Individual
|
Background
|
Date of Death
|
Age
|
Cause of Death
|
Ref.
|
Zheng Min
|
Chinese poet
|
January 3
|
101
|
|
[83]
|
F. Sionil José
|
Filipino novelist and journalist
|
January 6
|
97
|
|
[84]
|
Terry Teachout
|
American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist
|
January 13
|
65
|
|
[85][86]
|
Ron Goulart
|
American author of Groucho Marx mysteries
|
January 14
|
89
|
Respiratory arrest
|
[87]
|
Thiago de Mello
|
Brazilian poet and translator
|
January 14
|
95
|
|
[88]
|
André Leon Talley
|
American fashion author, editor, and journalist
|
January 18
|
73
|
Complications of a heart attack and COVID-19
|
[89][90][91][92]
|
Lani Forbes
|
American young adult novelist`
|
February 3
|
35
|
Neuroendocrine cancer
|
[93]
|
Ashley Bryan
|
American writer and illustrator of children's books
|
February 4
|
98
|
|
[94][95]
|
Jason Epstein
|
American editor and publisher
|
February 4
|
93
|
Congestive heart failure
|
[96]
|
Kenta Nishimura
|
Japanese novelist
|
February 5
|
54
|
|
[97]
|
Bruce Duffy
|
American novelist
|
February 10
|
70
|
Brain cancer
|
[98]
|
P. J. O'Rourke
|
American political satirist and journalist
|
February 15
|
74
|
Lung cancer
|
[99]
|
Jan Pieńkowski
|
Polish-born English writer and illustrator of children's books (Meg and Mog)
|
February 19
|
85
|
Complications of dementia
|
[100]
|
Shirley Hughes
|
English writer and illustrator of children's books
|
February 25
|
94
|
|
[101]
|
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr.
|
American author, editor, and journalist
|
March 8
|
86
|
Complications from Parkinson's disease
|
[102]
|
Maureen Howard
|
American novelist, memoirist, and editor
|
March 13
|
91
|
|
[103]
|
Yuz Aleshkovsky
|
Russian-American writer, poet, and singer-songwriter
|
March 21
|
92
|
|
[104] (in Russian)
|
Ted Mooney
|
American novelist and journalist (Art in America)
|
March 22
|
70
|
Heart disease
|
[105]
|
Richard Howard
|
American poet, critic, and translator
|
March 31
|
92
|
|
[106]
|
David McKee
|
English writer and illustrator of children's books (Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, Not Now, Bernard)
|
April 6
|
87
|
|
[107]
|
Jack Higgins
|
British crime writer
|
April 9
|
92
|
|
[108]
|
Serhiy Dyachenko
|
Ukrainian fantasy novelist
|
May 5
|
77
|
|
[109]
|
Patricia A. McKillip
|
American fantasy novelist (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld)
|
May 6
|
74
|
|
[110]
|
Kim Chi-ha
|
South Korean poet and playwright
|
May 8
|
81
|
|
[111]
|
Peter Lamborn Wilson
|
American anarchist author and poet (Temporary Autonomous Zone)
|
May 22
|
76-77
|
|
[112]
|
Morton L. Janklow
|
American literary agent
|
May 25
|
91
|
|
[113][114]
|
Walter Abish
|
Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories
|
May 28
|
90
|
|
[115]
|
Boris Pahor
|
Slovenian writer (Necropolis)
|
May 30
|
108
|
|
[116]
|
George Lamming
|
Barbadian novelist (In the Castle of My Skin) and poet
|
June 4
|
94
|
|
[117]
|
Duncan Hannah
|
American visual artist and author
|
June 11
|
69
|
Heart attack
|
[118]
|
A. B. Yehoshua
|
Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright
|
June 14
|
85
|
Cancer
|
[119]
|
Raffaele La Capria
|
Italian writer and screenwriter (Hands over the City, Many Wars Ago)
|
June 26
|
99
|
|
[120]
|
Frank Moorhouse
|
Australian novelist and screenwriter
|
June 26
|
83
|
|
[121]
|
Susie Steiner
|
British crime novelist
|
July 2
|
51
|
Brain cancer
|
[122]
|
Joan Lingard
|
Scottish author (The Kevin and Sadie series)
|
July 12
|
90
|
|
[123]
|
Stuart Woods
|
American novelist (Chiefs)
|
July 22
|
84
|
|
[2]
|
Melissa Bank
|
American author (The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing)
|
August 2
|
61
|
Lung cancer
|
[124]
|
David McCullough
|
American author. Historian, and biographer (Truman, John Adams)
|
August 7
|
89
|
|
[125]
|
Raymond Briggs
|
English author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist (The Snowman, Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman)
|
August 9
|
88
|
Pneumonia
|
[126][127]
|
Nicholas Evans
|
English journalist, novelist (The Horse Whisperer), and screenwriter
|
August 9
|
72
|
Heart attack
|
[128]
|
Jean-Jacques Sempé
|
French cartoonist (Le Petit Nicolas)
|
August 11
|
89
|
|
[129]
|
Frederick Buechner
|
American novelist (A Long Day's Dying (1950), Godric (1980)), memoirist (The Sacred Journey (1982), Now and Then (1982)), essayist, poet, theologian, and preacher
