover volume and got the <em>Star<\/em> to grant permission at no cost. Writing and reading mattered to him the most.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/kcur.org\/post\/remembering-john-mark-eberhart#stream\/0\">KCUR obituary<\/a> says that he took pride in the number of times his byline appeared in the newspaper, and told journalism students in a 2012 article,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your writing is something that is going to develop over a long period of time\u2026.I&#8217;m still learning. Writing is tough and getting better at it takes time. Your progress tends to be incremental, not dramatic. Don&#8217;t worry about that, just persevere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eberhart was also a poet, whose work appeared in numerous literary magazines and in two collections, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Night-Watch-John-Mark-Eberhart\/dp\/0910479305\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1458428396&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=john+mark+eberhart\">Night Watch<\/a><\/em> (2005) and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Broken-Time-John-Mark-Eberhart\/dp\/0910479437\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1458428427&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=john+mark+eberhart\">Broken Time<\/a><\/em> (2008).<\/p>\n<p>We extend our deepest sympathies to his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The literary world has lost another one: \u00a0John Mark Eberhart, 52, the former book review editor for\u00a0The Kansas City Star and the &#8220;Book Doctor&#8221; on KCUR. According to a KCUR obituary, Eberhart died today after a long fight with cancer.\u00a0Eberhart, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/03\/19\/in-memoriam-john-mark-eberhart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3327,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}