Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
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
Severiano Álvarez
Spanish writer
Died on Monday September 23rd 2013
Ramachandra Deva
Indian poet
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
Álvaro Mutis
Colombian poet
Died 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 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
Toyoko Yamasaki
Japanese writer
Died on Sunday September 29th 2013
Carolyn Cassady
American beat writer
Died on Friday September 20th 2013
Joseph Granville
American financial writer
Died on Saturday September 7th 2013
Dagon Taya
Burmese author and peace activist
Died on Monday August 19th 2013
Sherko Bekas
Iraqi Kurdish poet
Died on Sunday August 4th 2013
Mirko Kovač
Montenegrin writer
Died on Monday August 19th 2013
Iryna Zhylenko
Ukrainian poet
Died on Saturday August 3rd 2013
Albert Murray
American literary and jazz critic
Died on Sunday August 18th 2013
Patricia Anthony
American science fiction author
Died on Friday August 2nd 2013
John Hollander
American poet
Died on Saturday August 17th 2013
Sławomir Mrożek
Polish playwright
Died on Thursday August 15th 2013
Min Lu dead at age 60
Min Lu, a Burmese humorist and writer,
died on August 14, 2013, at age 60. Born Nyan Paw in Yangon in 1954, he was known in Myanmar’s literary world for…
Romana Kryzanowska
American Pilates instructor and author
Died on Friday August 30th 2013
Jun Sadogawa
Japanese manga author (Muteki Kanban Musume)
Died on Tuesday August 13th 2013
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
Died on Friday August 30th 2013
Damon Intrabartolo
American playwright (Bare: A Pop Opera) and orchestrator (Superman Returns
Died on Tuesday August 13th 2013
Alfredo Betancourt
Salvadoran writer
Died on Friday August 30th 2013
Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov
Russian writer and journalist
Died on Monday August 12th 2013
Rafael Díaz Ycaza
Ecuadorian writer
Died on Wednesday August 28th 2013
Maung Wuntha
Burmese writer and activist
Died on Sunday August 11th 2013
Chen Liting
Chinese playwright and film director
Died on Tuesday August 27th 2013
Penelope Casas
American food author
Died on Sunday August 11th 2013
William Froug
American Emmy Award-winning television writer
Died on Sunday August 25th 2013
Amy Wallace
American writer
Died on Saturday August 10th 2013
Ciril Bergles
Slovene poet
Died on Sunday August 25th 2013
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
Portuguese academic and author
Died on Friday August 9th 2013
Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo
Mexican writer
Died on Saturday August 24th 2013
John Rankine
British science fiction author
Died on Thursday August 8th 2013
Ewa Petelska
Polish film director (Copernicus) and screenwriter
Died on Tuesday August 20th 2013
Barbara Mertz
American mystery writer (The Last Camel Died at Noon)
Died on Thursday August 8th 2013
Elmore Leonard
American author (Get Shorty
Died on Tuesday August 20th 2013
John Kingsmill
Australian author
Died on Tuesday August 6th 2013
Helen Thomas
American journalist and author
Died on Saturday July 20th 2013
Alice Masak French
Canadian Inuvialuit author
Died on Friday July 5th 2013
Mansour Eid
Lebanese writer
Died on Wednesday July 17th 2013
Pamela Ropner
British author
Died on Thursday July 4th 2013
Vincenzo Cerami
Italian screenwriter (Life Is Beautiful)
Died on Wednesday July 17th 2013
Madan Mohan Mishra
Nepalese author
Died on Thursday July 4th 2013
Jon Manchip White
Welsh–born American novellist and screenwriter
Died on Wednesday July 31st 2013
Snoo Wilson
English playwright and screenwriter
Died on Wednesday July 3rd 2013
Jean Madiran
French nationalist writer
Died on Wednesday July 31st 2013
Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey
British nobleman and author
Died 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 translator
Died on Friday July 12th 2013
Francis Ray
American author
Died on Tuesday July 2nd 2013
Elaine Morgan
Welsh writer
Died on Friday July 12th 2013
Alvarez Guedes
Cuban writer and comedian
Died on Tuesday July 30th 2013
Gokulananda Mahapatra
Indian science fiction and children's author
Died on Wednesday July 10th 2013
Jūgatsu Toi
Japanese travel writer
Died on Sunday July 28th 2013
Ana Emilia Lahitte
91 Argentine writer
Died on Wednesday July 10th 2013
Lafif Lakhdar
Tunisian writer and journalist
Died on Friday July 26th 2013
Gaétan Soucy
Canadian novelist
Died on Tuesday July 9th 2013
Leighton Gage
American crime author
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
Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
Russian historian and writer
Died on Tuesday July 9th 2013
Pauline Clarke
English children's author
Died on Tuesday July 23rd 2013
Sundri Uttamchandani
Indian writer
Died on Monday July 8th 2013
Ugo Riccarelli
Italian novelist
Died on Sunday July 21st 2013
Edmund Morgan
American historian and author
Died on Monday July 8th 2013
Denys de La Patellière
French film director (Marco the Magnificent) and novelist
Died on Sunday July 21st 2013
Curtis Harnack
American nonfiction author
Died on Friday July 5th 2013
Parke Godwin
American author
Died on Wednesday June 19th 2013
Vince Flynn
American author (Mitch Rapp)
Died on Wednesday June 19th 2013
Rachel Abrams
American writer
Died on Friday June 7th 2013
Atiqul Haque Chowdhury
Bangladeshi playwright and TV producer
Died on Monday June 17th 2013
Tom Sharpe
British author (Porterhouse Blue
Died on Thursday June 6th 2013
Michael Baigent
New Zealand author (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail)
Died on Monday June 17th 2013
Nada Inada
Japanese psychiatrist and writer
Died on Thursday June 6th 2013
Bernard Sahlins
American comedy writer and theater owner
Died on Sunday June 16th 2013
Kampta Karran
Guyanan sociologist and author
Died on Wednesday June 5th 2013
Maurice Nadeau
French writer and editor
Died on Sunday June 16th 2013
Bruce Cathie
New Zealand UFO author and theorist
Died on Sunday June 2nd 2013
Margherita Hack
Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer
Died on Saturday June 29th 2013
Khondakar Ashraf Hossain
Bangladesh poet and academic
Died on Sunday June 16th 2013
Atle Kittang
Norwegian literary researcher and critic
Died on Saturday June 1st 2013