Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Rose Laurens
French singer song-writer (I Dreamed a DreamDied on Monday April 30th 2018
Alice Provensen
American children's illustrator and writerDied on Monday April 30th 2018
Yevgeny Titarenko
Russian writerDied on Sunday April 29th 2018
Art Shay
American photographer and writerDied on Saturday April 28th 2018
Elvira Orphée
Argentine writerDied on Saturday April 28th 2018
Steven Marcus
American literary critic and scholarDied on Saturday April 28th 2018
Paul Junger Witt
American film and television producer (Dead Poets SocietyDied on Friday April 27th 2018
Charles Bohl
American screenwriter (Swimfan)Died on Wednesday April 25th 2018
Emma Smith
English novelistDied on Tuesday April 24th 2018
Belal Chowdhury
Bangladeshi poetDied on Tuesday April 24th 2018
Shiva Kumar Pradhan
Nepalese writerDied on Monday April 23rd 2018
Balantrapu Rajanikanta Rao
Indian writerDied on Sunday April 22nd 2018
Firmin Le Bourhis
French detective novelistDied on Saturday April 21st 2018
Pavel Šrut
Czech poetDied on Friday April 20th 2018
Arnold Eidslott
Norwegian poetDied on Friday April 20th 2018
Beverley Farmer
Australian novelist and short story writer Died on Thursday April 19th 2018
Anjum Jaunpuri
Indian poetDied on Wednesday April 18th 2018
Alan Lloyd
British writer and journalistDied on Tuesday April 17th 2018
Ronald Chesney
British comedy screenwriterDied on Monday April 16th 2018
Gerald Nachman
American journalist and authorDied on Monday April 16th 2018
Neil Shand
British comedy writerDied on Sunday April 15th 2018
Guy Lyon Playfair
British author and paranormal researcherDied on Sunday April 15th 2018
Jon Michelet
Norwegian author (Orion's Belt)Died on Sunday April 15th 2018
Patrick F. McManus
American writerDied on Friday April 13th 2018
Danarto
Indonesian writer and artistDied on Thursday April 12th 2018
Karen Dawisha
American political scientist and writerDied on Thursday April 12th 2018
Sergio Pitol
Mexican novelist and translatorDied on Thursday April 12th 2018
J. D. McClatchy
American poetDied on Wednesday April 11th 2018
Guy Playfair
British author and paranormal researcherDied on Wednesday April 11th 2018
Jean Marzollo
American children's authorDied on Wednesday April 11th 2018
Efraín Jara Idrovo
Ecuadorian writer and existencialist poetDied on Tuesday April 10th 2018
Gerd Honsik
Austrian writer and Holocaust denierDied on Monday April 9th 2018
Ira Philip
Bermudian writer and politicianDied on Monday April 9th 2018
Irina Tokmakova
Russian writerDied on Sunday April 8th 2018
Edla Van Steen
Brazilian writerDied on Saturday April 7th 2018
Dorothy Garlock
American authorDied on Saturday April 7th 2018
David Bonetti
American art criticDied on Friday April 6th 2018
Arrigo Petacco
Italian journalist and writerDied on Tuesday April 3rd 2018
Anna Chennault
Chinese-born writerDied on Tuesday April 3rd 2018
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik
Egyptian authorDied on Tuesday April 3rd 2018
Elizabeth Ebert
American poetDied on Monday April 2nd 2018
Anthony Lejeune
British writerDied on Saturday March 31st 2018
Anita Shreve
American author (The Pilot's Wife)Died on Friday March 30th 2018
Clément Rosset
French philosopher and writerDied on Thursday March 29th 2018
David Bischoff
American novelist and television writer (Star Trek: The Next Generation)Died on Wednesday March 28th 2018
Morten Piil
Danish film criticDied on Monday March 26th 2018
Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov
Russian Chechen writer and ethnographerDied on Sunday March 25th 2018
Alberto Ongaro
Italian journalist and writerDied on Saturday March 24th 2018
Philip Kerr
British crime novelist (Bernie Gunther series)Died on Saturday March 24th 2018
Jaakko Pakkasvirta
Finnish film director and screenwriterDied on Friday March 23rd 2018
Bob Ward
American space journalist and biographerDied on Thursday March 22nd 2018
Russell Freedman
American biographer and children's writerDied on Wednesday March 21st 2018
Karen Anderson
American writerDied on Wednesday March 21st 2018
Sushil Siddharth
Indian writerDied on Tuesday March 20th 2018
Ann-Charlotte Alverfors
Swedish authorDied on Tuesday March 20th 2018
Jürg Laederach
Swiss writerDied on Tuesday March 20th 2018
Michael Rutschky
German authorDied on Monday March 19th 2018
Kedarnath Singh
Indian poetDied on Monday March 19th 2018
Arnie Lerma
American writer and Scientology whistleblowerDied on Monday March 19th 2018
Clive Sinclair
British authorDied on Saturday March 17th 2018
Leonid Kvinikhidze
Russian screenwriter and film director (Mary PoppinsDied on Thursday March 15th 2018
Emily Nasrallah
Lebanese writerDied on Wednesday March 14th 2018
T. Berry Brazelton
American pediatrician and authorDied on Tuesday March 13th 2018
Mary Rosenblum
American authorDied on Monday March 12th 2018
Gerd Søraa
Norwegian politician and writerDied on Monday March 12th 2018
Kate Wilhelm
American Science Fiction author Died on Sunday March 11th 2018
Peter Temple
South African-born Australian writer (The Broken ShoreDied on Sunday March 11th 2018
Nagendra Sharma
Nepalese authorDied on Friday March 9th 2018
Sir Wilson Harris
Guyanese writerDied on Thursday March 8th 2018
Indra Bahadur Rai
Indian writerDied on Thursday March 8th 2018
Paul Magriel
American professional backgammon and poker player-authorDied on Wednesday March 7th 2018
Peter Nicholls
Australian writerDied on Wednesday March 7th 2018
Michele Hanson
British journalist (The Guardian) and writerDied on Monday March 5th 2018
Farhang Mehr
Iranian-born American Zoroastrian scholar and writerDied on Sunday March 4th 2018
Diana Der Hovanessian
American poetDied on Sunday March 4th 2018
Gordon Challis
New Zealand poetDied on Sunday March 4th 2018
Prafulla Das
Indian writerDied on Sunday March 4th 2018
Ivone Ramos
Cape Verdean writerDied on Sunday March 4th 2018
Emma Hannigan
Irish authorDied on Saturday March 3rd 2018
Mimmo Càndito
Italian writer and war correspondentDied on Saturday March 3rd 2018
Gillo Dorfles
Italian art criticDied on Friday March 2nd 2018
Paul De Meo
American film screenwriter and producer (TrancersDied on Friday March 2nd 2018
Nayani Krishnamurthy
Indian writerDied on Thursday March 1st 2018
Vanessa Lafaye
American novelistDied on Thursday March 1st 2018
Cynthia Heimel
American columnistDied on Tuesday February 27th 2018