William Bender
American entertainment critic and magazine editor (Time)
Died on Sunday May 4th 2014
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Brajanath Ratha
Indian Oriya poet
Died on Saturday May 31st 2014
Allan Folsom
American novelist (The Day After Tomorrow)
Died on Friday May 16th 2014
John Hartley Williams
British poet
Died on Saturday May 3rd 2014
Paul Robeson, Jr.
American archivist and author
Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Rosemary Tonks
British poet
Died on Tuesday April 15th 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
Albert Manent
Spanish writer and activist
Died on Monday April 14th 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
Crad Kilodney
Canadian writer
Died on Monday April 14th 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
Nina Cassian
Romanian poet
Died on Monday April 14th 2014
Régine Deforges
French author
Died on Thursday April 3rd 2014
William Ash
American-born British Marxist writer
Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Reid Buckley
American novelist
Died on Monday April 14th 2014
Andrei Bodiu
Romanian poet
Died on Thursday April 3rd 2014
Stefanie Zweig
German writer (Nowhere in Africa)
Died on Friday April 25th 2014
Michael Ruppert
American author
Died on Sunday April 13th 2014
Urs Widmer
Swiss author
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Tadeusz Różewicz
Polish poet and playwright
Died on Thursday April 24th 2014
Øystein Øystå
Norwegian writer
Died on Saturday April 12th 2014
Mahjoub Sharif
Sudanese poet and activist
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Mark Shand
British travel writer and conservationist
Died on Wednesday April 23rd 2014
Pierre Autin-Grenier
French author
Died on Saturday April 12th 2014
Vern Rutsala
American author and poet
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Eliza T. Dresang
American academic and author
Died on Monday April 21st 2014
Sue Townsend
British novelist and playwright (Adrian Mole series)
Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Unnikrishnan Puthur
Indian novelist
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 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
Junichi Watanabe
Japanese writer (A Lost Paradise)
Died on Wednesday April 30th 2014
Alistair MacLeod
Canadian author
Died 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 actor
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Marsha Mehran
Iranian-born American author
Died on Wednesday April 30th 2014
Erik Schmidt
Estonian painter and writer
Died on Saturday April 19th 2014
Richard Hoggart
British academic and author (The Uses of Literacy)
Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Harris Goldsmith
American pianist and critic
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Daphne Pochin Mould
British author and photographer
Died 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 writer
Died on Wednesday April 9th 2014
Everett De Roche
Australian screenwriter
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Al Feldstein
American writer and editor (Mad
Died on Tuesday April 29th 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
William Honan
American journalist and author
Died on Monday April 28th 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
Gerard Benson
British poet
Died on Monday April 28th 2014
Brock Brower
American writer
Died on Wednesday April 16th 2014
Peter Matthiessen
American author (At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Died on Saturday April 5th 2014
Philip Sugden
English historian and true crime writer (Jack the Ripper)
Died on Saturday April 26th 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
Mark Freidkin
Russian writer
Died on Tuesday March 4th 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
Richard Liboff
American physicist and author
Died on Sunday March 9th 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
Valentin Fortunov
Bulgarian writer
Died on Sunday March 9th 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
Alan Rodgers
American author and poet
Died on Saturday March 8th 2014
Ryhor Baradulin
Belarusian poet
Died on Sunday March 2nd 2014
Jonathan Schell
American author
Died on Tuesday March 25th 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
Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi
Iranian historian and author
Died on Tuesday March 25th 2014
Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy
Sierra Leonean poet
Died on Sunday March 16th 2014
Philippe Ebly
Belgian science fiction and fantasy writer
Died on Saturday March 1st 2014
Lorna Arnold
British nuclear historian and author
Died on Tuesday March 25th 2014
Bob Thomas
American journalist (Associated Press) and biographer
Died on Friday March 14th 2014
Ned O’Gorman
American poet
Died 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 writer
Died on Thursday March 13th 2014
Sir Thomas Hinde
British novelist
Died on Friday March 7th 2014
Roy Peter Martin
British author
Died on Sunday March 23rd 2014
Bill Knott
American poet
Died on Wednesday March 12th 2014
Musa Geshaev
Chechen poet
Died 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 writer
Died on Tuesday March 11th 2014
Manlio Sgalambro
Italian philosopher and writer
Died on Thursday March 6th 2014
Nenad Petrović
Serbian writer
Died on Friday March 21st 2014
Marga Spiegel
German writer
Died on Tuesday March 11th 2014
Peter Ruber
American author and editor
Died on Thursday March 6th 2014