Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
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
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
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
Nenad Petrović
Serbian writerDied on Friday March 21st 2014
Marga Spiegel
German writerDied on Tuesday March 11th 2014
John PiRoman
American screenwriter and playwrightDied on Tuesday March 11th 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
Judy Harrow
American author and Wiccan priestessDied on Thursday March 20th 2014
Brett Borgen
Norwegian writerDied on Tuesday March 11th 2014
Luis Villoro
Spanish-born Mexican philosopher and writerDied on Wednesday March 5th 2014
Noel Sheppard
American media critic and blogger (NewsBusters)Died on Friday March 28th 2014
Hennie Aucamp
South African poetDied on Thursday March 20th 2014
Joe McGinniss
American author and political journalistDied on Monday March 10th 2014
Leopoldo María Panero
Spanish poetDied on Wednesday March 5th 2014
Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
American screenwriter (BatmanDied on Friday March 28th 2014
Hank Utley
American author and historianDied on Wednesday March 19th 2014
Juan Balboa Boneke
Equatorial Guinean politician and writerDied on Monday March 10th 2014
Nigel Groom
British author and perfume connoisseurDied on Wednesday March 5th 2014
Sam McAughtry
Northern Irish writer and broadcasterDied on Friday March 28th 2014
Heather Robertson
Canadian journalist (Winnipeg Free Press) and authorDied on Wednesday March 19th 2014
Mark Freidkin
Russian writerDied on Tuesday March 4th 2014
Barbara Halloran Gibbons
American cookbook author and columnistDied on Wednesday March 26th 2014
Lucius Shepard
American science fiction authorDied on Tuesday March 18th 2014
Sherwin B. Nuland
American National Book Award-winning author and surgeonDied on Monday March 3rd 2014
Warren Forma
American documentary filmmaker and authorDied on Wednesday March 26th 2014
Donald Michael Kraig
American occultist author and practitionerDied on Monday March 17th 2014
Valentin Fortunov
Bulgarian writerDied on Sunday March 9th 2014
Justin Kaplan
American biographerDied on Sunday March 2nd 2014
Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran
Indian Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author and literary criticDied on Tuesday March 25th 2014
Gene Feist
American playwright and theatre directorDied on Monday March 17th 2014
Ryhor Baradulin
Belarusian poetDied on Sunday March 2nd 2014
Jonathan Schell
American authorDied on Tuesday March 25th 2014
Steve Moore
British cartoonist and writerDied on Sunday March 16th 2014
William Guarnere
American World War II non-commissioned officer and authorDied on Saturday March 8th 2014