The New York Times reports that Nadine Gordimer died in South Africa yesterday (July 13): http://nyti.ms/1jIhVsc.
Here are links to available books by her that McCain Library owns and to criticism and interpretation of her work.
The Academy of Achievement in Washington, D.C. provides a succinct page about her, including an interview.
ASC-affiliated readers may wish to explore this article about her in the Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms.