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2005 Shelby Foote, American Author

2005 Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux Author

2005 Robert Sheckley, American Author

2005 Humphrey Carpenter, English Author

2004 Alistair Cooke, radio commentator/author, Masterpiece Theater, dies at 95

2003 Carol Shields, Canadian Author

2003 Carol Shields, author, The Stone Diaries, dies at 68

2003 Kathleen Winsor, American Author

2003 Paul Zindel, playwright/YA author, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, dies at 66

2003 Adam Osborne, Author

2002 Walter Lord, American Author

2002 Jack Henry Abbott, American Author

2001 Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, dies at 66

2001 Auberon Waugh, British Author

2000 Edward Gorey, author, Amphigorey, dies at 75

2000 Craig Claiborne, food author, New York Times, dies at 79

2000 Patrick O'Brian, author of sea-faring novels, Aubrey-Maturin series, dies at 85

1999 Sarah Delany, author/teacher, Having Our Say, dies at 109

1998 Allen Drury, author/journalist, Advise and Consent, dies at 80

1998 Kay Thompson, American Author

1998 Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist/author, dies at 108

1998 Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at 69

1998 Jo Clayton, author, Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58

1998 Jo Clayton, author, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58

1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record

1997 James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90

1997 William S. Burroughs, author, Naked Lunch, dies at 83

1997 Helene Hanff, author, 84 Charing Cross Road, dies at 80

1996 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85

1996 Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90

1996 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86

1996 William George Rushton, actor (TW3)/author/cartoonist, dies at 59

1996 Michael Bentine, British author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74

1996 James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66

1996 Jessica Lucy Mitford, author, dies at 78

1996 Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast, dies at 77

1996 Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81

1996 William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83

1996 Idries Shah, Indian Author

1995 Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69

1995 Robertson Davies (author), dies at 82

1995 Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies at 84

1995 Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies of pneumonia at 84

1995 Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53

1995 Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73

1995 Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a stroke at 82

1995 Elleston Trevor, author, dies

1995 Stanley Elkin, American Author

1995 Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67

1995 Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90

1995 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50

1995 Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81

1995 Russell Reading Braddon, author, dies at 74

1995 Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter/author, dies at 81

1995 Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author, dies at 80

1995 Helene Weijel, author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44

1995 James Herriot, Scot author (All Creatures Great and Small), dies at 78

1995 Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author (L'Honneur de la Tribu), dies at 49

1995 Arthur S Taylor Jr, U.S. drummer/author (Notes on notes), dies at 65

1995 Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70

1995 George Woodcock, author, dies at 82

1995 Jean Tardieu, author, dies at 91

1995 Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author, dies at 48

1995 Rose Kennedy, American Author

1995 Ellis Peters, British Author

1994 Hans Berghuis, author and poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70

1994 Sadi de Gorter, Dutch author/diplomat (Abscess), dies at 82

1994 Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Neth/South African economist/author, dies

1994 Ronald Ridout, school textbook author, dies at 78

1994 Lesley Peacock, jazz photogrpaher/author, dies

1994 David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37

1994 Nyanaponika, [Siegmund Feniger), German scholar/author, dies at 93

1994 Juliette Lady Huxley Baillot, author, dies at 96

1994 Jessie Kesson, author, dies at 77

1994 Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66

1994 Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46

1994 Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85

1994 James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-Pan), dies at 69

1994 James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69

1994 Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71

1994 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70

1994 Ladislav Fuks, Czech author (Theodore Mundstock), dies at 70

1994 Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74

1994 Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89

1994 Elias Canetti, Swiss Author

1994 Aartje W. "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, dies at 93

1994 Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96

1994 James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52

1994 Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies

1994 A "Bob" den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93

1994 Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author, dies at 90

1994 John Barrington Wain, author, dies at 69

1994 Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81

1994 Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74

1994 Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30

1994 Samuel Selvon, author, dies at 70

1994 Ralph Ellison, American Author

1994 Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59

1994 Robert Shea, author, dies of cancer

1994 Charles Bukowski, author and poet, dies of leukemia at 73

1994 Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61

1993 Margaret Landon, U.S. author (Anna and the King of Siam), dies at 90

1993 Erich Leinsdorf, Austria/US conductor/author (Cadenza), dies at 81

1993 Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88

1993 Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72

1993 Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31

1993 Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95

1993 Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed), dies at 91

1993 William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81

1993 Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61

1993 Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author

1993 Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author (Heir, dies at 85

