Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Steven H. Scheuer
American film and television historian and criticDied on Saturday May 31st 2014
Matt Kailey
American author and transgender activistDied on Saturday May 17th 2014
William Bender
American entertainment critic and magazine editor (Time)Died on Sunday May 4th 2014
Brajanath Ratha
Indian Oriya poetDied on Saturday May 31st 2014
Allan Folsom
American novelist (The Day After Tomorrow)Died on Friday May 16th 2014
John Hartley Williams
British poetDied on Saturday May 3rd 2014
Marilyn Beck
American syndicated entertainment journalist and columnistDied on Saturday May 31st 2014
Francisco Icaza
Mexican modernist artist and writerDied on Saturday May 3rd 2014
Michael Szameit
German science fiction writerDied on Friday May 30th 2014
Emanuel Raymond Lewis
American librarian and authorDied on Wednesday May 14th 2014
Hienadz Buraukin
Belarusian poetDied on Friday May 30th 2014
Miguel Brascó
Argentine writerDied on Saturday May 10th 2014
Žarko Petan
Slovene writerDied on Friday May 2nd 2014
Christine Daure-Serfaty
French human rights activist and writerDied on Wednesday May 28th 2014
Carmen Alardín
Mexican poetDied on Saturday May 10th 2014
Charles Marowitz
American playwrightDied on Friday May 2nd 2014
Maya Angelou
American author (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)Died on Wednesday May 28th 2014
Howard Smith
American columnist (The Village Voice) and filmmaker (Marjoe)Died on Thursday May 1st 2014
Malcolm MacDonald
Scottish music criticDied on Tuesday May 27th 2014
Peggy O’Shea
American Daytime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (One Life to Live)Died on Thursday May 1st 2014
John Maginnis
American political writerDied on Sunday May 25th 2014
Mercedes Salisachs
Spanish writerDied on Thursday May 8th 2014
Richard Percival Lister
English authorDied on Thursday May 1st 2014
Leslie Thomas
Welsh author (The Virgin Soldiers)Died on Tuesday May 6th 2014
Mark Elvins
British priest and authorDied on Thursday May 1st 2014
Michael Gottlieb
American director and screenwriter (MannequinDied on Friday May 23rd 2014
Matthew Cowles
American actor and playwright (All My ChildrenDied on Thursday May 22nd 2014
Arthur Gelb
American newspaper editor and critic (The New York Times)Died on Tuesday May 20th 2014
Farley Mowat
Canadian author (People of the DeerDied on Tuesday May 6th 2014
Amik Kasoruho
Albanian author and publicistDied on Monday May 5th 2014
Sam Greenlee
American writer and filmmaker (The Spook Who Sat by the Door)Died on Monday May 19th 2014
Bohdan Skaradziński
Polish writer and social activistDied on Sunday May 4th 2014
William Honan
American journalist and authorDied on Monday April 28th 2014
Anthony Marriott
British actor and playwrightDied on Thursday April 17th 2014
Gerard Benson
British poetDied on Monday April 28th 2014
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian author (One Hundred Years of SolitudeDied on Thursday April 17th 2014
Čedo Vuković
Montenegrin writerDied on Monday April 7th 2014
Philip Sugden
English historian and true crime writer (Jack the Ripper)Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Brock Brower
American writerDied on Wednesday April 16th 2014
Peter Matthiessen
American author (At Play in the Fields of the LordDied on Saturday April 5th 2014
Paul Robeson, Jr.
American archivist and authorDied on Saturday April 26th 2014
Rosemary Tonks
British poetDied on Tuesday April 15th 2014
Muhammad Qutb
Egyptian Islamist author and academicDied on Friday April 4th 2014
Seth Roberts
American psychologist and self-help authorDied on Saturday April 26th 2014
Curtis Bill Pepper
American journalist (Newsweek) and authorDied on Friday April 4th 2014
Judith Pinsker
American television writerDied on Saturday April 26th 2014
Crad Kilodney
Canadian writerDied on Monday April 14th 2014
Prince Michael of Prussia
German authorDied on Thursday April 3rd 2014
Patrick Dewes Hanan
New Zealand sinologist and authorDied on Saturday April 26th 2014
Nina Cassian
Romanian poetDied on Monday April 14th 2014
Régine Deforges
French authorDied on Thursday April 3rd 2014
William Ash
American-born British Marxist writerDied on Saturday April 26th 2014
Reid Buckley
American novelistDied on Monday April 14th 2014
Andrei Bodiu
Romanian poetDied on Thursday April 3rd 2014
Stefanie Zweig
German writer (Nowhere in Africa)Died on Friday April 25th 2014
Michael Ruppert
American authorDied on Sunday April 13th 2014
Urs Widmer
Swiss authorDied on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Øystein Øystå
Norwegian writerDied on Saturday April 12th 2014
Mahjoub Sharif
Sudanese poet and activistDied on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Mark Shand
British travel writer and conservationistDied on Wednesday April 23rd 2014
Pierre Autin-Grenier
French authorDied on Saturday April 12th 2014
Sue Townsend
British novelist and playwright (Adrian Mole series)Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Unnikrishnan Puthur
Indian novelistDied on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Junichi Watanabe
Japanese writer (A Lost Paradise)Died on Wednesday April 30th 2014
Benedikt Sarnov
Russian author and literary criticDied on Sunday April 20th 2014
Gregory White Smith
American biographer (Jackson Pollock: An American Saga)Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Miloš Mikeln
Slovene writerDied on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Marsha Mehran
Iranian-born American authorDied on Wednesday April 30th 2014
Alistair MacLeod
Canadian authorDied on Sunday April 20th 2014
Doris Pilkington Garimara
Australian author (Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence)Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Glyn Jones
South African writer and actorDied on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Daphne Pochin Mould
British author and photographerDied on Tuesday April 29th 2014
Richard Hoggart
British academic and author (The Uses of Literacy)Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Al Feldstein
American writer and editor (MadDied on Tuesday April 29th 2014
Sanford Jay Frank
American television comedy writer (Late Night with David Letterman)Died on Friday April 18th 2014
Svetlana Velmar-Janković
Serbian writerDied on Wednesday April 9th 2014
Everett De Roche
Australian screenwriterDied on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Ahmet Yorulmaz
Turkish writerDied on Monday March 31st 2014
Khushwant Singh
Indian journalist and author (Train to Pakistan)Died on Thursday March 20th 2014
Marilyn Butler
British literary critic and academicDied on Tuesday March 11th 2014
Martin Gottfried
American drama critic and biographerDied on Thursday March 6th 2014
Bob Larbey
British comedy scriptwriter (Please Sir!Died on Monday March 31st 2014