William Zinsser
American writer
Died on Tuesday May 12th 2015
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
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Jim Morrison
American singer, songwriter and poet best remembered as the lead singer of The Doors
Died on Saturday July 3rd 1971
José María Castiñeira de Dios
Argentine poet
Died on Saturday May 2nd 2015
Alexis Márquez Rodríguez
Venezuelan writer
Died on Sunday May 10th 2015
Ninad Bedekar
Indian historian and writer
Died on Sunday May 10th 2015
Martin Nag
Norwegian writer
Died on Friday May 8th 2015
William Bast
American screenwriter and author
Died on Monday May 4th 2015
Jobst Brandt
American author and cyclist
Died on Tuesday May 5th 2015
Peter Dobkin Hall
American author and historian
Died on Thursday April 30th 2015
Joshua Ozersky
American food writer
Died on Monday May 4th 2015
Norman Thaddeus Vane
American screenwriter and film director (Frightmare)
Died on Saturday May 2nd 2015
Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky
Russian performance poet
Died on Saturday May 2nd 2015
Nan Inger Östman
Swedish children's book author
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2015
Michael Blake
American screenwriter
Died on Saturday May 2nd 2015
Ruth Rendell
English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries
Died on Saturday May 2nd 2015
William Pfaff
American author and columnist
Died on Thursday April 30th 2015
Jagadish Mohanty
Indian Oriya language writer
Died on Sunday December 29th 2013
Ned Vizzini
American novelist (It's Kind of a Funny Story)
Died on Thursday December 19th 2013
C. T. Hsia
Chinese literary critic and academic
Died on Sunday December 29th 2013
Paul Torday
British author
Died on Wednesday December 18th 2013
Colin Wilson
English writer
Died on Thursday December 5th 2013
Rollo Gebhard
German circumnavigator and author
Died on Friday December 27th 2013
Marta Russell
American writer and disability rights activist
Died on Monday December 16th 2013
Jean-Luc Benoziglio
Swiss writer
Died on Thursday December 5th 2013
Allan Suter
American author and baseball player
Died on Thursday December 26th 2013
Janet Dailey
American romance writer
Died on Saturday December 14th 2013
Joana Raspall i Juanola
Spanish Catalan writer
Died on Wednesday December 4th 2013
Lou Angeli
American writer and filmmaker
Died on Saturday December 14th 2013
Dinu Cocea
Romanian director and screenwriter
Died on Thursday December 26th 2013
Hugh Nissenson
American novelist
Died on Friday December 13th 2013
Ahmed Fouad Negm
Egyptian vernacular poet
Died on Tuesday December 3rd 2013
Chabua Amirejibi
Georgian writer
Died on Thursday December 12th 2013
Iván Bächer
Hungarian writer and journalist
Died on Monday December 2nd 2013
T. R. Fehrenbach
American author and historian
Died on Sunday December 1st 2013
Ian Barbour
American scholar and author
Died on Tuesday December 24th 2013
Barbara Branden
Canadian biographer
Died on Wednesday December 11th 2013
G. S. Shivarudrappa
Indian Kannada language poet
Died on Monday December 23rd 2013
Ravella Venkatarama Rao
Indian writer
Died on Tuesday December 10th 2013
Jacq Firmin Vogelaar
Dutch writer
Died on Monday December 9th 2013
Irina Korschunow
German writer
Died on Tuesday December 31st 2013
R. A. Foakes
British author and Shakespearean scholar
Died on Sunday December 22nd 2013
Sigrid Kahle
French-born Swedish journalist and writer
Died on Tuesday December 31st 2013
Kobus Van Rensburg
South African televangelist and author
Died on Saturday December 21st 2013
Orlando Álvarez
Chilean lawyer and writer
Died on Sunday December 8th 2013
Gerald Mortimer
British author and sports journalist (Derby Telegraph)
Died on Monday December 30th 2013
El Perlo de Triana
Spanish singer and poet
Died on Saturday December 21st 2013
Michael Vetter
German composer and novelist
Died on Saturday December 7th 2013
W. Harrison Daniel
American author and history professor
Died on Monday December 30th 2013
Jeff Shannon
American film critic and writer
Died on Friday December 20th 2013
Esther Streit-Wurzel
Israeli author
Died on Saturday December 7th 2013
Mary Wibberley
British novelist
Died on Sunday December 29th 2013
Didi Menosi
Israeli dramatist
Died on Friday December 20th 2013
Édouard Molinaro
French film director and screenwriter (La Cage aux Folles)
Died on Saturday December 7th 2013
Manuel F. Segura
Filipino army officer and author
Died on Wednesday November 27th 2013
Barbara Park
American author of children's books (Junie B. Jones)
Died on Friday November 15th 2013
Tato Laviera
American Nuyorican poet
Died on Friday November 1st 2013
Rudolf Lorenzen
German author
Died on Wednesday November 27th 2013
Mickey Knox
American actor and screenwriter (The Good
Died on Friday November 15th 2013
William Stevenson
British-born Canadian writer
Died on Tuesday November 26th 2013
Dena Epstein
American music librarian and author
Died on Thursday November 14th 2013
Seiji Tsutsumi
Japanese writer and businessman
Died on Monday November 25th 2013
Hari Krishna Devsare
Indian author of children's literature and magazine editor (Parag)
Died on Thursday November 14th 2013
Hans-Jürgen Heise
German author and poet
Died on Wednesday November 13th 2013
Festus Iyayi
Nigerian writer and academic
Died on Tuesday November 12th 2013
Georges Lautner
French film director and screenwriter
Died on Friday November 22nd 2013
Pushpa Thangadorai
Indian Tamil language author
Died on Sunday November 10th 2013
Wanda Coleman
American poet and screenwriter
Died on Friday November 22nd 2013
Moussa Konaté
Malian author and playwright
Died on Saturday November 30th 2013
Herbert Mitgang
American author
Died on Thursday November 21st 2013
Vijaydan Detha
Indian folk writer
Died on Sunday November 10th 2013
Brian Torrey Scott
American writer
Died on Friday November 29th 2013
John Egerton
American journalist and author
Died on Thursday November 21st 2013
Peter Krummeck
66. South African actor and playwright
Died on Saturday November 9th 2013
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Russian poet
Died on Friday November 29th 2013
Sylvia Browne
American author and self-proclaimed psychic
Died on Wednesday November 20th 2013
Jack Mitchell
American photographer and author
Died on Thursday November 7th 2013
Clara Cannucciari
American chef and author
Died on Friday November 29th 2013
Charlotte Zolotow
American author and poet
Died on Tuesday November 19th 2013
Tarla Dalal
Indian food writer and chef
Died on Wednesday November 6th 2013
Mohamed Sibari
Moroccan author
Died on Thursday November 28th 2013
Om Prakash Valmiki
Indian writer
Died on Sunday November 17th 2013
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Austrian-born American Yiddish language poet and folk singer
Died on Thursday November 28th 2013
Doris Lessing
British novelist (The Grass Is Singing
Died on Sunday November 17th 2013