Christine Daure-Serfaty died at age 87
French human rights activist and writer Died on Wednesday May 28th 2014
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Carmen Alardín passed away at age 80
Mexican poet Died on Saturday May 10th 2014
Charles Marowitz passed away at age 80
American playwright Died on Friday May 2nd 2014
Maya Angelou dead at age 86
American author (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) Died on Wednesday May 28th 2014
Mary Stewart dead at age 97
British novelist (Merlin series) Died on Friday May 9th 2014
Howard Smith died at age 77
American columnist (The Village Voice) and filmmaker (Marjoe) Died on Thursday May 1st 2014
Malcolm MacDonald passes away at age 66
Scottish music critic Died on Tuesday May 27th 2014
Donald Kirkpatrick obituary: died at age 90
American academic and author Died on Friday May 9th 2014
Peggy O’Shea has died at age 91
American Daytime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (One Life to Live) Died on Thursday May 1st 2014
John Maginnis, died aged 66
American political writer Died on Sunday May 25th 2014
Mercedes Salisachs dies at age 97
Spanish writer Died on Thursday May 8th 2014
Richard Percival dies at age 99
English author Died on Thursday May 1st 2014
Lakshmi Kumari obituary: died at age 97
Indian author and politician Died on Saturday May 24th 2014
Leslie Thomas, died aged 83
Welsh author (The Virgin Soldiers) Died on Tuesday May 6th 2014
Obituary: Mark Elvins, dead at age 74
British priest and author Died on Thursday May 1st 2014
Michael Gottlieb passed away at age 69
American director and screenwriter (Mannequin Died on Friday May 23rd 2014
Obituary: Học Phi, dead at age 101
Vietnamese dramatist and scriptwriter Died on Tuesday May 6th 2014
Chou Meng-tieh dies at age 92
Taiwanese poet and writer Died on Thursday May 1st 2014
Matthew Cowles, died aged 69
American actor and playwright (All My Children Died on Thursday May 22nd 2014
Bud Osborn passed away at age 66
Canadian poet and activist Died on Tuesday May 6th 2014
Arthur Gelb dies at age 90
American newspaper editor and critic (The New York Times) Died on Tuesday May 20th 2014
Obituary: Farley Mowat, dead at age 92
Canadian author (People of the Deer Died on Tuesday May 6th 2014
Gabriel Kolko dies at age 81
American historian and author Died on Monday May 19th 2014
Obituary: Amik Kasoruho, dead at age 81
Albanian author and publicist Died on Monday May 5th 2014
Sam Greenlee obituary: died at age 83
American writer and filmmaker (The Spook Who Sat by the Door) Died on Monday May 19th 2014
Bohdan Skaradziński passed away at age 83
Polish writer and social activist Died on Sunday May 4th 2014
Dobrica Ćosić passes away at age 92
Serbian writer and politician Died on Sunday May 18th 2014
Helga Königsdorf dies at age 75
East German physicist and author Died on Sunday May 4th 2014
Steven H. dies at age 88
American film and television historian and critic Died on Saturday May 31st 2014
Matt Kailey died at age 59
American author and transgender activist Died on Saturday May 17th 2014
William Bender died at age 83
American entertainment critic and magazine editor (Time) Died on Sunday May 4th 2014
Death of Brajanath Ratha at age 78
Indian Oriya poet Died on Saturday May 31st 2014
Allan Folsom, died aged 72
American novelist (The Day After Tomorrow) Died on Friday May 16th 2014
Death of John Hartley at age 72
British poet Died on Saturday May 3rd 2014
Marilyn Beck dies at 85
American syndicated entertainment journalist and columnist Died on Saturday May 31st 2014
Hans Breidbach-Bernau dead at age 93
Austrian Olympic writer 1948 Died on Thursday May 15th 2014
Francisco Icaza has died at age 83
Mexican modernist artist and writer Died on Saturday May 3rd 2014
Seth Roberts dies at age 61
American psychologist and self-help author Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Albert Manent obituary: died at age 83
Spanish writer and activist Died on Monday April 14th 2014
Curtis Bill dies at 96
American journalist (Newsweek) and author Died on Friday April 4th 2014
Judith Pinsker, died aged 74
American television writer Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Crad Kilodney passes away at age 66
Canadian writer Died on Monday April 14th 2014
Prince Michael death at age 74
German author Died on Thursday April 3rd 2014
Patrick Dewes died at age 87
New Zealand sinologist and author Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Nina Cassian died at age 89
Romanian poet Died on Monday April 14th 2014
Régine Deforges dead at age 78
French author Died on Thursday April 3rd 2014
William Ash dies at age 96
American-born British Marxist writer Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Death of Reid Buckley at age 83
American novelist Died on Monday April 14th 2014
Andrei Bodiu passed away at age 48
Romanian poet Died on Thursday April 3rd 2014
Stefanie Zweig died at age 81
German writer (Nowhere in Africa) Died on Friday April 25th 2014
Michael Ruppert passes away at age 63
