Manoranjan Das
Indian playwrightDied on Sunday February 17th 2013
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Renato Olivieri
Italian giallo novelistDied on Friday February 8th 2013
William Bridges
American author and business consultantDied on Sunday February 17th 2013
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
American academic and authorDied on Friday February 8th 2013
Glenn Snyder
88. American author and political scientistDied on Thursday February 14th 2013
Maureen Dragone
American journalist and authorDied on Friday February 8th 2013
T. L. Osborn
American televangelist and authorDied on Thursday February 14th 2013
Krsto Papić
Croatian screenwriter and film director (My Uncle's Legacy)Died on Thursday February 7th 2013
Nancy Cooke de Herrera
American socialite and authorDied on Thursday February 28th 2013
Friedrich Neznansky
Russian writerDied on Thursday February 14th 2013
Niki Marangou
Cypriot writer and painterDied on Thursday February 7th 2013
Imants Ziedonis
Latvian poetDied on Wednesday February 27th 2013
Richard J. Collins
American screenwriter (BonanzaDied on Thursday February 14th 2013
Shelby Whitfield
American sports announcer and authorDied on Tuesday February 5th 2013
Molly Lefebure
British writerDied on Wednesday February 27th 2013
Mary Brave Bird
American Lakota writer and activistDied on Thursday February 14th 2013
Leda Mileva
Bulgarian writerDied on Tuesday February 5th 2013
Sung Chan-gyeong
South Korean poetDied on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Glenn Boyer
American author and Wyatt Earp historianDied on Thursday February 14th 2013
Marshall Miles
American bridge player and authorDied on Tuesday February 5th 2013
Stéphane Hessel
German-born French author and diplomatDied on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Oswald LeWinter
Austrian-born American writerDied on Wednesday February 13th 2013
Richard E. Geis
American science fiction writerDied on Monday February 4th 2013
Jan Howard Finder
American science fiction writerDied on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Margaret Frazer
American historical novelistDied on Monday February 4th 2013
Mahmoud Salem
Egyptian authorDied on Sunday February 24th 2013
Barnaby Conrad
American authorDied on Tuesday February 12th 2013
Sylvia Smith
British writerDied on Saturday February 23rd 2013
D. Vinayachandran
Indian Malayalam poetDied on Monday February 11th 2013
Sirajul Haq Memon
Pakistani authorDied on Saturday February 2nd 2013
Maurice Rosy
Belgian comics writerDied on Saturday February 23rd 2013
W. Watts Biggers
American novelistDied on Sunday February 10th 2013
Chris Kyle
American author and Navy SEAL sniperDied on Saturday February 2nd 2013
Donald Richie
American-born Japanese film critic and cinematic authorDied on Tuesday February 19th 2013
Richard Twiss
American educator and authorDied on Saturday February 9th 2013
Otfried Preußler
German children's book author (The Robber Hotzenplotz)Died on Monday February 18th 2013
Aki Orr
German–born Israeli politician and writerDied on Saturday February 9th 2013
Debbie Ford
American authorDied on Sunday February 17th 2013
Alan Sharp
Scottish screenwriter (Rob RoyDied on Friday February 8th 2013
Ferrol Sams
American author and physicianDied on Tuesday January 29th 2013
Pavlos Matesis
Greek writerDied on Sunday January 20th 2013
Evan S. Connell
American novelistDied on Thursday January 10th 2013
Slobodan Rakitić
Serbian writer and politicianDied on Tuesday January 1st 2013
Anselm Hollo
Finnish poet and translatorDied on Tuesday January 29th 2013
Hans Massaquoi
German-born American journalist and authorDied on Saturday January 19th 2013
Jim Godbolt
British jazz writer and historianDied on Wednesday January 9th 2013
Benedict Zilliacus
Finnish writerDied on Monday January 28th 2013
Jacques Sadoul
French writer and book editorDied on Friday January 18th 2013
Watson Parker
