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Line 34: ===1980s=== In 1984 Longden met the partially-sighted novelist [[Aileen Armitage]] at a writers' conference. At the conference they discussed writing a television script together about disability, with Longden's wife Diana, at the heart of the story. Armitage and Diana became devoted friends, notwithstanding the evident attraction ~~Longden~~between Deric and Aileen ~~felt for one another~~; indeed, Diana hoped that they would marry after her death. Diana Longden died in 1985. Line 41: ===1990s=== Longden and Armitage married in 1990.<ref>https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=287579415:9422&d=bmd_1685449923 {{Bare URL inline\|date=August 2024}}</ref> Longden published a second book, ''Lost For Words'', in 1991. This book focusses on Longden's eccentric mother Annie and her life as an elderly woman living alone, grappling with the effects of strokes and her decline into old age. Line 58: ===2010s=== Longden's ~~published, what was to be his final~~last book, ''TailPieces''~~, in~~ (2012), is a special personal collection of his favourite short stories and articles on cats. ==Later life and death== Line 65: Longden was ill during the last decade of his life. He suffered a series of [[stroke\|ministrokes]] which meant he was unable to write. He also suffered from [[epilepsy]] and for 18 months was unable to drive as a result of this. He gradually withdrew from public life. In 2007 he had an abdominal aortic [[aneurysm]] and his life was saved by surgery.<ref>https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/best-selling-huddersfield-author-deric-longden-4937107 {{Bare URL inline\|date=August 2024}}</ref> In 2012 he lost his voice for about eight months due to oesophagus complications. An injection into his vocal chords allowed him to speak again.<ref>https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/best-selling-huddersfield-author-deric-longden-4937107 {{Bare URL inline\|date=August 2024}}</ref> On 19 November 2012, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.<ref>https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/best-selling-huddersfield-author-deric-longden-4937107 {{Bare URL inline\|date=August 2024}}</ref> On 23 June 2013, he died of [[Esophageal cancer\|cancer of the oesophagus]], aged 76.<ref name=obit>{{cite news\|last=Kilcommons\|first=Denis\|title=Obituary:Deric Longden\|url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-west-yorkshire-news/2013/06/25/obituary-deric-longden-86081-33521405/\|accessdate=25 June 2013\|newspaper=Huddersfield Daily Examiner\|date=25 June 2013}}</ref> ==Books== Line 94: [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:2013 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from esophageal cancer in England]] ~~[[Category:Deaths from esophageal cancer]]~~ [[Category:English autobiographers]] [[Category:English screenwriters]] Line 101 ⟶ 100: [[Category:People from Chesterfield, Derbyshire]] [[Category:English male non-fiction writers]] [[Category:~~People~~Writers from Huddersfield]]