Deaths Famous Dead Writers
Leslie Thomas
Welsh author (The Virgin Soldiers) · 06 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 6
Mark Elvins
British priest and author · 01 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 1
Michael Gottlieb
American director and screenwriter (Mannequin · 23 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 23
Học Phi
Vietnamese dramatist and scriptwriter · 06 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 6
Matthew Cowles
American actor and playwright (All My Children · 22 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 22
Bud Osborn
Canadian poet and activist · 06 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 6
Arthur Gelb
American newspaper editor and critic (The New York Times) · 20 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 20
Farley Mowat
Canadian author (People of the Deer · 06 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 6
Gabriel Kolko
American historian and author · 19 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 19
Amik Kasoruho
Albanian author and publicist · 05 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 5
Sam Greenlee
American writer and filmmaker (The Spook Who Sat by the Door) · 19 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 19
Bohdan Skaradziński
Polish writer and social activist · 04 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 4
Dobrica Ćosić
Serbian writer and politician · 18 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 18
Helga Königsdorf
East German physicist and author · 04 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 4
Steven H. Scheuer
American film and television historian and critic · 31 May 2014 · May 2014 · Scheuer · May 31
Matt Kailey
American author and transgender activist · 17 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 17
William Bender
American entertainment critic and magazine editor (Time) · 04 May 2014 · May 2014 · May 4
Philip Sugden
English historian and true crime writer (Jack the Ripper) · 26 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 26
Peter Matthiessen
American author (At Play in the Fields of the Lord · 05 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 5
Paul Robeson, Jr.
American archivist and author · 26 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 26 · Robeson
Muhammad Qutb
Egyptian Islamist author and academic · 04 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 4
Seth Roberts
American psychologist and self-help author · 26 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 26
Albert Manent
Spanish writer and activist · 14 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 14
Curtis Bill Pepper
American journalist (Newsweek) and author · 04 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 4 · Pepper
Judith Pinsker
American television writer · 26 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 26
Patrick Dewes Hanan
New Zealand sinologist and author · 26 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 26 · Hanan
William Ash
American-born British Marxist writer · 26 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 26
Stefanie Zweig
German writer (Nowhere in Africa) · 25 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 25
Mahjoub Sharif
Sudanese poet and activist · 02 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 2
Mark Shand
British travel writer and conservationist · 23 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 23
Vern Rutsala
American author and poet · 02 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 2
Eliza T. Dresang
American academic and author · 21 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 21 · Dresang
Sue Townsend
British novelist and playwright (Adrian Mole series) · 10 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 10
Junichi Watanabe
Japanese writer (A Lost Paradise) · 30 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 30
Gregory White Smith
American biographer (Jackson Pollock: An American Saga) · 10 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 10 · Smith
Miloš Mikeln
Slovene writer · 02 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 2
Marsha Mehran
Iranian-born American author · 30 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 30
Doris Pilkington Garimara
Australian author (Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence) · 10 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 10 · Garimara
Glyn Jones
South African writer and actor · 02 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 2
Erik Schmidt
Estonian painter and writer · 19 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 19
Richard Hoggart
British academic and author (The Uses of Literacy) · 10 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 10
Al Feldstein
American writer and editor (Mad · 29 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 29
Sanford Jay Frank
American television comedy writer (Late Night with David Letterman) · 18 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 18 · Frank
Karlheinz Deschner
German writer and activist · 08 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 8
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian author (One Hundred Years of Solitude · 17 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 17 · Márquez
Čedo Vuković
Montenegrin writer · 07 April 2014 · April 2014 · April 7
Noel Sheppard
American media critic and blogger (NewsBusters) · 28 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 28
Joe McGinniss
American author and political journalist · 10 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 10
Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
American screenwriter (Batman · 28 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 28 · Semple
Hank Utley
American author and historian · 19 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 19
Juan Balboa Boneke
Equatorial Guinean politician and writer · 10 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 10 · Boneke
Nigel Groom
British author and perfume connoisseur · 05 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 5
Sam McAughtry
Northern Irish writer and broadcaster · 28 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 28
Heather Robertson
Canadian journalist (Winnipeg Free Press) and author · 19 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 19
Barbara Halloran Gibbons
American cookbook author and columnist · 26 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 26 · Gibbons
Lucius Shepard
American science fiction author · 18 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 18
Sherwin B. Nuland
American National Book Award-winning author and surgeon · 03 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 3 · Nuland
Warren Forma
American documentary filmmaker and author · 26 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 26
Donald Michael Kraig
American occultist author and practitioner · 17 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 17 · Kraig
Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran
Indian Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author and literary critic · 25 March 2014 · Sivasankaran · March 2014 · March 25 · Thi
Gene Feist
American playwright and theatre director · 17 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 17
Alan Rodgers
American author and poet · 08 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 8
William Guarnere
American World War II non-commissioned officer and author · 08 March 2014 · March 2014 · March 8