It’s time to remember the people whom the world of writing and publishing lost in the last year. Here are their names, along with, when available, a link to an obituary and the date of death.
Miller Williams, 1/1
Joan Peters, 1/5
Robert Stone, 1/10
Alice K. Turner, 1/17
Jack Leggett, 1/25
Rod McKuen, 1/29
Stewart Stern, 2/2
Martin Gilbert, 2/3
Anne Moody, 2/5
André Brink, 2/6
Assia Djebar, 2/7
David Carr, 2/12
Philip Levine, 2/14
Arnaud de Borchgrave, 2/15
Yasar Kemal, 2/28
Terry Pratchett, 3/12
Valentin Rasputin, 3/14
William B. Ewald Jr., 3/16
Ellen Conford, 3/20
Bill Jamison, 3/31
David A. Laventhol, 4/8
Ivan Doig, 4/9
Eduardo Galeano, 4/13
Elizabeth Brown Pryor, 4/13
Barbara Strauch, 4/15
Jonathan Lanman, 4/19
William Price Fox, 4/19
Frederic Morton, 4/20
M.H. Abrams, 4/21
Marcia Brown, 4/28
Ruth Rendell AKA Barbara Vine, 5/2
Joshua Ozersky, 5/4
William Zinsen, 5/12
Franz Wright, 5/14
Judith St. George, 6/10
Hilary Masters, 6/14
Nelson Doubleday Jr., 6/17
James Salter, 6/19
Theodore Weenier, 6/29
John A. Williams, 7/3
James Tate, 7/8
E.L. Doctorow, 7/21
Don Oferdorfer, 7/23
Ann Rule, 7/26
Alan Cheese, 7/31
David Nobbs, 8/8
Ann McGovern, 8/8
Oliver Sacks, 8/30
Warren Murphy, 9/4
Frank D. Gilroy, 9/12
Jackie Collins, 9/19
C. K. Williams, 9/20
Henning Mankell, 10/9
Gerald Gross, 10/14
Paul West, 10/18
Jerome Kass, 10/22
Dan Pointer, 11/3
René Girard, 11/4
Rena Wolner, 11/7
Madeline DeFrees, 11/11
Stephen Birmingham, 11/15
Arthur T. Hadley, 11/25
William McIlvanney, 12/5
Timothy Seldes, 12/5
Peter Dickinson, 12/16
Charles F. Harris, 12/16
