Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Rajendra Yadav
Indian Hindi fiction writerDied on Monday October 28th 2013
Nevill Drury
English-born Australian author and publisherDied on Tuesday October 15th 2013
Daud Rahbar
Pakistani author and academicDied on Saturday October 5th 2013
Kōichi Iijima
Japanese poetDied on Monday October 14th 2013
Charles Castle
South African-born British television producer and authorDied on Saturday October 5th 2013
Álvaro Mutis
Colombian poetDied on Sunday September 22nd 2013
Don Nelson
American screenwriter (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)Died on Tuesday September 10th 2013
Gary Brandner
American horror author (The Howling)Died on Sunday September 22nd 2013
Shalom Yoran
Polish Jewish partisan and author (The Defiant)Died on Monday September 9th 2013
Kofi Awoonor
Ghanaian poet and diplomatDied on Saturday September 21st 2013
Alberto Bevilacqua
Italian writer and film directorDied on Monday September 9th 2013
Anthony Hinds
British screenwriter and producerDied on Monday September 30th 2013
Gilles Verlant
Belgian journalist and music criticDied on Friday September 20th 2013
Ilja Hurník
Czech composer and essayistDied on Saturday September 7th 2013
Toyoko Yamasaki
Japanese writerDied on Sunday September 29th 2013
Carolyn Cassady
American beat writerDied on Friday September 20th 2013
Joseph Granville
American financial writerDied on Saturday September 7th 2013
Robert Leeson
English children's writerDied on Sunday September 29th 2013
William Ungar
Polish-born American Holocaust survivor and memoiristDied on Thursday September 19th 2013
Ann C. Crispin
American science fiction author (The Han Solo TrilogyDied on Friday September 6th 2013
Marcella Hazan
Italian-born American cookbook authorDied on Sunday September 29th 2013
Robert Barnard
English crime writer and criticDied on Thursday September 19th 2013
Robert Farrar Capon
American Episcopal priest and authorDied on Thursday September 5th 2013
Turgut Özakman
Turkish authorDied on Saturday September 28th 2013
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
German literary criticDied on Wednesday September 18th 2013
Sushmita Banerjee
Indian writerDied on Thursday September 5th 2013
James Emanuel
American poet and academicDied on Saturday September 28th 2013
Juan Luis Panero
Spanish poetDied on Monday September 16th 2013
Janet Lembke
American writerDied on Tuesday September 3rd 2013
Carlo Castellaneta
Italian author and journalistDied on Saturday September 28th 2013
Avrum Stroll
American philosopher and authorDied on Thursday September 12th 2013
José Ramón Larraz
Spanish movie director (Vampyres) and comics writerDied on Tuesday September 3rd 2013
José Montoya
American poetDied on Wednesday September 25th 2013
Erich Loest
German author and screenwriter (Nikolaikirche)Died on Thursday September 12th 2013
Frederik Pohl
American science fiction author (Man PlusDied on Monday September 2nd 2013
Choi In-ho
South Korean writerDied on Wednesday September 25th 2013
Tom Vernon
British writer and broadcaster (Fat Man series)Died on Wednesday September 11th 2013
Albert Jacquard
French geneticist and essayistDied on Wednesday September 11th 2013
Christopher Koch
Australian novelist (The Year of Living Dangerously)Died on Monday September 23rd 2013
Keith Dunstan
Australian newspaper columnist and writerDied on Wednesday September 11th 2013
Severiano Álvarez
Spanish writerDied on Monday September 23rd 2013
Ramachandra Deva
Indian poetDied on Wednesday September 11th 2013
Luciano Vincenzoni
Italian screenwriter (For a Few Dollars MoreDied on Sunday September 22nd 2013
Marshall Berman
American philosopher and writerDied on Wednesday September 11th 2013
