Obituaries
Carlos Castaneda’s ex-wife believed that a key figure in his spiritual bestsellers — Mexican shaman Don Juan — was an extravagant fiction, drawn in part from conversations and activities the couple shared.
Jan. 30, 2012
Margaret Runyan Castaneda dies at 90; ex-wife of mystic author
Books
Culture: Best-selling chronicler of shaman Don Juan ‘left this world’ two months ago in Westwood, agent says.
June 19, 1998
California
A 45-year-old Rosemead man has been convicted on two counts of first-degree murder in the execution-style slayings of a Baldwin Park couple.
Jan. 6, 1985
A Pomona Superior Court jury convicted Francisco Gonzalez Carlos, 45, of Rosemead in the March, 1983, murder of Abel Castaneda, 32, and his wife, Mireya, 29, who were bludgeoned with table legs and shot to death in their Baldwin Park furniture factory.
Jan. 4, 1985
World & Nation
Carlos Castaneda, 70, the publisher emeritus of El Nuevo Herald in Miami who worked in the Spanish-language press for more than five decades, died Thursday in Lisbon of complications from leukemia.
Oct. 12, 2002
Entertainment & Arts
Academic books don’t usually become bestsellers, but in 1968, “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge” by anthropologist Carlos Castaneda was a sensation.
May 28, 2014
Carlos Castaneda, the 20th century’s own sorcerer’s apprentice, has been nearly invisible for 25 years.
Dec. 26, 1995
The death threats against Jorge G.
June 25, 1990
To someone who has never read Carlos Castaneda, the appearance of his new book, “The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of Don Juan,” is likely to stir as much curiosity about the reasons for his popularity as about the contents of the book.
Jan. 17, 1988