1993 John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78

1993 Fletcher Knebel, author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81

1993 Agatha Hagtingius-Seger, Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91

1993 Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author, dies at 75

1993 Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50

1992 Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77

1992 Audre Lorde, St. Croix' feminist author (Black Unicorn), dies

1992 William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92

1992 James Marshall, illustrator/author (The Stupids), dies at 50

1992 Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62

1992 Mary Norton, children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88

1992 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, U.S. author (American Glass Animals), dies

1992 U.S. actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone

1992 M F K Fisher, cook book author, dies of Parkinson Disease at 83

1992 Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies

1992 Lee Salk, baby doctor/author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65

1992 Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72

1992 Anita Colby, U.S. model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77

1992 Jacob "Bob" de Uyl, journalist/author (Restless Travel), dies at 61

1991 Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Phila

1991 Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45

1991 Theodore Geisel, author (Dr. Seuss), dies of cancer at 87

1991 Gerome Ragal, author (Hair), dies of cancer at 48

1991 Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77

1991 Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57

1991 Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81

1990 Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years

1990 Horst Bienek, German author, dies

1990 Renate Rubinstein, author/columnist (Tamar), dies

1990 Roald Dahl, Br short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74

1990 K L Poll, journalist/author, dies

1990 Anya Seton, U.S. author, dies

1990 Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Mount Olive), dies at 78

1990 Norman Maclean, American Author

1990 Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74

1990 Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70

1990 Hugh MacLennan, Canadian Author

1990 Robert F Adams, U.S., sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57

1989 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87

1989 Mary McCarthy, author (Group), dies, at 77

1989 Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest

1989 Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81

1989 Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62

1989 U.S. authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"

1988 Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86

1988 Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69

1988 Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82

1988 Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83

1988 Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies

1987 [Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60

1987 Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing

1987 Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84

1987 James A. Baldwin, American Author

1987 Jean Helion, artist/author (Museum of Living Art), dies at 83

1987 Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83

1987 Alfred Bester, sci-fi author (Dark Side of Earth), dies at 73

1987 Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75

1987 Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukraine architect/author (Soldiers), dies at 76

1987 Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71

1987 C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76

1987 Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60

1987 Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91

1986 Gardner F[rancis] Fox, author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75

1986 Jorge Luis Borges, Arg author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86

1986 Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80

1986 Simone de Beauvoir, French author (Deuxieme Sexe), dies at 86

1986 Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), dies at 82

1986 Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65

1986 L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard, author (Death Quest), dies at 74

1986 Virginia C. Andrews, American Author

1986 Marcel Arland, French author (L'ordre, Lumiere du Soir), dies at 86

1985 Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, U.S., sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85

1985 French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature

1985 Charlotte White, U.S. author (New Yorker, Charlotte's Web), dies at 86

1985 Italo Calvino, sci-fi author (T-Zero, Mr. Palomar), dies at 61

1985 Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67

1985 Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick and Jane), dies

1984 Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74

1984 Laurie Langenbach, author, dies at 37

1984 Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies at 59

1984 Rudolf Hagelstange, German author (Zeit fur ein Lacheln), dies at 72

1984 A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72

1983 Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78

1983 Benjamin V Cohen, U.S. author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88

1983 Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65

1983 Rebecca West, Irish Author

1983 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65

1982 Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80

1982 Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80

1982 John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining

1982 Mario Praz, Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85

1982 Philip K[indred] Dick, author (Hugo-1963, Dr. Futurity), dies at 53

1981 Will Durant, U.S. author (story of civilization), dies at 96

1981 Ariel Durant, U.S. author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83

1981 Anita Loos, U.S. (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88

1981 D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65

1981 A[rchibald] J[oseph] Cronin, physician/author (Citadel), dies at 84

1980 Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors), dies at 83

1980 Katherine A Porter, U.S. author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90

1980 Henry Miller, American Author

1980 Anna van Wageningen-Salomons, Dut author (Unspoilt Dream), dies at 94

1980 Joy Adamson, author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69

1979 Jean Stafford, U.S. author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63

1978 Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78

1978 Nicolas Bentley, British Author

1978 Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], author (Ginger Star), dies at 62

