Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Frank D. Gilroy
American playwright and screenwriter
Died on Saturday September 12th 2015
Nelson Peery
American political activist and author
Died on Sunday September 6th 2015
William H. Grier
American psychologist and author (Black Rage)
Died on Thursday September 3rd 2015
John Perreault
American art critic and poet
Died on Sunday September 6th 2015
Harald Norbelie
Swedish writer and journalist
Died on Sunday September 6th 2015
Tessa Ransford
British poet and founder of the Scottish Poetry Library
Died on Wednesday September 2nd 2015
Jean Louvet
Belgian playwright
Died on Saturday August 29th 2015
Oliver Sacks
British-born American neurologist and author (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat)
Died on Sunday August 30th 2015
Yosef Goldman
American book dealer and author
Died on Tuesday August 4th 2015
Antonio Larreta
Uruguayan writer and actor
Died on Wednesday August 19th 2015
Ken Barnes
British writer and record producer
Died on Tuesday August 4th 2015
Gordon Vette
New Zealand pilot and author
Died on Sunday August 9th 2015
Phyllis Grosskurth
Canadian biographer
Died on Sunday August 2nd 2015
David Nobbs
British comedy writer (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin). (death announced on this date)
Died on Sunday August 9th 2015
Svetlana Boym
Soviet-born American scholar and author
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Hiroyuki Agawa
Japanese writer (The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Jerzy Płażewski
Polish film historian and critic
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Ana Hatherly dead at age 86, writer, artist
Ana Hatherly, a Portuguese writer and artist,
died on August 5, 2015, at age 86. Born in Porto on May 8, 1929, she built a career that spanned writing, visual…
T. T. Cloete
South African Afrikaans poet and literary scholar
Died on Wednesday July 29th 2015
T.T. Cloete
South African Afrikaans poet and literary scholar
Died on Wednesday July 29th 2015
David Faber
Polish holocaust survivor and author (Because of Romek)
Died on Tuesday July 28th 2015
Don Oberdorfer
American journalist and author
Died on Thursday July 23rd 2015
James L. White
American screenwriter (Ray)
Died on Thursday July 23rd 2015
Garth George
New Zealand conservative Christian columnist and anti-gay activist
Died on Sunday July 26th 2015
Joe Williams
American film critic (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Died on Sunday July 26th 2015
Franco Scaglia
Italian writer and journalist
Died on Monday July 6th 2015
Sara Laing
American author and illustrator
Died on Monday July 6th 2015
Corsino Fortes
Cape Verdean writer and diplomat
Died on Friday July 24th 2015
Ingrid Sischy
South African born magazine editor and critic
Died on Friday July 24th 2015
Denis Avey
British World War II veteran and memoirist
Died on Thursday July 16th 2015
Gordon Stuart dead at age 91
Gordon Stuart, a Canadian-born Welsh portrait artist,
died on July 22, 2015. Born Gordon Thomas Stuart in Toronto on May 30, 1924, he studied at the Ontario College of Art…
Bashar Nawaz
Indian Urdu poet and songwriter
Died on Thursday July 9th 2015
Douglas S. Cook
American screenwriter (The Rock
Died on Sunday July 19th 2015
Bisheshar Pradeep
Pakistani-born Indian fiction and children's author
Died on Sunday July 19th 2015
Wolf Gremm
German film director and screenwriter
Died on Tuesday July 14th 2015
Gerhard Zwerenz
German writer and politician
Died on Monday July 13th 2015
Chenjerai Hove
Zimbabwean exiled author
Died on Sunday July 12th 2015
Bill Hunter
British political activist and author
Died on Thursday July 9th 2015
James Tate
Pulitzer Prize winning poet
Died on Wednesday July 8th 2015
Başar Sabuncu
Turkish film director and screenwriter (Şalvar Davası)
Died on Wednesday June 17th 2015
Ahmad Ghazi
Iranian Kurdish writer and translator
Died on Sunday June 7th 2015
Dave Godfrey
Canadian novelist and publisher
Died on Sunday June 21st 2015
Edward Greenfield
English music critic and broadcaster
Died on Wednesday July 1st 2015
Sergio Sollima
Italian director and screenwriter (Face to Face
Died on Wednesday July 1st 2015
Ben J. Wattenberg
American author and political commentator
Died on Sunday June 28th 2015
Ron Bisman
New Zealand harness racing journalist and author
Died on Friday June 26th 2015
Chris Thompson
American writer and producer (Laverne & Shirley
Died on Friday June 26th 2015