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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2020.
Dates after each title indicate the first publication, unless otherwise indicated.
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Date | Individual | Background | Age | Cause of death | Ref. |
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January 5 | Sylvia Jukes Morris | British biographer | 84 | [168] | |
January 7 | Elizabeth Wurtzel | American author ( Prozac Nation ) | 52 | Leptomeningeal disease as a complication of metastasized breast cancer | [169] |
January 9 | Chukwuemeka Ike | Nigerian writer | 88 | [170] | |
January 12 | Sir Roger Scruton | English philosopher and writer | 75 | Cancer | [171] |
January 16 | Christopher Tolkien | British academic and editor, son of J. R. R. Tolkien | 95 | [172] | |
January 17 | Charles Carrère | Senegalese poet | 91 | [173] | |
January 23 | Armando Uribe | Chilean writer, National Prize for Literature winner (2004) | 86 | [174] | |
January 30 | Jörn Donner | Finnish writer | 86 | Lung disease | [175] |
January 31 | Mary Higgins Clark | American best-selling author of suspense novels | 92 | [176] | |
February 3 | George Steiner , FBA | Frenco-American literary critic and essayist ( After Babel ) | 90 | [177] | |
February 4 | Kamau Brathwaite | Barbadian poet and academic | 89 | [178] | |
Alice Mayhew | American editor | 87 | [179] | ||
February 12 | Christie Blatchford | Canadian newspaper columnist, writer and broadcaster | 68 | Cancer | [180] |
February 17 | Charles Portis | American author ( True Grit, Gringos ) | 86 | Alzheimer's disease | [181] |
February 21 | Lisel Mueller | German-American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet | 96 | [182] | |
February 22 | Kiki Dimoula | Greek poet | 88 | [183] | |
February 24 | Clive Cussler | American adventure novelist ( Raise the Titanic! ) and founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) | 88 | [184] | |
February 25 | Grace F. Edwards | American novelist and director of the Harlem Writers Guild | 87 | [185] | |
March 2 | Barbara Neely | African-American myster writer | 78 | [186] | |
March 13 | Yang Mu | Taiwanese poet and essayist | 79 | [187] | |
March 22 | Richard Marek | American editor | 86 | Esophageal cancer | [188] |
March 24 | Terrence McNally | American playwright, and librettist | 81 | COVID-19 | [189] |
March 30 | Tomie dePaola | American author and illustrator | 86 | Complications from surgery | [190] |
April 1 | Bruce Dawe | Australian poet | 90 | [191] | |
April 2 | Patricia Bosworth | American biographer, and memoirist | 86 | COVID-19 | [192] |
April 6 | Jean Little | Canadian children's fiction author | 88 | [193] | |
April 15 | Rubem Fonseca | Brazilian writer | 94 | [194] | |
April 16 | Luis Sepúlveda | Chilean author and journalist | 70 | COVID-19 | [195] |
April 25 | Per Olov Enquist | Swedish author ( The Visit of the Royal Physician ) | 85 | Cancer | [196] |
April 27 | Eavan Boland | Irish poet | 75 | Stroke | [197] |
April 29 | Yahya Hassan | Danish poet and political activist | 24 | [198] | |
Maj Sjowall | Swedish crime writer | 84 | [199] | ||
May 4 | Michael McClure | American beat poet, playwright, and songwriter, who read at the Six Gallery reading | 87 | Complications from a stroke | [200] |
May 12 | Carolyn Reidy | American publisher and head of Simon & Schuster | 71 | Heart attack | [201] |
May 27 | Larry Kramer | American playwright ( The Normal Heart ) and LGBT rights activist | 84 | Pneumonia | [202] [203] |
June 2 | Hiber Conteris | Uruguayan literary critic | 86 | ||
June 3 | Bruce Jay Friedman | American humorist, novelist, and playwright | 90 | [204] | |
June 13 | Jean Raspail | French author ( The Camp of the Saints ) | 94 | ||
June 19 | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | Spanish author ( The Shadow of the Wind ) | 55 | Colorectal cancer | [205] |
