Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Jacques De Decker
Belgian writer and author
Died on Tuesday April 14th 2020
Saul Turteltaub
American comedy writer and producer
Died on Monday April 13th 2020
Gus Rodríguez
Mexican writer
Died on Monday April 13th 2020
Iris M. Zavala
Puerto Rican author
Died on Sunday April 12th 2020
Joel Shatzky
American author
Died on Sunday April 12th 2020
Cheryl Wall
American literary critic
Died on Sunday April 12th 2020
William R. Polk
American foreign policy consultant and author
Died on Sunday April 12th 2020
Giuseppe Aldo Rossi
Italian screenwriter (Giallo club. Invito al poliziesco)
Died on Sunday April 12th 2020
Marguerite Lescop
Canadian writer
Died on Thursday April 9th 2020
Lucien Schmitthäusler
French writer
Died on Thursday April 9th 2020
Bernard Epin
French writer and literary critic
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2020
Arthur Whistler
American ethnobotanist and author
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2020
Patricia Bosworth
American actress (The Nun's Story) and author
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2020
Tim Robinson
English writer and cartographer
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2020
Rodrigo Pesántez Rodas
Ecuadorian writer and poet
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2020
Rao Pingru
Chinese comic book author (Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China)
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2020
Marcel Moreau
Belgian writer
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2020
Pentti Linkola
Finnish deep ecologist and writer
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2020
Jean Little
Taiwanese-born Canadian writer (Mine for Keeps
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2020
Josep Maria Benet i Jornet
Spanish playwright and screenwriter
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2020
Rik Kuethe
Dutch writer and journalist (Elsevier (magazine))
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
Loring Mandel
American playwright and screenwriter
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
William Wolf
American author and theater critic
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
Raffaele Masto
Italian writer
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
William B. Helmreich
American sociologist and writer
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
Yuri Bondarev
Russian writer and screenwriter (Liberation)
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
Abdul Qadir Junejo
Pakistani novelist and playwright
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
Tomie dePaola
American writer
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
Amankhan Alimuly
Kazakh poet
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
Leonid Zorin
Russian playwright
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
Michel Chodkiewicz
French author
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
Bruce Dawe
Australian poet
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
May Lorna O’Brien
Australian educator and author
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
Johan van Dorsten
Dutch writer
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2020
Joe Baltake
American film critic (Sacramento Bee
Died on Sunday March 29th 2020
Richard Reeves
American writer
Died on Thursday March 26th 2020
Ilya Rubinstein
Russian scriptwriter
Died on Wednesday March 25th 2020
Ilyua Rubinstein
Russian scriptwriter
Died on Wednesday March 25th 2020
Maurice Berger
American cultural historian and art critic
Died on Tuesday March 24th 2020
Terrence McNally
American playwright (Ragtime
Died on Tuesday March 24th 2020
E. Harikumar
Indian novelist
Died on Tuesday March 24th 2020
Raymond Renard
Belgian writer and linguist
Died on Tuesday March 24th 2020
Tarcisio Stramare
Italian biblist and writer
Died on Tuesday March 24th 2020
Susham Bedi
Indian writer and academic
Died on Monday March 23rd 2020
Tarciso Stramare
Italian biblist and writer
Died on Monday March 23rd 2020
Alberto Arbasino
Italian writer
Died on Monday March 23rd 2020
Burhanuddin Khan Jahangir
Bangladeshi academic and writer
Died on Monday March 23rd 2020
Eldred D. Jones
Sierra Leonean literary critic
Died on Sunday March 22nd 2020
Petru Bogatu
Moldovan journalist and writer
Died on Sunday March 22nd 2020
Robert Langbaum
American author
Died on Saturday March 21st 2020
Cengiz Bektaş
Turkish architect and writer
Died on Saturday March 21st 2020
Shapi Kaziev
Russian writer
Died on Friday March 20th 2020
Ashraf Siddiqui
Bangladeshi poet
Died on Thursday March 19th 2020
Michael Broadbent
British wine critic and writer
Died on Thursday March 19th 2020
Eduard Limonov
Russian writer
Died on Tuesday March 17th 2020
Patil Puttappa
Indian writer and journalist
Died on Monday March 16th 2020
Affonso Arinos de Mello Franco
Brazilian writer
Died on Sunday March 15th 2020
Dorothy Maclean
Canadian writer and educator
Died on Sunday March 15th 2020
Moon Deoksu
South Korean poet
Died on Sunday March 15th 2020
Molly Brodak
American poet
Died on Sunday March 15th 2020
Puthussery Ramachandran
Indian poet
Died on Saturday March 14th 2020
Giwi Margwelaschwili
German-Georgian writer and philosopher
Died on Friday March 13th 2020
Menahem Ben
Israeli poet
Died on Friday March 13th 2020
Hyun Kil-un
South Korean writer
Died on Wednesday March 11th 2020
Minoru Betsuyaku
Japanese writer
Died on Tuesday March 10th 2020
Earl Pomerantz
Canadian-born American television writer and producer (Major Dad)
Died on Monday March 9th 2020
José Jiménez Lozano
Spanish writer
Died on Monday March 9th 2020
Mart Crowley
American playwright (The Boys in the Band)
Died on Monday March 9th 2020
Luis Racionero
Spanish writer
Died on Sunday March 8th 2020
Michel Cullin
French diplomat and writer
Died on Saturday March 7th 2020
Jean-Luc Seigle
French dramatist and screenwriter (The Carriers Are Waiting)
Died on Friday March 6th 2020
Alejandro Sieveking
Chilean playwright and theatre director
Died on Friday March 6th 2020
Ann Grifalconi
American author and illustrator
Died on Friday March 6th 2020
Antonio Nardini
Italian historian and author
Died on Thursday March 5th 2020
Elizabeth Nelson Adams
American artist and poet
Died on Wednesday March 4th 2020
Laura Caldwell
American novelist and lawyer
Died on Wednesday March 4th 2020
Freimut Duve
German politician and author
Died on Wednesday March 4th 2020
Stratis Haviaras
Greek-American writer and poet
Died on Wednesday March 4th 2020
James Lipton
American writer and film academic
Died on Monday March 2nd 2020
Ernesto Cardenal
Nicaraguan poet and priest
Died on Sunday March 1st 2020
Fiona MacCarthy
English journalist and biographer
Died on Sunday March 1st 2020
Clinton Marius
South African writer and performer
Died on Saturday February 29th 2020
Colin S. Gray
British-American geopolitics writer
Died on Friday February 28th 2020
Betsy Byars
American author
Died on Friday February 28th 2020
Jamie Gilson
American author
Died on Friday February 28th 2020
Camila María Concepción
American screenwriter and transgender rights activist
Died on Friday February 28th 2020
Bernard Pingaud
French writer
Died on Friday February 28th 2020
Linda Wolfe
American journalist and author (Wasted: The Preppie Murder)
Died on Friday February 28th 2020
Henry J. Abraham
American scholar and writer
Died on Thursday February 27th 2020
Yoshikichi Furui
Japanese author and translator
Died on Thursday February 27th 2020
Annie Riis
Norwegian writer
Died on Thursday February 27th 2020
Clive Cussler
American adventure novelist (Raise the Titanic!
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2020
István Csukás
Hungarian poet and author
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2020