"Omnilingual" by H. Beam Piper is one of the best science fiction stories I have ever read.

And it wasn't included in very many anthologies that I could get my hands on -- I probably own 3 or 4 that have "A Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G. Weinbaum, but only one with "Omnilingual".

But, it's available for FREE! to download at ManyBooks.net.

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Thomas M. Disch committed suicide in his apartment.

Wikipedia article on Disch

Excerpts from a 2001 Locus interview

Alan Bostick's blog entry on Disch's death

I'm not finding anything from any news sites yet.

Edit:
Obituary on Locus Magazine website

Cory Doctorow's obit on BoingBoing (Thank you, Twitch!)