Remembering Those We Lost in 2013

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

Richard Ben Cramer      1/7

Brenda Davies      1/9

Jon Beckmann      1/9

Evan Connell      1/10

Nina Ignatowicz 1/19

Richard G. Stern 1/24

Jakob Arjouni

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

Fredrick L. McKissack      4/28

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

Mark B. Read

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

Lila Perl

Hugh Nissenson      12/13

George Rodrigue      12/14

Janet Dailey      12/14

Paul Torday      12/18

Ned Vizzini      12/19

 

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