Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Richard O. Moore
American poet and filmmaker (Louisiana Diary)
Died on Wednesday March 25th 2015
Ramesh Chandra Bhanja
Indian Oriya poet
Died on Wednesday March 18th 2015
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Japanese manga author
Died on Saturday March 7th 2015
Alan Seymour
Australian playwright (The One Day of the Year)
Died on Monday March 23rd 2015
Miguel Donoso Pareja
Ecuadorian writer
Died on Monday March 16th 2015
Brian Sutton-Smith
New Zealand writer and play theorist
Died on Saturday March 7th 2015
Nick Peters
American journalist (Sacramento Bee) and baseball beat writer (San Francisco Giants)
Died on Monday March 23rd 2015
Kavitha Prasad Rallabandi
Indian poet and civil servant
Died on Sunday March 15th 2015
Ray Hatton
British-born American author
Died on Wednesday March 4th 2015
Herberto Hélder
Portuguese poet
Died on Monday March 23rd 2015
Curtis Gans
American activist and writer
Died on Sunday March 15th 2015
Ernest Braun
Austrian-born British academic and author
Died on Tuesday March 3rd 2015
Carlos Calderón Fajardo
Peruvian journalist and novelist
Died on Thursday April 30th 2015
Don Mankiewicz
American screenwriter (I Want to Live!)
Died on Sunday April 26th 2015
Richard West
British journalist and author
Died on Sunday April 26th 2015
Wang Guozhen
Chinese poet
Died on Monday April 27th 2015
Richard Corliss
American film critic
Died on Friday April 24th 2015
Kathrine Sorley Walker
English ballet critic
Died on Wednesday April 15th 2015
Yoichi Funado
Japanese novelist
Died on Thursday April 23rd 2015
M. H. Abrams
American literary critic
Died on Wednesday April 22nd 2015
Pat Dowell
American film critic
Died on Monday April 20th 2015
Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi
Egyptian poet
Died on Wednesday April 22nd 2015
Vilas Sarang
Indian author
Died on Wednesday April 15th 2015
Chris Plumridge
British golf writer
Died on Saturday April 4th 2015
Frederic Morton
Austrian-born American writer
Died on Tuesday April 21st 2015
William Price Fox
American novelist
Died on Monday April 20th 2015
Sandra Mackey
American writer
Died on Monday April 20th 2015
Barbara Strauch
American author and reporter (The New York Times)
Died on Thursday April 16th 2015
Ronald Hambleton
English-born Canadian broadcaster and music critic (Toronto Star)
Died on Saturday April 11th 2015
Gunilla Wolde
Swedish writer and illustrator.
Died on Thursday April 16th 2015
Klaus Bednarz
German journalist and writer
Died on Wednesday April 15th 2015
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
American author and historian
Died on Tuesday April 14th 2015
Günter Grass
German novelist
Died on Tuesday April 14th 2015
François Maspero
French writer and traducer
Died on Sunday April 12th 2015
Jehan Rajab
Kuwaiti author
Died on Monday April 6th 2015
Klaus Rifbjerg
Danish writer (Anna
Died on Sunday April 5th 2015
Traute Foresti
Austrian poet and actress
Died on Saturday April 4th 2015
Algirdas Vaclovas Patackas
Lithuanian politician and poet
Died on Saturday April 4th 2015
Andrew Porter
British music critic
Died on Saturday April 4th 2015
Manoel de Oliveira
Portuguese film director and screenwriter
Died on Friday April 3rd 2015
Stanisław Pestka
Polish Kashubian poet
Died on Friday April 3rd 2015
Barbara Sass
Polish film director and screenwriter
Died on Friday April 3rd 2015
Cynthia Lennon
British author
Died on Thursday April 2nd 2015
Jayakanthan
Indian Tamil author
Died on Thursday April 9th 2015
Patrick H. Adkins
American fantasy author
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2015
Naomi Wilzig
American writer and museum owner (World Erotic Art Museum Miami)
Died on Wednesday April 8th 2015
Maurice Hurley dead at age 75
Maurice Hurley, an American television writer and producer,
died on February 24, 2015, aged 75. He was best known for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and in…