June 28 | Rudolfo Anaya | American author ( Bless Me, Ultima ), founder of Chicano literature | 82 | [206] [207] | |
July 7 | Elizabeth Harrower | Australian novelist | 92 | [208] | |
July 8 | Brad Watson | American author | 64 | [209] | |
July 12 | Joanna Cole | American author ( The Magic School Bus ) | 75 | Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis | [210] |
August 3 | Shirley Ann Grau | American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer ( The Keepers of the House ) | 91 | Complications from a Stroke | [211] |
August 5 | Eric Bentley | American theater critic | 103 | [212] | |
Pete Hamill | American journalist and author | 85 | Heart and kidney failure | [213] | |
August 10 | Jacobo Langsner | Uruguayan screenwriter and playwright | 93 | ||
August 24 | Gail Sheehy | American journalist and author ( Hillary's Choice ) | 83 | Complications of pneumonia | [214] |
August 28 | Randall Kenan | American short story writer and author | 57 | [215] | |
September 1 | Shanna Hogan | American true crime writer | 37 | Home accident | [216] |
September 2 | David Graeber | American anthropologist, activist, social critic, and author ( Debt: The First 5000 Years ) | 59 | Necrotic pancreatitis | |
September 12 | Florence Howe | American author, publisher, literary scholar, and historian, founder of Feminist Press | 91 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [217] |
September 14 | Anne Stevenson | British-American poet and author | 87 | Heart failure | |
September 16 | Stanley Crouch | American jazz critic, playwright, novelist, public intellectual, and essayist | 74 | COVID-19 | [218] |
September 17 | Terry Goodkind | American science-fiction and fantasy writer | 72 | [219] | |
Winston Groom | American author (Forrest Gump) | 77 | Heart attack | [220] | |
September 23 | Sir Harold Evans | British-American journalist and author ( The American Century ) | 92 | Congestive heart failure | [221] [222] |
September 23 | Emyr Humphreys | Welsh-language writer | 101 | [223] | |
October 1 | Derek Mahon | Irish poet and journalist | 78 | [224] | |
October 5 | Ruth Klüger | Austrian-American author and academic | 88 | [225] | |
October 25 | Diane Di Prima | American poet | 86 | [226] | |
October 26 | Daniel Menaker | American editor at Random House and The New Yorker | 79 | Pancreatic cancer | [227] |
October 27 | Julia O'Faolain | Irish writer | 88 | [228] | |
October 31 | Joan Bingham | American co-founder and executive director of Grove Atlantic | 85 | Pneumonia | [229] |
November 4 | Naomi Long Madgett | American poet laureate, founder of Lotus Press, and “the godmother of African-American poetry” | 97 | [230] [231] | |
November 6 | Luke Rhinehart | American novelist, screenwriter, and nonfiction writer | 87 | [232] | |
Natan Zach | Israeli poet | 89 | Complications of Alzheimer's disease | [233] | |
Mikhail Zhvanetsky | Soviet and Russian writer and satirist | 86 | [234] | ||
November 9 | Joan Drury | American writer, publisher, and indie bookseller | 75 | [235] | |
November 20 | Jan Morris | British journalist | 94 | [236] | |
November 29 | Ben Bova | American science fiction writer and magazine editor (Analog) | 88 | COVID-19-related pneumonia and a stroke | [237] [238] |
December 1 | Miguel Algarín | Puerto Rican poet and founder of Nuyorican Poets Café | 79 | Sepsis | [239] |
December 3 | Alison Lurie | American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist ( Foreign Affairs ) | 94 | [240] | |
December 8 | Anthony Veasna So | American short story writer | 28 | Accidental drug overdose | [241] [242] |
December 12 | John le Carré | English author ( Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ) | 89 | Complications from a fall | [243] |
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