NPR books editor Petra Mayer died Saturday at age 46, NPR
reported. Mayer was a popular editor on NPR's Culture desk,
delighting readers and listeners with her outpouring of
knowledge of cats, comics and science fiction, as well as her on-
site reporting at Comic-Con.
Mayer died at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Springs, Maryland,
of what's believed to be a pulmonary embolism, Nancy Barnes,
NPR's senior vice president for news, said in an email to staff.
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