Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Žarko Petan
Slovene writer
Died on Friday May 2nd 2014
Christine Daure-Serfaty
French human rights activist and writer
Died on Wednesday May 28th 2014
Charles Marowitz
American playwright
Died 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
Donald Kirkpatrick
American academic and author
Died on Friday May 9th 2014
Peggy O’Shea
American Daytime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (One Life to Live)
Died on Thursday May 1st 2014
John Maginnis
American political writer
Died on Sunday May 25th 2014
Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat
Indian author and politician
Died on Saturday May 24th 2014
Leslie Thomas
Welsh author (The Virgin Soldiers)
Died on Tuesday May 6th 2014
Michael Gottlieb
American director and screenwriter (Mannequin
Died on Friday May 23rd 2014
Học Phi
Vietnamese dramatist and scriptwriter
Died on Tuesday May 6th 2014
Matthew Cowles
American actor and playwright (All My Children
Died 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 Deer
Died on Tuesday May 6th 2014
Amik Kasoruho
Albanian author and publicist
Died 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 activist
Died on Sunday May 4th 2014
Dobrica Ćosić
Serbian writer and politician
Died on Sunday May 18th 2014
Steven H. Scheuer
American film and television historian and critic
Died on Saturday May 31st 2014
Matt Kailey
American author and transgender activist
Died on Saturday May 17th 2014
William Bender
American entertainment critic and magazine editor (Time)
Died on Sunday May 4th 2014
Allan Folsom
American novelist (The Day After Tomorrow)
Died on Friday May 16th 2014
Paul Robeson, Jr.
American archivist and author
Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Muhammad Qutb
Egyptian Islamist author and academic
Died on Friday April 4th 2014
Seth Roberts
American psychologist and self-help author
Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Curtis Bill Pepper
American journalist (Newsweek) and author
Died on Friday April 4th 2014
Judith Pinsker
American television writer
Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Prince Michael of Prussia
German author
Died on Thursday April 3rd 2014
Patrick Dewes Hanan
New Zealand sinologist and author
Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Régine Deforges
French author
Died on Thursday April 3rd 2014
William Ash
American-born British Marxist writer
Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Stefanie Zweig
German writer (Nowhere in Africa)
Died on Friday April 25th 2014
Michael Ruppert
American author
Died on Sunday April 13th 2014
Tadeusz Różewicz
Polish poet and playwright
Died on Thursday April 24th 2014
Øystein Øystå
Norwegian writer
Died on Saturday April 12th 2014
Mark Shand
British travel writer and conservationist
Died on Wednesday April 23rd 2014
Vern Rutsala
American author and poet
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Sue Townsend
British novelist and playwright (Adrian Mole series)
Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Junichi Watanabe
Japanese writer (A Lost Paradise)
Died on Wednesday April 30th 2014
Benedikt Sarnov
Russian author and literary critic
Died on Sunday April 20th 2014
Gregory White Smith
American biographer (Jackson Pollock: An American Saga)
Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Miloš Mikeln
Slovene writer
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Marsha Mehran
Iranian-born American author
Died on Wednesday April 30th 2014
Doris Pilkington Garimara
Australian author (Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence)
Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Glyn Jones
South African writer and actor
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Daphne Pochin Mould
British author and photographer
Died 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 (Mad
Died on Tuesday April 29th 2014
Sanford Jay Frank
American television comedy writer (Late Night with David Letterman)
Died on Friday April 18th 2014
Everett De Roche
Australian screenwriter
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
William Honan
American journalist and author
Died on Monday April 28th 2014
Anthony Marriott
British actor and playwright
Died on Thursday April 17th 2014
Karlheinz Deschner
German writer and activist
Died on Tuesday April 8th 2014
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian author (One Hundred Years of Solitude
Died on Thursday April 17th 2014
Čedo Vuković
Montenegrin writer
Died on Monday April 7th 2014
Philip Sugden
English historian and true crime writer (Jack the Ripper)
Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Peter Matthiessen
American author (At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Died on Saturday April 5th 2014
Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
American screenwriter (Batman
Died on Friday March 28th 2014
Hank Utley
American author and historian
Died on Wednesday March 19th 2014
Juan Balboa Boneke
Equatorial Guinean politician and writer
Died on Monday March 10th 2014
Nigel Groom
British author and perfume connoisseur
Died on Wednesday March 5th 2014
Sam McAughtry
Northern Irish writer and broadcaster
Died on Friday March 28th 2014
Heather Robertson
Canadian journalist (Winnipeg Free Press) and author
Died on Wednesday March 19th 2014
Justus Pfaue
German author and screenwriter
Died on Sunday March 9th 2014
Barbara Halloran Gibbons
American cookbook author and columnist
Died on Wednesday March 26th 2014
Lucius Shepard
American science fiction author
Died on Tuesday March 18th 2014