Matthew Cowles
American actor and playwright (All My Children
Died on Thursday May 22nd 2014
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
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
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
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
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
Patrick Dewes Hanan
New Zealand sinologist and author
Died on Saturday April 26th 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
Tadeusz Różewicz
Polish poet and playwright
Died on Thursday April 24th 2014
Mark Shand
British travel writer and conservationist
Died on Wednesday April 23rd 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
John PiRoman
American screenwriter and playwright
Died on Tuesday March 11th 2014
Khushwant Singh
Indian journalist and author (Train to Pakistan)
Died on Thursday March 20th 2014
Marilyn Butler
British literary critic and academic
Died on Tuesday March 11th 2014
Martin Gottfried
American drama critic and biographer
Died on Thursday March 6th 2014
Bob Larbey
British comedy scriptwriter (Please Sir!
Died on Monday March 31st 2014
Judy Harrow
American author and Wiccan priestess
Died on Thursday March 20th 2014
Luis Villoro
Spanish-born Mexican philosopher and writer
Died on Wednesday March 5th 2014
Noel Sheppard
American media critic and blogger (NewsBusters)
Died on Friday March 28th 2014
Hennie Aucamp
South African poet
Died on Thursday March 20th 2014
Joe McGinniss
American author and political journalist
Died on Monday March 10th 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
Sherwin B. Nuland
American National Book Award-winning author and surgeon
Died on Monday March 3rd 2014
Warren Forma
American documentary filmmaker and author
Died on Wednesday March 26th 2014
Donald Michael Kraig
American occultist author and practitioner
Died on Monday March 17th 2014
Justin Kaplan
American biographer
Died on Sunday March 2nd 2014
Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran
Indian Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author and literary critic
Died on Tuesday March 25th 2014
Gene Feist
American playwright and theatre director
Died on Monday March 17th 2014
Ryhor Baradulin
Belarusian poet
Died on Sunday March 2nd 2014
Steve Moore
British cartoonist and writer
Died on Sunday March 16th 2014
William Guarnere
American World War II non-commissioned officer and author
Died on Saturday March 8th 2014
Werner Uebelmann
Swiss entrepreneur and writer
Died on Saturday March 1st 2014
