Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
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
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
Werner Uebelmann
Swiss entrepreneur and writerDied on Saturday March 1st 2014
Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy
Sierra Leonean poetDied on Sunday March 16th 2014
Philippe Ebly
Belgian science fiction and fantasy writerDied on Saturday March 1st 2014
Lorna Arnold
British nuclear historian and authorDied on Tuesday March 25th 2014
Bob Thomas
American journalist (Associated Press) and biographerDied on Friday March 14th 2014
Ned O’Gorman
American poetDied on Friday March 7th 2014
John Rowe Townsend
British children's author (The Intruder)Died on Monday March 24th 2014
Icchokas Meras
Lithuanian-born Israeli writerDied on Thursday March 13th 2014
Sir Thomas Hinde
British novelistDied on Friday March 7th 2014
Roy Peter Martin
British authorDied on Sunday March 23rd 2014
Bill Knott
American poetDied on Wednesday March 12th 2014
Musa Geshaev
Chechen poetDied on Friday March 7th 2014
Yashwant Vithoba Chittal
Indian Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author (The Boy who Talked to Trees)Died on Saturday March 22nd 2014
David Yeagley
American Comanche political writerDied on Tuesday March 11th 2014
Manlio Sgalambro
Italian philosopher and writerDied on Thursday March 6th 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
David McKinney
New Zealand author and journalistDied on Tuesday February 25th 2014
Federico Campbell
Mexican writerDied on Saturday February 15th 2014
Isaac de Vega
Spanish Canarian writerDied on Monday February 3rd 2014
Bhob Stewart
American cartoonist and writerDied on Monday February 24th 2014
Marshall Browne
Australian banking executive and crime novelistDied on Friday February 14th 2014
Rene Ricard
American poetDied on Saturday February 1st 2014
Harold Ramis
American writerDied on Monday February 24th 2014
Uanhenga Xitu
Angolan writer and politicianDied on Thursday February 13th 2014
Orlanda Amarílis
Cape Verdean authorDied on Saturday February 1st 2014
Juan José Plans
Spanish writerDied on Monday February 24th 2014
Ken’ichi Yamamoto
Japanese novelistDied on Thursday February 13th 2014
John Grant
Scottish children's authorDied on Sunday February 23rd 2014
John Bagonzi
American authorDied on Thursday February 13th 2014
Giancarlo Livraghi
Italian authorDied on Saturday February 22nd 2014
Maggie Estep
American poet and writer (Love is a Dog From Hell)Died on Wednesday February 12th 2014
Margarita Stāraste-Bordevīka
Russian-born Latvian author of children's booksDied on Tuesday February 18th 2014
Peter Desbarats
Canadian authorDied on Tuesday February 11th 2014
Gregory Kane
American newspaper columnist (Baltimore Sun)Died on Tuesday February 18th 2014
Fazal Shahabuddin
Bangladeshi poet and journalistDied on Sunday February 9th 2014
James Tague
American writerDied on Friday February 28th 2014
Mavis Gallant
Canadian writerDied on Tuesday February 18th 2014
Ana María Moix
Spanish writerDied on Friday February 28th 2014
Ounsi el-Hajj
Lebanese poetDied on Tuesday February 18th 2014
Eric Bercovici
American screenwriter and producer (Shōgun)Died on Sunday February 9th 2014
Michio Mado
Japanese poetDied on Friday February 28th 2014
Don Safran
American screenwriter (Happy Days) and producerDied on Monday February 17th 2014
Peter Philipp
German writer and comedianDied on Thursday February 6th 2014
Hugo Brandt Corstius
Dutch authorDied on Friday February 28th 2014
Alison Jolly
American primatologist and authorDied on Thursday February 6th 2014
Michael Shea
American science fiction author (Polyphemus)Died on Sunday February 16th 2014
Mirkka Rekola
Finnish writerDied on Wednesday February 5th 2014