Editing Tom Clancy (section)

== Death ==
Clancy died of [[heart failure]] on October 1, 2013,<ref name="cbsnews"/> at [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]], near his Baltimore home. John D. Gresham,<!-- Gresham is correct; John Grisham is a different writer. --> a co-author and researcher with Clancy on several books, said Clancy had been suffering heart problems for some time prior: "Five or six years ago Tom suffered a heart attack and he went through bypass surgery. It wasn't that he had another heart attack, his heart just wore out."<ref name=USNI>{{cite web |title=Tom Clancy Dies at 66 |url=http://news.usni.org/2013/10/02/tom-clancy-dies-66 |publisher=[[US Naval Institute]] |access-date=October 10, 2013 |date=October 3, 2013}}</ref>

The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' quoted [[Pulitzer Prize]]–winning film critic and author [[Stephen Hunter]] as saying, "When he published ''The Hunt for Red October'', he redefined and expanded the genre, and as a consequence of that, many people were able to publish such books who had previously been unable to do so."<ref name="chicago Tribune obit">{{cite news |title=Tom Clancy, author, dead at 66 |date=October 2, 2013 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tom-clancy-dead-20131002,0,2346736.story}}</ref>

On March 31, 2014, the [[Baltimore Orioles|Orioles]] honored Clancy with a video tribute during their home opener, and the team wore a tribute patch on their jerseys through the season.<ref name=tribute>{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Dean Jr. |title=Orioles announce Opening Day plans, will wear patch for Tom Clancy in 2014 |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/bal-orioles-announce-opening-day-plans-will-wear-patch-for-tom-clancy-in-2014-20140326,0,5058208.story |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140327043933/http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/bal-orioles-announce-opening-day-plans-will-wear-patch-for-tom-clancy-in-2014-20140326,0,5058208.story |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 27, 2014 |work=The Baltimore Sun |access-date=March 31, 2014 }}</ref>