American historian and authorDied on Tuesday January 8th 2013
Ceija Stojka
Austrian Romani writerDied on Monday January 28th 2013
John R. Powers
American author (Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?)Died on Thursday January 17th 2013
Harvey Shapiro
American poet and newspaper editor (The New York Times)Died on Monday January 7th 2013
Shōtarō Yasuoka
Japanese writerDied on Saturday January 26th 2013
Jack McCarthy
American poetDied on Thursday January 17th 2013
Maruša Krese
Slovene poetDied on Monday January 7th 2013
Frank Keating
English sports writerDied on Friday January 25th 2013
Jakob Arjouni
German authorDied on Thursday January 17th 2013
Ada Louise Huxtable
American architecture critic (Wall Street Journal) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1970)Died on Monday January 7th 2013
Leila Buckley
British poetDied on Friday January 25th 2013
Pauline Phillips
American advice columnist ("Dear Abby")Died on Wednesday January 16th 2013
Metin Kaçan
Turkish novelistDied on Sunday January 6th 2013
Lucien Stryk
American poet and translatorDied on Thursday January 24th 2013
Nagisa Oshima
Japanese director and screenwriter (In the Realm of the Senses)Died on Tuesday January 15th 2013
Sol Yurick
American author (The Warriors)Died on Saturday January 5th 2013
Richard G. Stern
American writerDied on Thursday January 24th 2013
Jennings Michael Burch
American writerDied on Tuesday January 15th 2013
T. S. Cook
American screenwriter (The China Syndrome)Died on Saturday January 5th 2013
Yemi Ajibade
Nigerian–born British playwright and actorDied on Thursday January 24th 2013
Gwendoline Butler
British authorDied on Saturday January 5th 2013
Jonathan Rendall
English authorDied on Wednesday January 23rd 2013
Katie Stewart
British cookery writerDied on Sunday January 13th 2013
Richard A. Long
American author and historianDied on Friday January 4th 2013
Tom Jankiewicz
American screenwriter (Grosse Pointe Blank)Died on Wednesday January 23rd 2013
Steven Utley
American science-fiction writerDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Salik Lucknawi
Indian Urdu poetDied on Friday January 4th 2013
Michael Winner
British film director (Death Wish) and food criticDied on Monday January 21st 2013
Jean Krier
Luxembourgian poetDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Teresa Torańska
Polish journalist (Gazeta Wyborcza) and writerDied on Wednesday January 2nd 2013
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño
Mexican poet and classicistDied on Thursday January 31st 2013
M.S. Udayamurthy
Indian Tamil language writerDied on Monday January 21st 2013
Gregory Victor Babic
Australian writerDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Alexei Rudeanu
Romanian writerDied on Wednesday January 2nd 2013
Harvey Einbinder
American physicist and authorDied on Wednesday January 30th 2013
Toyo Shibata
Japanese poetDied on Sunday January 20th 2013
Robert Kee
British writerDied on Friday January 11th 2013
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
American psychologist and authorDied on Wednesday January 2nd 2013
Gamal al-Banna
Egyptian author and scholarDied on Wednesday January 30th 2013
Dolores Prida
Cuban-born American advice columnist (Latina)Died on Sunday January 20th 2013
Claude Fredericks
American playwright and memoiristDied on Friday January 11th 2013
Charles Chilton
British BBC Radio writerDied on Wednesday January 2nd 2013
Ekhlasuddin Ahmed
Bangladeshi children's writerDied on Wednesday December 24th 2014
Ralph Giordano
German writer and publicistDied on Wednesday December 10th 2014
Norm Phelps
American author and animal rights activistDied on Wednesday December 31st 2014
Jeremy Lloyd
British screenwriter (Are You Being Served?Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2014
Sacvan Bercovitch
Canadian literary and cultural criticDied on Tuesday December 9th 2014
Michael Kennedy
British biographerDied on Wednesday December 31st 2014