Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Chopper Read
Australian crime figure and author
Died on Wednesday October 9th 2013
Carlo Castellaneta
Italian author and journalist
Died on Saturday September 28th 2013
Avrum Stroll
American philosopher and author
Died on Thursday September 12th 2013
José Ramón Larraz
Spanish movie director (Vampyres) and comics writer
Died on Tuesday September 3rd 2013
Erich Loest
German author and screenwriter (Nikolaikirche)
Died on Thursday September 12th 2013
Frederik Pohl
American science fiction author (Man Plus
Died on Monday September 2nd 2013
Choi In-ho
South Korean writer
Died 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 essayist
Died 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 writer
Died on Wednesday September 11th 2013
Luciano Vincenzoni
Italian screenwriter (For a Few Dollars More
Died on Sunday September 22nd 2013
Marshall Berman
American philosopher and writer
Died on Wednesday September 11th 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 diplomat
Died on Saturday September 21st 2013
Alberto Bevilacqua
Italian writer and film director
Died on Monday September 9th 2013
Anthony Hinds
British screenwriter and producer
Died on Monday September 30th 2013
Gilles Verlant
Belgian journalist and music critic
Died on Friday September 20th 2013
Ilja Hurník
Czech composer and essayist
Died on Saturday September 7th 2013
Joseph Granville
American financial writer
Died on Saturday September 7th 2013
Robert Leeson
English children's writer
Died on Sunday September 29th 2013
William Ungar
Polish-born American Holocaust survivor and memoirist
Died on Thursday September 19th 2013
Ann C. Crispin
American science fiction author (The Han Solo Trilogy
Died on Friday September 6th 2013
Marcella Hazan
Italian-born American cookbook author
Died on Sunday September 29th 2013
Robert Barnard
English crime writer and critic
Died on Thursday September 19th 2013
Robert Farrar Capon
American Episcopal priest and author
Died on Thursday September 5th 2013
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
German literary critic
Died on Wednesday September 18th 2013
James Emanuel
American poet and academic
Died on Saturday September 28th 2013
Sławomir Mrożek
Polish playwright
Died 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 author
Died on Friday August 30th 2013
Damon Intrabartolo
American playwright (Bare: A Pop Opera) and orchestrator (Superman Returns
Died on Tuesday August 13th 2013
Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov
Russian writer and journalist
Died on Monday August 12th 2013
Alfredo Betancourt
Salvadoran writer
Died on Friday August 30th 2013
Rafael Díaz Ycaza
Ecuadorian writer
Died on Wednesday August 28th 2013
Chen Liting
Chinese playwright and film director
Died on Tuesday August 27th 2013
William Froug
American Emmy Award-winning television writer
Died on Sunday August 25th 2013
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
Portuguese academic and author
Died on Friday August 9th 2013
Ciril Bergles
Slovene poet
Died on Sunday August 25th 2013
John Rankine
British science fiction author
Died on Thursday August 8th 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 screenwriter
Died on Tuesday August 20th 2013
John Kingsmill
Australian author
Died on Tuesday August 6th 2013
Dagon Taya
Burmese author and peace activist
Died on Monday August 19th 2013
Mirko Kovač
Montenegrin writer
Died on Monday August 19th 2013
Patricia Anthony
American science fiction author
Died on Friday August 2nd 2013
Albert Murray
American literary and jazz critic
Died on Sunday August 18th 2013
John Graves
American author (Goodbye to a River)
Died on Wednesday July 31st 2013
Takako Takahashi
Japanese novelist and French language translator
Died on Friday July 12th 2013
Gokulananda Mahapatra
Indian science fiction and children's author
Died on Wednesday July 10th 2013
Lafif Lakhdar
Tunisian writer and journalist
Died on Friday July 26th 2013
Barbara Robinson
American children's author (The Best Christmas Pageant Ever)
Died on Tuesday July 9th 2013
Marco Antonio Flores
Guatemalan author
Died on Friday July 26th 2013
Željko Malnar
Croatian writer and documentarist
Died on Tuesday July 9th 2013
Ryuchi Matsuda
Japanese martial arts writer
Died on Wednesday July 24th 2013
Denys de La Patellière
French film director (Marco the Magnificent) and novelist
Died on Sunday July 21st 2013
Helen Thomas
American journalist and author
Died on Saturday July 20th 2013
