It’s time again to remember those people from the worlds of writing and publishing who left us during the past year. As always, this year’s list is much too long.
Here are their names, listed chronologically and with, when available, date of death and a link to an obituary.
Gerda Lerner 1/2
Brenda Davies 1/9
Jon Beckmann 1/9
Evan Connell 1/10
Nina Ignatowicz 1/19
Richard G. Stern 1/24
Marion Vuilleumier 1/29
George Lovitt 2/6
Ronald Dworkin 2/14
Otfried Preussler 2/18
Dan deLellis 3/17
Henry Bromell 3/18
James Herbert 3/20
Chinua Achebe 3/21
Daniel Hoffman 3/30
Basil Copper 4/3
Marilyn Abel 4/5
Peter Workman 4/7
A.S.A. Harrison 4/10
E.L. Konigsburg 4/19
John A. Ware 4/27
William Demby 5/23
Jack Vance 5/26
Rev. Andrew Greeley 5/29
Tom Sharpe 6/6
Iain Banks 6/9
Herbert Nagourney 6/12
Vince Flynn 6/19
Kim Thompson 6/19
Richard Matheson 6/23
Curtis Harnack 7/5
Marc Simont 7/13
Lindy Hess 7/13
Helen Thomas 7/20
Leighton Gage 7/27
John Graves 7/31
Barbara Mertz (AKA Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters) 8/8
Carl D. Brandt 8/13
John Hollander 8/17
Albert Murray 8/18
Elmore Leonard 8/20
Seamus Heaney 8/30
Frederik Pohl 9/2
Ann Crispin 9/6
Les Plesko 9/16
Marcel Reich-Ranicki 9/18
Robert Barnard 9/19
D. J. R. Bruckner 9/20
Carolyn Cassady 9/20
Álvaro Mutis 9/22
Christopher Koch 9/23
James A. Emanuel 9/27
Tom Clancy 10/1
Oscar Hijuelos 10/12
William Harrison 10/22
Michael Palmer 10/30
Gérard de Villiers 10/31
Barbara Park 11/15
Louis D. Rubin, Jr. 11/16
Doris Lessing 11/17
Charlotte Zolotow 11/19
Ahmed Fouad Negm 12/3
Colin Wilson 12/5
Hugh Nissenson 12/13
George Rodrigue 12/14
Janet Dailey 12/14
Paul Torday 12/18
Ned Vizzini 12/19
