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Authors Online has just been told of the sad death of F Winston Pate who died whilst on holiday last October. Winston was the author of Serenity, a well crafted novel about alcoholism and the pursuit of human happiness.

Winston, who was born in the southern USA, was a naturalised British citizen who had lived in this country for the past 30 years. A normally fit and healthy man, he owned and operated a small gymnasium in his home town of Taunton. He was apparently away on a visit to Wales when he had a massive heart attack and died. He had no relatives in the UK and only a brother in the US, whom he had not been in touch with for some time. It therefore took a while for friends to discover his death and make the necessary funeral arrangements. We were only informed of his death in the last week.

Winston was a larger than life character, who had little time for convention and our editor well remembers turning heads at an excellent day out at the 2004 London Book Fair, as he accompanied a bejewelled and tattooed Winston, dressed for a motor cycle meeting, amongst the stands of suited and booted literary world representatives.

With a passion for literature and writing Winston crafted his masterpiece 'Serenity' with great pride. Undoubtedly one of the best pieces of literature published by Authors Online we unfortunately can only lament that he never finished the sequel. We'll mourn the loss of great character prematurely taken from us.