|
August 15
|
96
|
|
[130][131]
|
Joseph Delaney
|
English author (Spook's)
|
August 16
|
77
|
|
[132]
|
Hadrawi
|
Somali poet
|
August 18
|
78-79
|
|
[133]
|
Michael Malone
|
American writer
|
August 19
|
80
|
Pancreatic cancer
|
[134]
|
Peter Straub
|
American writer (Julia, Ghost Story, and The Talisman)
|
September 4
|
79
|
|
[135]
|
Mariella Mehr
|
Swiss novelist, playwright and poet
|
September 5
|
74
|
|
[136]
|
Javier Marías
|
Spanish novelist (A Heart So White and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me)
|
September 11
|
70
|
Pneumonia
|
[137]
|
Yadollah Royaee
|
Iranian poet
|
September 14
|
90
|
|
[138]
|
Tibor Frank
|
Hungarian historian
|
September 15
|
74
|
|
[139]
|
Saul Kripke
|
American philosopher and logician
|
September 15
|
81
|
|
[140]
|
Hilary Mantel
|
British novelist (Wolf Hall)
|
September 22
|
70
|
|
[141][142]
|
Knud Sørensen
|
Danish novelist, essayist and poet
|
September 26
|
94
|
|
[143]
|
Marguerite Andersen
|
German-born Canadian writer, poet and translator
|
October 1
|
97
|
|
[144]
|
Charles Fuller
|
American playwright (A Soldier's Play, Zooman and the Sign)
|
October 3
|
83
|
|
[145]
|
Rebecca Godfrey
|
Canadian author
|
October 3
|
54
|
Lung cancer
|
[146]
|
David Huerta
|
Mexican poet
|
October 3
|
72
|
|
[147]
|
Peter Robinson
|
British-born Canadian crime writer
|
October 4
|
72
|
|
[148]
|
Temsüla Ao
|
Indian poet and writer (Laburnum For My Head)
|
October 9
|
76
|
|
[149]
|
Bruno Latour
|
French philosopher and sociologist (Laboratory Life, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern)
|
October 9
|
75
|
Pancreatic cancer
|
[150]
|
Thomas Cahill
|
American scholar and writer (How the Irish Saved Civilization)
|
October 18
|
82
|
|
[151]
|
John Jay Osborn Jr.
|
American writer (The Paper Chase)
|
October 19
|
77
|
Squamous cell cancer
|
[152]
|
Anton Donchev
|
Bulgarian novelist (Time of Parting) and screenwriter
|
October 20
|
92
|
|
[153]
|
Leszek Engelking
|
Polish writer and translator
|
October 22
|
67
|
|
[154]
|
Mike Davis
|
American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian (City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Set the Night on Fire)
|
October 25
|
76
|
Cancer
|
[155]
|
Julie Powell
|
American author (Julie & Julia)
|
October 25
|
49
|
Cardiac arrest
|
[156]
|
Gerald Stern
|
American poet, essayist, and educator
|
October 27
|
97
|
|
[157]
|
Bahaa Taher
|
Egyptian novelist and short story writer
|
October 27
|
87
|
|
[158]
|
Hava Pinhas-Cohen
|
Israeli writer and poet
|
October 29
|
67
|
|
[159]
|
Gael Greene
|
American author
|
November 1
|
88
|
|
[160]
|
Doris Grumbach
|
American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist
|
November 4
|
104
|
|
[161]
|
Geoff Cochrane
|
New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer
|
November 14
|
71
|
|
[162]
|
Marcus Sedgwick
|
British writer, illustrator and musician
|
November 15
|
54
|
|
[163]
|
Joëlle Guillais
|
French writer
|
November 19
|
70
|
Stroke
|
[164]
|
Marijane Meaker
|
American writer (Spring Fire)
|
November 21
|
95
|
Cardiac arrest
|
[165]
|
Bernadette Mayer
|
American poet and writer
|
November 22
|
77
|
|
[166]
|
Milovan Danojlić
|
Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic
|
November 23
|
85
|
|
[167]
|
Christian Bobin
|
French author and poet
|
November 24
|
71
|
|
[168]
|
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
|
German author, poet, translator, and editor (Der Untergang der Titanic, The Number Devil)
|
November 24
|
93
|
|
[169]
|
Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh
|
Yemeni poet and essayist
|
November 28
|
85
|
|
[170]
|
Ray Nelson
|
American science fiction writer (The Ganymede Takeover, The Prometheus Man)
|
November 30
|
91
|
|
[171]
|
Dominique Lapierre
|
French author
|
December 4
|
91
|
|
[172][173]
|
Claude Mossé
|
French historian
|
December 12
|
97
|
|
[174]
|
Xi Xi
|
Chinese novelist and poet
|
December 18
|
85
|
Heart failure
|
[175]
|
Manfred Messerschmidt
|
German historian (Germany and the Second World War)
|
December 19
|
96
|
|
[176]
|
Françoise Bourdin
|
French novelist
|
December 25
|
70
|
|
[177]
|
Begoña Huertas
|
Spanish writer
|
December 25
|
57
|
|
[178]
|
Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam
|
Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic
|
December 28
|
86
|
|
[179]
|
Marion Meade
|
American biographer and novelist
|
December 29
|
88
|
|
[180]
|