William Froug
American Emmy Award-winning television writerDied on Sunday August 25th 2013
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
Portuguese academic and authorDied on Friday August 9th 2013
Ciril Bergles
Slovene poetDied on Sunday August 25th 2013
John Rankine
British science fiction authorDied on Thursday August 8th 2013
Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo
Mexican writerDied on Saturday August 24th 2013
Barbara Mertz
American mystery writer (The Last Camel Died at Noon)Died on Thursday August 8th 2013
Ewa Petelska
Polish film director (Copernicus) and screenwriterDied on Tuesday August 20th 2013
John Kingsmill
Australian authorDied on Tuesday August 6th 2013
Sherko Bekas
Iraqi Kurdish poetDied on Sunday August 4th 2013
Dagon Taya
Burmese author and peace activistDied on Monday August 19th 2013
Iryna Zhylenko
Ukrainian poetDied on Saturday August 3rd 2013
Mirko Kovač
Montenegrin writerDied on Monday August 19th 2013
Patricia Anthony
American science fiction authorDied on Friday August 2nd 2013
Albert Murray
American literary and jazz criticDied on Sunday August 18th 2013
John Hollander
American poetDied on Saturday August 17th 2013
Sławomir Mrożek
Polish playwrightDied on Thursday August 15th 2013
Jun Sadogawa
Japanese manga author (Muteki Kanban Musume)Died on Tuesday August 13th 2013
Romana Kryzanowska
American Pilates instructor and authorDied on Friday August 30th 2013
Damon Intrabartolo
American playwright (Bare: A Pop Opera) and orchestrator (Superman ReturnsDied on Tuesday August 13th 2013
Seamus Heaney
Irish poetDied on Friday August 30th 2013
Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov
Russian writer and journalist Died on Monday August 12th 2013
Alfredo Betancourt
Salvadoran writerDied on Friday August 30th 2013
Maung Wuntha
Burmese writer and activistDied on Sunday August 11th 2013
Rafael Díaz Ycaza
Ecuadorian writerDied on Wednesday August 28th 2013
Penelope Casas
American food authorDied on Sunday August 11th 2013
Chen Liting
Chinese playwright and film directorDied on Tuesday August 27th 2013
Amy Wallace
American writerDied on Saturday August 10th 2013
Ryuchi Matsuda
Japanese martial arts writerDied on Wednesday July 24th 2013
Pauline Clarke
English children's authorDied on Tuesday July 23rd 2013
Sundri Uttamchandani
Indian writerDied on Monday July 8th 2013
Ugo Riccarelli
Italian novelistDied on Sunday July 21st 2013
Denys de La Patellière
French film director (Marco the Magnificent) and novelistDied on Sunday July 21st 2013
Curtis Harnack
American nonfiction authorDied on Friday July 5th 2013
Helen Thomas
American journalist and authorDied on Saturday July 20th 2013
Alice Masak French
Canadian Inuvialuit authorDied on Friday July 5th 2013
Mansour Eid
Lebanese writerDied on Wednesday July 17th 2013
Pamela Ropner
British authorDied on Thursday July 4th 2013
Vincenzo Cerami
Italian screenwriter (Life Is Beautiful)Died on Wednesday July 17th 2013
Madan Mohan Mishra
Nepalese authorDied on Thursday July 4th 2013
Jon Manchip White
Welsh–born American novellist and screenwriterDied on Wednesday July 31st 2013
Snoo Wilson
English playwright and screenwriterDied on Wednesday July 3rd 2013
Jean Madiran
French nationalist writerDied on Wednesday July 31st 2013
Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey
British nobleman and authorDied on Saturday July 13th 2013
Ryan Davis
American video game journalist and critic (GameSpot)Died on Wednesday July 3rd 2013
John Graves
American author (Goodbye to a River)Died on Wednesday July 31st 2013
Takako Takahashi
Japanese novelist and French language translatorDied on Friday July 12th 2013
Francis Ray
American authorDied on Tuesday July 2nd 2013