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
Ann Zwinger
American natural history authorDied on Saturday August 30th 2014
Bohumila Grögerová
Czech poetDied on Friday August 22nd 2014
Fanny Morweiser
German writerDied on Wednesday August 13th 2014
Joseph E. Persico
American writerDied on Saturday August 30th 2014
U. R. Ananthamurthy
Indian writerDied on Friday August 22nd 2014
Alan Landsburg
American screenwriterDied on Wednesday August 13th 2014
Shlomo Kalo
Israeli writerDied on Saturday August 30th 2014
Verna Vels
South African screenwriter and programme directorDied on Thursday August 21st 2014
Metakse
Armenian poetDied on Sunday August 10th 2014
Mayumi Inaba
Japanese writerDied on Saturday August 30th 2014
Peter Handrinos
American authorDied on Thursday August 21st 2014
Peter Chippindale
British newspaper journalist (The Guardian) and authorDied on Sunday August 10th 2014
Charles Bowden
American writerDied on Saturday August 30th 2014
Anton Buslov
Russian blogger and magazine columnist (The New Times)Died on Wednesday August 20th 2014
Macarthur Job
Australian aviation writer and air safety consultantDied on Wednesday August 6th 2014
Shamim Farooqui
Indian poetDied on Friday August 29th 2014
Maruxa Vilalta
Mexican playwright and theatre directorDied on Tuesday August 19th 2014
Clem Comly
American baseball researcher and authorDied on Wednesday August 6th 2014
Victor J. Stenger
American physicist and authorDied on Wednesday August 27th 2014
David St John Thomas
English publisher and writerDied on Tuesday August 19th 2014
Vladimir Orlov
Russian novelistDied on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Benno Pludra
German children's authorDied on Wednesday August 27th 2014
Candida Lycett Green
British authorDied on Tuesday August 19th 2014
Edward Leffingwell
American art critic and curatorDied on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Valeri Petrov
Bulgarian poetDied on Wednesday August 27th 2014
Richard Dauenhauer
American poetDied on Tuesday August 19th 2014
Scott Ciencin
American adaption novelist (GodzillaDied on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Herbert Lottman
American biographerDied on Wednesday August 27th 2014
Ruth Sacks Caplin
American screenwriter (Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont)Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Al Carrell
American home improvement expert and columnistDied on Wednesday August 27th 2014
Elaine M. Alphin
American authorDied on Tuesday August 19th 2014
Elfriede Brüning
German writerDied on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Eduardo White
Mozambican writerDied on Sunday August 24th 2014
Samih al-Qasim
Palestinian Druze poet and journalistDied on Tuesday August 19th 2014
Diann Blakely
American poetDied on Tuesday August 5th 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
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
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