1978 Faith Baldwin, U.S. author (They Who Love), dies at 84

1978 Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73

1978 Vitorino Nemesio, Portuguese author (Presenea), dies at 76

1977 Harriet Freezer, Dutch journalist/author, dies at 66

1977 HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78

1977 Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies

1977 Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize

1977 Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, U.S., sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72

1976 Andre Malraux, [Berger], author (Conquerors)/min of Culture, dies

1976 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974), dies at 76

1976 Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85

1976 Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47

1976 Lin Yutang, Chinese Author

1976 Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66

1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53

1975 James Blish, American Author

1975 James [Benjamin] Blish, sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader), dies at 54

1975 William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78

1975 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961), dies at 82

1975 Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75

1975 Laszlo Nemeth, Hungarian physician/author (Galilei/Iszony), dies at 73

1975 Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77

1974 Amy Vanderbilt, U.S. author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66

1974 Hugues Panassie, French jazz saxophonist/author, dies at 62

1974 Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Angry Angel), dies at 83

1974 Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 53

1974 Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi politician, dies at 67

1974 Par Lagerkvist, Swedish author (Dwarf, Nobel 1951), dies at 83

1974 Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48

1973 Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75

1973 Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91

1973 M Revis, [Willem Fisherman), author (People that Mutiny), dies at 68

1973 Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), dies at 80

1973 Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67

1972 Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91

1972 Henry M de Montherlant, French author (Port Royal), dies at 76

1972 Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist, dies at 63

1972 Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76

1972 Adriaan J. Zoetmulder, author/director, Eindhovens Newspaper

1972 Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72

1972 Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65

1972 Edgar P Snow, U.S. author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66

1972 Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author

1971 Walter Van Tilburg Clark, U.S. author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62

1971 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72

1971 Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82

1971 Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at 79

1970 Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91

1970 French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia

1970 Jan Drda, Czech author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55

1970 Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45

1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1970 John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68

1970 Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78

1970 Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61

1970 Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72

1970 Napolean Hill, American Author

1969 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67

1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union

1969 Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies

1969 Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies

1969 Leonard Woolf, British Author

1969 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64

1969 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (La Peur), dies at 73

1969 Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84

1969 Max Eastman, American Author

1969 Rudolf Pannwitz, German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87

1969 John Wyndham, [Parkes Lucas B Harris], author (Chrysalids), dies at 65

1969 Sarah Vowell, American Author

1969 Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83

1968 John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66

1968 Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70

1968 Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81

1968 Upton B Sinclair, U.S. author (Jungle), dies at 90

1968 Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies

1968 Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78

1968 Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47

1968 Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82

1968 Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author: Don Camillo/Peppone, dies at 60

1968 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76

1968 Helen Keller, blind and deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87

1968 Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71

1968 Edna Ferber, author (American Beauty), dies at 78

1968 Edna Ferber, U.S. author (Giant, Showboat), dies at 80

1968 Fannie Hurst, U.S. author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78

1968 Warren Ellis, British Author

1967 Manuel A Fraai, Curaeaos author (Silly Aguero), dies at 70

1967 French author Regis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia

1967 Carson McCullers, U.S. author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50

1967 Esther Forbes, American Author

1967 Albertine Sarrazin, French author (La Traversiere), dies at 29

1967 Bruce Barton, American Author

1967 Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies

1967 Poppy Z. Brite, American Author

1967 J Langston Hughes, U.S. author (Tambourines to Glory), dies at 65

1967 French author Regis Debray caught in Bolivia

1967 Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4 years

1967 Meg Cabot, American Author

1966 Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88

1966 Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle and Blessing), dies at 75

1966 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53

1966 Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Prayer for a Good End), dies at 70

