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Louise DeSalvo

In a photo from Deborah DeSalvo, Louise DeSalvo in 2001. DeSalvo, a Virginia Woolf scholar and memoirist who mined her Italian-American heritage for her books and who once observed that life "is too short for even one bad meal," died on Oct. 31 in Montclair, N.J. She was 76. (Deborah DeSalvo via The New York Times) -- NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY OBIT DESALVO BY KATHARINE SEELYE FOR NOV. 12, 2018. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. --