American author Died on Sunday April 13th 2014
Urs Widmer death at age 75
Swiss author Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Obituary: Tadeusz Różewicz, dead at age 92
Polish poet and playwright Died on Thursday April 24th 2014
Øystein Øystå obituary: died at age 79
Norwegian writer Died on Saturday April 12th 2014
Mahjoub Sharif dead at age 66
Sudanese poet and activist Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Obituary: Mark Shand, dead at age 62
British travel writer and conservationist Died on Wednesday April 23rd 2014
Pierre Autin-Grenier, died aged 67
French author Died on Saturday April 12th 2014
Vern Rutsala, died aged 80
American author and poet Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Eliza T. dead at age 72
American academic and author Died on Monday April 21st 2014
Sue Townsend obituary: died at age 68
British novelist and playwright (Adrian Mole series) Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Unnikrishnan Puthur, died aged 80
Indian novelist Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Junichi Watanabe passed away at age 80
Japanese writer (A Lost Paradise) Died on Wednesday April 30th 2014
Benedikt Sarnov dies at age 87
Russian author and literary critic Died on Sunday April 20th 2014
Gregory White has died at age 62
American biographer (Jackson Pollock: An American Saga) Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Miloš Mikeln passes away at age 83
Slovene writer Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Marsha Mehran dead at age 36
Iranian-born American author Died on Wednesday April 30th 2014
Alistair MacLeod dies at age 77
Canadian author Died on Sunday April 20th 2014
Doris Pilkington passed away at age 76
Australian author (Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence) Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Glyn Jones, died aged 82
South African writer and actor Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Daphne Pochin dies at 93
British author and photographer Died on Tuesday April 29th 2014
Erik Schmidt dies at age 88
Estonian painter and writer Died on Saturday April 19th 2014
Richard Hoggart dead at age 95
British academic and author (The Uses of Literacy) Died on Thursday April 10th 2014
Harris Goldsmith death at age 77
American pianist and critic Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
Al Feldstein dead at age 88
American writer and editor (Mad Died on Tuesday April 29th 2014
Sanford Jay passes away at age 59
American television comedy writer (Late Night with David Letterman) Died on Friday April 18th 2014
Obituary: Svetlana Velmar-Janković, dead at age 80
Serbian writer Died on Wednesday April 9th 2014
Everett De passes away at age 67
Australian screenwriter Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2014
William Honan dies at age 83
American journalist and author Died on Monday April 28th 2014
Death of Anthony Marriott at age 83
British actor and playwright Died on Thursday April 17th 2014
Karlheinz Deschner death at age 89
German writer and activist Died on Tuesday April 8th 2014
Gerard Benson death at age 83
British poet Died on Monday April 28th 2014
Gabriel García passed away at age 87
Colombian author (One Hundred Years of Solitude Died on Thursday April 17th 2014
Čedo Vuković, died aged 93
Montenegrin writer Died on Monday April 7th 2014
Philip Sugden death at age 67
English historian and true crime writer (Jack the Ripper) Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Brock Brower, died aged 82
American writer Died on Wednesday April 16th 2014
Peter Matthiessen died at age 86
American author (At Play in the Fields of the Lord Died on Saturday April 5th 2014
Paul Robeson, dies at age 86
American archivist and author Died on Saturday April 26th 2014
Rosemary Tonks passed away at age 85
British poet Died on Tuesday April 15th 2014
Muhammad Qutb dies at 95
Egyptian Islamist author and academic Died on Friday April 4th 2014
Sam McAughtry, died aged 91
Northern Irish writer and broadcaster Died on Friday March 28th 2014
Heather Robertson passed away at age 72
Canadian journalist (Winnipeg Free Press) and author Died on Wednesday March 19th 2014
Justus Pfaue has died at age 72
German author and screenwriter Died on Sunday March 9th 2014
Mark Freidkin dies at age 60
Russian writer Died on Tuesday March 4th 2014
Obituary: Barbara Halloran, dead at age 80
American cookbook author and columnist Died on Wednesday March 26th 2014
Lucius Shepard has died at age 70
American science fiction author Died on Tuesday March 18th 2014
Richard Liboff, died aged 82
American physicist and author Died on Sunday March 9th 2014
Sherwin B. dead at age 83
American National Book Award-winning author and surgeon Died on Monday March 3rd 2014
Warren Forma passed away at age 90
American documentary filmmaker and author Died on Wednesday March 26th 2014
Obituary: Donald Michael, dead at age 62
American occultist author and practitioner Died on Monday March 17th 2014