I probably have only a few days left being a person on this planet. I want more time sipping martinis at the Green Mill Jazz Club on Thursday nights. “I want more time with Jason,” she wrote. The column has drawn almost four and a half million readers online. Rosenthal’s bittersweet paean to her spouse of 26 years appeared as a Modern Love column in the online Style section of The Times on March 3 and in the Sunday newspaper section on March 5. The cause was ovarian cancer, which she learned she had in September 2015, her agent, Amy Rennert, said. Rosenthal also wrote 28 children’s picture books herself, as well as two memoirs (“Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal,” in 2016, and an alphabetized “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life,” in 2005) delivered TED Talks and NPR commentaries and produced short films and YouTube videos of what she called social experiments, with titles like “ATM: Always Trust Magic,” “The Money Tree” and “The Beckoning of Lovely.” But with the publication of her Modern Love essay, she found a new audience, as her Times obituary recounts:Īmy Krouse Rosenthal, a prolific children’s book author, memoirist and public speaker who, dying of cancer, found an extraordinarily large readership this month with a column in The New York Times titled “You May Want to Marry My Husband,” died on Monday at her home in Chicago. Green there just before the publication of his first book. In fact, she used her show on Chicago’s public radio, “Writers’ Block Party,” to amplify the voices of new writers, and she introduced Mr. Green became a star in the world of young-adult literature. Rosenthal was an established humorist and writer before Mr. Rosenthal died, the writers were also friends. The inspiration for pairing these pieces goes beyond shared themes: As you can see from the Twitter messages Mr. The Twitter messages that John Green posted about his friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal on the day she died.

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