1966 Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66

1966 Mari Sandoz, U.S. author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64

1966 Author Valery Tarsis banished in U.S.S.R.

1966 Kathleen Norris, U.S. author, dies at 85

1966 Sarah Zettel, American Author

1965 William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91

1965 Alexander King, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 66

1965 E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, sci-fi author (Triplanetary), dies at 75

1965 Joel Rane, author, Step on Up

1965 Shirley Hardie Jackson, U.S. author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45

1965 J. K. Rowling, English Author

1965 Chris A. Bridges, American Author

1965 Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57

1965 Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76

1965 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70

1965 Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies at 62

1965 Kevin Williamson, American Author

1965 George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65

1964 Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77

1964 Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher/author (Bartje), dies at 60

1964 H[enry] Beam Piper, U.S., sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60

1964 French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize

1964 Tavis Smiley, American Author

1964 Dan Brown, American Author

1964 Margaret Haddix, American Author

1964 Rachel L Carson, U.S. biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56

1964 A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day and Night), dies at 46

1964 Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67

1963 Aldous L Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon), dies at 69

1963 C[live] S[taples] Lewis, [Hamilton], author (Silver Chair), dies at 64

1963 William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87

1963 C. S. Lewis, English Author

1963 Elsa Maxwell, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80

1963 Jean Cocteau, French author (La Voie Humaine), dies at 73

1963 Eugene Baie, Belgian author (Le siecle of Gueux), dies at 89

1963 William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies

1963 Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64

1962 Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62

1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature

1962 Tammy Bruce, American Author

1962 Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85

1962 Herman Hesse, German Author

1962 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62

1962 Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79

1961 Edwin "Rick" Bakker, Dutch author: Rick's Report, AIDS Diary

1961 Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64

1961 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author, dies at 97

1961 Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65

1961 Tom Holt, Author

1961 Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68

1961 J H F Gronloh, [Nescio], author (Above the Vale), dies at 80

1961 Jim Goad, Australian Author

1961 Daniel Clowes, American Author

1961 Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Fren physician/author/anti-semite, dies at 67

1961 Dashiell Hammett, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66

1960 Richard N Wright, U.S. author (Native son), dies at 52 in Paris France

1960 Neil Gaiman, British Author

1960 Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63

1960 Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet (North-South), dies at 70

1960 Nevil Shute [Norway], Eng/Aust author (Town like Alice), dies at 60

1960 Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46

1960 Chris van Abkoude, author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about 79

1959 Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68

1958 Fjodor W. Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75

1958 Warner Fabian, [S Adams], U.S. author (Great American Fraud), dies at 87

1958 Theodore Krieger, German author (Forgotten Village), dies at 61

1958 Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author, dies at 62

1958 Meredith Ann Pierce, U.S., sci-fi author, Darkangel

1958 Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93

1958 Francis Carco(pino), French author/critic (L'homme traque), dies at 71

1958 Dorothy Straight, 4 year old author, How World Begun

1958 Magdalene Szekely-Lulofs, author (Our Italian Employees), dies at 58

1958 Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42

1958 Cornelia Funke, German Author

1958 Marie Carmichael Stopes, Scottish Author

1957 Susan Powter, diet guru/author/talk show host, Susan Powter Show

1957 Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64

1957 Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

1957 Margot SE Scharten-Antink, author (Catherina/Sprotje), dies at 88

1957 Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies

1957 Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author, Project Mankind

1957 Lord Dunsany, [Edward J M D Plunkett], author (Jorkens), dies at 79

1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

1957 Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59

1957 Marie C of Zeggelen, author (Dessajongen), dies at 87

1957 Faye Resnick, author, Nicole Brown Simpson-Private Diary

1957 Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder (Sturm), dies at 78

1957 Christopher Morley, American Author

1957 Wyndham Lewis, English Author

1957 Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90

1957 Valery Larbaud, French author/novelist/writer (Amants), dies at 75

1957 Eric S. Raymond, American Author

1956 Jeanne Cappe, Belgian author (Tres Grand Cardinal), dies at about 61

1956 Michael Connelly, American Author

1956 Giovanni Papini, Italian author and poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75

1956 Anthony Bourdain, American Author

1956 Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw, U.S., sci-fi author, Hawk of May

