Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Clifford Nass
American academic and author (The Media Equation)Died on Saturday November 2nd 2013
Rune T. Kidde
Danish writerDied on Monday October 21st 2013
Edmund Niziurski
Polish authorDied on Wednesday October 9th 2013
William Morris
British Church of Scotland minister and authorDied on Thursday October 31st 2013
Yukichi Amano
Japanese columnistDied on Sunday October 20th 2013
Stanley Kauffmann
American authorDied on Wednesday October 9th 2013
Jagadish Ghimire
Nepalese writer and development workerDied on Thursday October 31st 2013
Mikihiko Renjō
Japanese novelistDied on Saturday October 19th 2013
Khady Sylla
Senegalese writerDied on Tuesday October 8th 2013
Gérard de Villiers
French thriller writer (Son Altesse Sérénissime)Died on Thursday October 31st 2013
Norman Geras
British political theorist and authorDied on Friday October 18th 2013
Akong Rinpoche
Tibetan-born British Buddhist teacher and authorDied on Tuesday October 8th 2013
J. R. Salamanca
American author and academicDied on Wednesday October 30th 2013
Ravuri Bharadhwaja
Indian Telugu language writerDied on Friday October 18th 2013
Joanna Chmielewska
Polish novelist and screenwriterDied on Monday October 7th 2013
Michael Palmer
American novelistDied on Wednesday October 30th 2013
Govind Purushottam Deshpande
Indian playwright and academicDied on Wednesday October 16th 2013
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
Luigi Magni
Italian screenwriter and film directorDied on Sunday October 27th 2013
Max Cahner
Spanish Catalan politician and writerDied on Monday October 14th 2013
Jonathan Kaufer
American film and television writer and directorDied on Wednesday October 2nd 2013
Bill Gulick
American author and historianDied on Friday October 25th 2013
Mann Rubin
American screenwriter (The First Deadly SinDied on Saturday October 12th 2013
Shun Akiyama
Japanese literary criticDied on Wednesday October 2nd 2013
Arthur Danto
American philosopher and art criticDied on Friday October 25th 2013
Tom Clancy
American author (The Hunt for Red OctoberDied on Tuesday October 1st 2013
Arthur Maling
American authorDied on Thursday October 24th 2013
Oscar Hijuelos
American novelist (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love)Died on Saturday October 12th 2013
Bhau Kalchuri
Indian poet and spiritualistDied on Wednesday October 23rd 2013
William Harrison
American author and screenwriter (Rollerball)Died on Tuesday October 22nd 2013
Joseph Fielding McConkie
American academic and authorDied on Thursday October 10th 2013
Oscar Yanes
Venezuelan authorDied on Monday October 21st 2013
Jay Conrad Levinson
American business writerDied on Thursday October 10th 2013
Frank Lima
American poetDied on Monday October 21st 2013
Chopper Read
Australian crime figure and authorDied on Wednesday October 9th 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
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
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
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