Stanley Marsh 3, “legendary West Texas eccentric“.
This is Marsh’s most famous creation:
And Marsh spent the last years of his life entangled in civil suits and criminal accusations involving his alleged abuse of young men.
Texas Monthly has the best coverage I’ve been able to find so far. Nothing in the papers of record yet, and the DFW papers are just running the AP obit.
Daniel Keyes has also passed away at the age of 86. Keyes was most famous for the novella “Flowers for Algernon”, later expanded into a novel, turned into the movie “Charly”, and the subject of countless popular culture parodies.