1956 Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russ author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54

1956 David Guterson, American Author

1956 A. A. Milne, English Author

1955 Tracy [Raye] Hickman, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragons of Spring Dawning

1955 Connie Palmen, Dutch author/widow of Ischa Me˜er

1955 Steven Brust, [Karl Zoltan], U.S., sci-fi author, Yendi, Jhereg

1955 W H van Eemlandt, [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies

1955 Timothy Garton Ash, British Author

1955 Judith Tarr, U.S., sci-fi author, Isle of Glass, Ars Magica

1955 Jay McInerney, author, Bright Lights, Big City

1954 James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54

1954 Mike Ratledge, author, 2DAY and NEWDAY, /ratledgm@spawar.navy.mil

1954 Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31

1954 Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Froken Liwin), dies at 78

1954 Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, U.S., sci-fi author, Enigma, Empery

1954 Lawrence Watt-Evans, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Sword of Bheleu

1954 Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67

1954 Bruce Sterling, U.S., sci-fi author, Involution Ocean, Schismatrix

1954 Dean Inge, English Author

1954 Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author, Wasp Factory

1954 Michael Bergdahl, American Author

1954 Sandra Cisneros, American Author

1954 Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese Author

1953 Jennifer Roberson, U.S., sci-fi author, Shapechangers, Sword-Maker

1953 Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82

1953 Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79

1953 Yoko Shimada, Kumamota Japan, author, Kir Royal, /actress, Shogun

1953 Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author, dies at 93

1953 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60

1953 John Shirley, U.S., sci-fi author, Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona

1953 Hans Aanrud, Norwegian author (Storken), dies at 89

1952 Somtow Sucharitkul, [SP Somtow], Thailand, science fiction author, Utopia Hunters

1952 Mel Smith, author, Morons From Outer Space

1952 Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author, dies at 82

1952 Robert R[ick] McCammon, U.S., sci-fi author, Baal, Mystery Walk

1952 Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author, Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne

1952 Diane E[lizabeth] Duane, U.S., sci-fi author, Door into Fire

1952 Alice Hoffman, American Author

1952 Douglas Adams, born in England, author, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1952 Tim[othy] Powers, U.S., sci-fi author, Epitaph in Rust, Night Moves

1951 Charles de Lint, Neth, sci-fi author, Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow

1951 Louis Pierard, Belgian journalist/author (London sketches), dies at 65

1951 Nicholas Yermakov, U.S., sci-fi author, Epiphany, Jehad, Clique

1951 Timothy Zahn, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Cobra Strike

1951 Orson Scott Card, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War

1951 Greg[ory Dale] Bear, U.S., sci-fi author, 2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity

1951 Emmet Fox, American Author

1951 James Norman Hall, American Author

1951 Suze Orman, American Author

1951 Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65

1951 Roxanne Pulitzer, born in Glendale California, author, Prize Pulitzer

1951 Terry McMillan, American Author

1951 Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51

1951 Frans Kellendonk, author, Ruin, The Good for Nothing

1950 Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Caverns, Reefs, Lava

1950 Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83

1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94

1950 Fran Lebowitz, author/actress, Resident Alien

1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay, American Author

1950 David Brin, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Sundiver, Postman

1950 Carel P de Haseth, Curaeaos author/publisher, Bida after kolo

1950 James P[aul] Blaylock, U.S., sci-fi author, Elfin Ship, Homunculus

1950 Helene Weijel, author, In the Street Without a Coat

1950 Peggy Noonan, author, What I Saw at the Revolution

1950 Mercedes R. Lackey, U.S., sci-fi author, Arrow's Fall, Magic's Pawn

1950 Mercedes Lackey, American Author

1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74

1950 M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76

1950 Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slavic author (Jamnica), dies at 56

