Author Patricia Monaghan passed on November 10. She wrote many books, The Goddess Path being perhaps the most well-known.
http://www.patricia-monaghan.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Monaghan says:
Patricia Monaghan, Ph.D., (born 15 February 1946-died 10 November, 2012) [was] one of the pioneers of the contemporary women's spirituality movement.[1] She is the author of more than 15 books of poetry and nonfiction, including the two volume Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines. She live[d] in Black Earth, Wisconsin (although she [held] dual Irish and American citizenship), where she and her husband Michael McDermott tend[ed] a vineyard and large organic garden. ... a wine expert,[2] and author of Wineries of Minnesota and Wisconsin, she [was] a founder of and Senior Fellow at The Black Earth Institute,[3] connecting earth, spirit and society through the arts.