Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Miodrag Pavlović
Serbian poetDied on Sunday August 17th 2014
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
American crime fiction writerDied on Sunday August 3rd 2014
Elsa Wiezell
Paraguayan poetDied on Saturday August 23rd 2014
Vsevolod Nestayko
Ukrainian children's writerDied on Saturday August 16th 2014
James Thompson
American-born Finnish crime writerDied on Saturday August 2nd 2014
Birgitta Stenberg
Swedish authorDied on Saturday August 23rd 2014
Jack Shallcrass
New Zealand authorDied on Wednesday August 13th 2014
Billie Letts
American novelist (Where the Heart Is)Died on Saturday August 2nd 2014
Peter Stursberg
Canadian writer and broadcasterDied on Sunday August 31st 2014
Peter Hopkirk
British journalist and author (The Great Game)Died on Friday August 22nd 2014
Dorothy Schwieder
American biographer and historianDied on Wednesday August 13th 2014
Jan Roar Leikvoll
Norwegian authorDied on Friday August 1st 2014
Jim Frederick
American author and magazine editor (Time)Died on Thursday July 31st 2014
Rubem Alves
Brazilian writerDied on Saturday July 19th 2014
Jamil Ahmad
Pakistani authorDied on Saturday July 12th 2014
Nabarun Bhattacharya
Indian authorDied on Thursday July 31st 2014
João Ubaldo Ribeiro
Brazilian writerDied on Friday July 18th 2014
Carin Mannheimer
Swedish author and screenwriterDied on Friday July 11th 2014
Rick Mittleman
American television writer (BewitchedDied on Wednesday July 30th 2014
Liam Davison
Australian authorDied on Thursday July 17th 2014
Curt Gentry
American author (Helter Skelter)Died on Thursday July 10th 2014
Thomas R. St. George
American authorDied on Tuesday July 29th 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Australian authorDied on Thursday July 17th 2014
Ken Simpson
Australian ornithologist and writer (Field Guide to the Birds of Australia)Died on Wednesday July 9th 2014
L.A. Meyer
American young adult author (Bloody Jack)Died on Tuesday July 29th 2014
J. T. Edson
English novelistDied on Thursday July 17th 2014
Ahmed Sheikh Jama
Somali politician and poetDied on Wednesday July 9th 2014
Gerallt Lloyd Owen
Welsh poetDied on Tuesday July 15th 2014
Sheila K. McCullagh
English authorDied on Monday July 7th 2014
Abdukadir Osman
Somali writerDied on Tuesday July 15th 2014
Duccia Camiciotti
Italian poetDied on Monday July 7th 2014
Warren Dibble
New Zealand playwright and poetDied on Sunday July 27th 2014
Sulekha Hussain
Indian Urdu novelistDied on Tuesday July 15th 2014
Vicenç Badalona Ballestar
Spanish figurative artist and authorDied on Monday July 7th 2014
Louise Shivers
American novelistDied on Saturday July 26th 2014
Óscar Acosta
Honduran authorDied on Tuesday July 15th 2014
Tô Hoài
Vietnamese writerDied on Sunday July 6th 2014
Bel Kaufman
German-born American teacher and author (Up the Down Staircase)Died on Friday July 25th 2014
Andrew Mango
Turkish-born British journalist (BBC) and biographer (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)Died on Sunday July 6th 2014
Hans-Hermann Sprado
German journalist and authorDied on Thursday July 24th 2014
Hugh Davidson
Canadian music critic and arts administratorDied on Monday July 14th 2014
C. J. Henderson
American horror and crime authorDied on Friday July 4th 2014
Ariano Suassuna
Brazilian writerDied on Wednesday July 23rd 2014
Nadine Gordimer
South African writer (The ConservationistDied on Sunday July 13th 2014
Torill Thorstad Hauger
Norwegian authorDied on Friday July 4th 2014
Gilad Margalit
Israeli historian and writerDied on Wednesday July 23rd 2014
Alfred de Grazia
American political scientist and authorDied on Sunday July 13th 2014
Giorgio Faletti
Italian authorDied on Friday July 4th 2014
Thomas Berger
American novelist (Little Big Man)Died on Sunday July 13th 2014
Louise Abeita
American Pueblo writerDied on Monday July 21st 2014
Hullad Moradabadi
Indian Hindi language poetDied on Saturday July 12th 2014
Peter Whelan
British playwright (The Herbal BedDied on Thursday July 3rd 2014
John Fasano
American screenwriter (Another 48 Hrs.)Died on Saturday July 19th 2014
Ken Goodwin
Australian academic and authorDied on Saturday July 12th 2014
Walter Dean Myers
American award-winning children's writer (Fallen AngelsDied on Tuesday July 1st 2014
Nigel Calder
British science writer (New Scientist) and television screenwriterDied on Wednesday June 25th 2014
Dan Jacobson
South African writer and academicDied on Thursday June 12th 2014
Maria Luisa Spaziani
Italian poetDied on Monday June 30th 2014
Steve Viksten
American television writer and voice actor (Hey Arnold!)Died on Monday June 23rd 2014
Ernest Tursunov
Kyrgyzstani poet and translatorDied on Wednesday June 11th 2014
Frank M. Robinson
American science fiction writer (The Power) and speechwriter (Harvey Milk)Died on Monday June 30th 2014
Nancy Garden
American writer (Annie on My Mind) and LGBT activistDied on Monday June 23rd 2014
Jean-Pierre Renouard
French writerDied on Monday June 30th 2014
Paul Mazursky
American film director and screenwriter (An Unmarried WomanDied on Monday June 30th 2014
Fouad Ajami
Lebanese-born American political scientist and authorDied on Sunday June 22nd 2014
Robert Arthur Alexie
Canadian Gwich'in politician and novelistDied on Tuesday June 10th 2014
Pierre Bec
French Occitan language poet and linguistDied on Monday June 30th 2014
Roland Hill
German-born British journalist and biographerDied on Saturday June 21st 2014
Gerry Conlon
Northern Irish author and human rights activistDied on Saturday June 21st 2014
Abul Hussain
Bangladeshi poetDied on Sunday June 29th 2014
Jónas Kristjánsson
Icelandic academic and novelistDied on Saturday June 7th 2014
Dermot Healy
Irish poetDied on Sunday June 29th 2014
Claire Martin
Canadian authorDied on Wednesday June 18th 2014
Jurij Gustinčič
Slovene journalist and writerDied on Saturday June 7th 2014
Petter Schramm
Norwegian poetDied on Friday June 27th 2014
Maria Perosino
Italian author and art historianDied on Monday June 16th 2014
Kevin Elyot
British scriptwriter (Clapham Junction) and playwright (My Night with Reg)Died on Saturday June 7th 2014
Allen Grossman
American poet (Bollingen Prize)Died on Friday June 27th 2014
Daniel Keyes
American author (Flowers for Algernon)Died on Sunday June 15th 2014
Eric Hill
British children's writer and illustrator (Spot the Dog)Died on Friday June 6th 2014
P. N. Furbank
British writer and literary criticDied on Friday June 27th 2014
Alberto Cañas Escalante
Costa Rican writerDied on Saturday June 14th 2014
Edward Sövik
American architect and authorDied on Wednesday June 4th 2014
Mary Rodgers
American composer (Once Upon a Mattress) and children's author (Freaky Friday)Died on Thursday June 26th 2014
Robert Peters
American poetDied on Friday June 13th 2014