1950 Harry Blomberg, Swedish author (Jacobs Drom), dies at 56

1950 Gloria Naylor, U.S. author, Women of Brewster Place

1950 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Author

1950 George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46

1950 Nora Roberts, American Author

1949 R[oberta] A[nn] MacAvoy, U.S., sci-fi author, Damiano's Lute, Raphael

1949 Mary Gordon, U.S., author

1949 Gayl Jones, U.S. author and poet, Corregidora, Song for Anninho

1949 Peter Ackroyd, British Author

1949 Martin Amis, British Author

1949 Joyce Brothers, psychologist/author/columnist

1949 Chris Van Allsburg, American Author

1949 Sigrid Undset, Norse author (Olav Audunsson, Nobel 1928), dies at 67

1949 Ken Follet, Welsh Author

1949 Graham Swift, British Author

1949 Christopher Hitchens, American Author

1949 Larry Wall, Canadian Author

1949 Elizabeth George, American Author

1949 Hervey Allen, American Author

1949 Jonathan Carroll, American Author

1948 Spider Robinson, Canada, sci-fi author, 3 Hugo, Callahan's Secret

1948 Bokke RS Pollema journalist/author (Lock of hair and l˜en), dies at 65

1948 George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, U.S., sci-fi author, Wild Cards

1948 Lynn/Marilyn [Lorraine] Abbey, U.S., sci-fi author, Black Flame

1948 Vonda N[eel] McIntyre, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Trek II, III, IV

1948 Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author, Ghost Dance, Labyrinth

1948 Brian M[ichael] Stableford, UK, sci-fi author, Day of Wrath

1948 Ian Mcewan, British Author

1948 Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57

1948 Terry Pratchett, English Author

1948 Terry Prachett, English Author

1948 Dan Simmons, American Author

1948 Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge, U.S., sci-fi author, 2 Hugos, Dune

1948 Pamela Sargent, U.S., sci-fi author, Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives

1948 William Gibson, born in Canada, sci-fi author, Neuromancer, Count Zero

1948 Margaret [Edith] Weis, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragons of Spring Dawning

1948 Patricia [Anne] McKillip, U.S., sci-fi author, Fool's Run

1948 Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38

1948 Dick Morris, American Author

1948 Lynn Abbey, American Author

1947 Brian C Daley, U.S., sci-fi author, Exploits of Han Solo, Tron

1947 St-Georges de Bouchelier, Fr author (Children's Carnival), dies at 71

1947 Wolfgang Borchert, German author (Draussen vor of the Tur), dies at 26

1947 Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82

1947 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66

1947 Stephen King, U.S., sci-fi author, Carrie, Shining, Kujo

1947 Tanith Lee, UK, sci-fi author, Don't Bite the Sun

1947 Willy Russell, author/playwright, Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita

1947 Daniele Steel, New York City, author, Rememberance, Zoya, Star, Daddy

1947 Octavia E[stelle] Butler, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Wild Seed

1947 Linda Chavez, American Author

1947 Sara Paretsky, American Author

1947 Stephen R. Donaldson, U.S., sci-fi author, Lord Foul's Bane

1947 Willa Cather, American Author

1947 Robert Kiyosaki, American Author

1947 James Patterson, American Author

1947 Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author

1947 Paul Auster, U.S. author, poet and director, Mr Vertigo, Smoke

1947 Arthur Machen, Welsh Author

1947 George Alec Effinger, U.S., sci-fi author, Nick of Time

1947 Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71

1946 Alan Dean Foster, U.S., sci-fi author, Midworld, Flinx in Flux

1946 Herman de Man, [Salomon H Hamburger], author/Radio Orange, dies

1946 Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author

1946 Jerome Corsi, American Author

1946 Humphrey Carpenter, English Author

1946 H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79

1946 H. G. Wells, English Author

1946 Gertrude Stein, American Author

1946 Gertrude Stein, US/Fren author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72

1946 Michael Shea, U.S., sci-fi author, Fat Face, Polyphemus

1946 Robert Asprin, American Author

1946 Elizabeth A. Lynn, U.S., sci-fi author, Watchtower, Red Hawk

1946 Janet E[llen] Morris, U.S., sci-fi author, Golden Sword, Tempus

1946 Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, U.S., sci-fi author, Wetware

