Schulz collaborator Bill Adler passes away

I’m a few months late on this – discovered it while doing a related websearch – but the New York Times reports the death of Bill Adler,  at 84. Mr Adler was the author of best-selling books (and plenty of other books, thanks to his rate of peppering the market with material; I remember quite enjoying his Kids’ Letters From Camp in my younger days.) Relevant to the Schulz fan, he was the compiler of Dear President Johnson, a book of children’s letters to the White House, for which Schulz provided about 30 illustrations.

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