1946 Phyllis Eisenstein, U.S., sci-fi author, Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile

1945 Mogens Klitgaard, Danish author (Brunkul), dies at 39

1945 Karl Edward Wagner, U.S., sci-fi author, Bloodstone, Night Winds

1945 Rachid Mimouni, author

1945 Michael Bishop, U.S., sci-fi author, Nebula, Stolen Faces

1945 Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes

1945 David A[llen] Drake, U.S., sci-fi author, Cross the Stars, Rolling Hot

1945 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer

1945 Margot Asquith, English Author

1945 Dean Koontz, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Quest, Beastchild

1945 Mark J. Green, born in Brooklyn, New York, lawyer and author, Closed Enterprise System

1945 Elizabeth Moon, American Author

1945 Douglas R Hofstadter, New York City, author, Godel, Escher, Bach

1945 [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], UK, sci-fi author, High Kings

1945 Tracy Kidder, American Author

1945 Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Fatalit ), dies at 74

1945 Barry Holstein Lopez, U.S. author, Of Wolves and Men

1945 Barry Lopez, American Author

1944 Jack L[aurence] Chalker, U.S., sci-fi author, Saga of Well World

1944 Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, dies at 43

1944 Claudia Dreifus, interviewer/author, 7 Stories

1944 Katherine Kurtz, UK, sci-fi author, Deryni Rising, Saint Camber

1944 Vernor [Steffen] Vinge, U.S., sci-fi author, Witling, True Names

1944 Glen [Charles] Cook, U.S., sci-fi author, Shadowline, Star's End

1944 Janet Dailey, U.S., author

1944 Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies

1944 Betsy Finley Ashton, broadcast journalist/author/lecturer

1944 Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80

1944 Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, U.S., sci-fi author, Jaws of Menx

1944 Benjamin Cremieux, French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55

1944 David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52

1944 Richard Ford, U.S. author, Sportswriter

1944 Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested

1944 David Gerrold, [Jerrold David Friedman], author, World of Star Trek

1944 Jack Henry Abbott, American Author

1944 Terry Brooks, U.S., sci-fi author, Sword of Shannara

1944 Henry Kravis, author, The Money Machine

1943 John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22

1943 Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38

1943 Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author

1943 Mick Farren, UK, sci-fi author, Synaptic Manhunt, Citizen Phaid

1943 A[braham] [P] Merritt, author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), dies at 58

1943 Nelson DeMille, American Author

1943 Joe [William] Haldeman, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Worlds Apart

1943 Joe Haldeman, American Author

1943 Ian Watson, born in UK, sci-fi author, Book of Being, Whores of Babylon

1943 Ewald Vanvugt, author, Kiss of Delight, Seed of Love

1943 Leo Frankowski, U.S., sci-fi author, High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord

1942 Joe McGinniss, Rye, New York, author, Selling of President 1968

1942 John Crowley, U.S., sci-fi author, Deep, Beasts, Novelty

1942 Shere Hite, author/sex therapist

1942 Donna Leon, American Author

1942 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, U.S., sci-fi author, Hotel Transylvania

1942 Nancy Ann Dibble, Netherlands, sci-fi author, Summerfair

1942 C[arolyn] J[anice] Cherry, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Faded Sun Trilogy

1942 Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer, Titanic in 1985

1942 James Topping, author of CP/M

1942 [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69

1942 Barry B[rookes] Longyear, U.S., sci-fi author, City of Baraboo

1942 Kitty Kelley, author, Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

1942 Samuel R[ay] Delany, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Towers of Toron, Neveryona

1942 Erica Jong, born in New York City, author, Fear of Flying

1942 Jacqueline Lichtenberg, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy

1942 Paul Preuss, U.S., sci-fi author, Medusa Encounter, Starfire

1942 Michael D[iamond] Resnick, sci-fi author, Sideshow, Eros Ascending

1942 Adriaan van Dis, author/TV-host, Nathan Sid, In Africa

1941 Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author

1941 Daniel Manus Pinkwater, U.S., sci-fi author, Magic Moscow

1941 Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46

1941 Anne Rice, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, author, Interview with a Vampire

1941 James P[atrick] Hogan, UK, sci-fi author, Giants' Star

1941 Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies

1941 Michael Pennington, actor/author, Return of Sherlock Holmes

1941 Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn

1941 Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/author, Mussert

1941 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59

1941 Virginia Woolf, British Author

1941 Alice May Brock, author

1941 Stephen Dobyns, U.S. author and poet, Cold Dog Soup

1941 Daniel Pinkwater, Author

1940 F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44

1940 Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist

1940 Alfonso Hernandez Cata, Cuban author (El parage), dies

1940 Maxine Hong Kingston, U.S., author

1940 Frances FitzGerald, New York City, journalist/author, Fire in the Lake

1940 George Greenstein, author, Secret of a Jewish Baker

1940 Timothy Severin, author/explorer

1940 Norman [Richard] Spinrad, U.S., sci-fi author, Child of Fortune

1940 Norman Spinrad, American Author

1940 Marie Bregendahl, Danish author (& dodsnat), dies at 72

1940 Abbas Kiarostami, author/director, Under the Olive Trees, Close Up

1940 Joseph Brodsky, U.S.S.R., author, Less than 1, Nobel 1987

1940 Emma Goldman, U.S. anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies

1940 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56

1940 Richard Monaco, U.S., sci-fi author, Grail War, Final Quest

1940 Jeffrey Archer, born in England, Tory-Commons, /author, Matter of Honor

1940 Russell Banks, American Author

1940 Selma O Lagerlof, Swed author (Nils Holgersson, Nobel-09), dies at 81

1940 Thomas M[ichael] Disch, U.S., sci-fi author, Genocides, 102 H-Bombs

1939 Michael J Moorcock, England, sci-fi author, Alien Heat, Bull and Spear

1939 Margaret E Atwood, author and poet

1939 Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author, Revelations, Beyond Apollo

1939 M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster, U.S., sci-fi author, Gameplayers of Zan

1939 Christina Crawford, author, Joan's daughter, Mommie Dearest

1939 Ken Follett, spy author, Eye of the Needle

1939 Margaret Drabble, British author, Needle's Eye

1939 Amos Oz, Jerusalem Israel, author, My Michael

1939 Alfredo Panzini, Ital author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75

1939 Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57

1939 Jim Bouton, born in Newark, New Jersey, pitcher, New York Yankees, author of Ball Four

1939 Adam Osborne, Author

1939 Jo Clayton, U.S., sci-fi author, Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters

1939 Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, U.S., sci-fi author, Spider Jane, Heart's Blood

1939 Rachel English, London, author, My 1st 500

1939 Germaine Greer, born in Melbourne, Australia, feminist/author, Female Eunich

1939 Auberon Waugh, British Author

1939 Charles Alexander Eastman, American Author

1939 Charles Eastman, Sioux Author

1938 Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator

1938 Karel Capek, Czech author/antifascist (Bila Nemoc), dies at 48

1938 Judith Martin, author/journalist/columnist, Miss Manners

1938 Frederick Forsyth, author, Day of the Jackal, Deceiver, Odessa File

1938 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67

1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal, kid books author

1938 Margaret Forster, British Author

1938 Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green and Gray), dies at 75

1938 Henry Newbolt, English Author

1938 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man and Mark), dies at 65

1938 David Irving, British Author

1938 Michael J[oseph] Kurland, U.S., sci-fi author, Infernal Device

1938 Ishmael Reed, U.S., author, Last Days of Louisiana Red

1938 Otto zur Linde, German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64

1938 Judy Blume, author, Wifey

1938 John Bellairs, U.S., sci-fi author, Chessmen of Doom

1938 Stewart Brand, American Author

1937 John [Thomas] Sladek, U.S., sci-fi author, Tik-Tok, Bugs

1937 Brian Lumley, England, sci-fi author, Compleat Crow, Psychomech

1937 Gail Sheehy, author, Hustling

1937