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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2021.
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda Gorman | The Hill We Climb: Poems | March 30, US | |
| Hannah Lowe | The Kids | September 16, US | [10] |
| Amanda Gorman | Call Us What We Carry | December 7, US |
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blake Bailey | Philip Roth: The Biography | May 26 | [99] |
| Hunter Biden | Beautiful Things | April 6 | [100] |
| Brian Broome | Punch Me Up to the Gods | May 18 | |
| Walter Isaacson | The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race | March 9 | [101] |
| Sinéad O'Connor | Rememberings | June 1 | [102] |
| Nadia Owusu | Aftershocks: A Memoir | January 12 | [103] |
| Michelle Zauner | Crying in H Mart | April 20 | [104] |
| Individual | Background | Date of Death | Age | Cause of Death | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Catherine Bateson | Daughter of Margaret Mead, American author and anthropologist | January 2 | 81 | Brain damage | [105] |
| Eric Jerome Dickey | American novelist | January 3 | 59 | Cancer | [106] |
| Neil Sheehan | American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author | January 7 | 84 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [107] |
| Christopher Little | J. K. Rowling's literary agent | January 7 | 79 | Cancer | [108] [109] |
| Ved Mehta | MacArthur Fellow, New Yorker writer, influential mentor, [110] and chronicler of India | January 9 | 87 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [111] |
| Vassilis Alexakis | Greek-born French writer and translator | January 11 | 77 | [112] | |
| Sharon Kay Penman | American historian and novelist | January 22 | 75 | Pneumonia | [113] |
| Martha Madrigal | Mexican poet | January 23 | 92 | COVID-19 | [ citation needed ] |
| Lars Norén | Swedish playwright, novelist and poet | January 26 | 77 | COVID-19 | [114] |
| Maria Guarnaschelli | American cookbook editor | February 6 | 79 | Heart disease | [115] |
| Jean-Claude Carrière | French novelist, screenwriter and actor | February 8 | 89 | [116] | |
| Lawrence Otis Graham | American essayist and cultural critic | February 19 | 59 | [117] | |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | American beat poet, publisher, and co-founder of City Lights Bookstore | February 22 | 101 | Interstitial lung disease | [118] |
| Enrique González Rojo, Jr. | Mexican writer and philosopher | March 5 | 92 | [119] | |
| N. S. Lakshminarayan Bhat | Indian poet | March 6 | 84 | [120] | |
| Valentin Kurbatov | Russian literary critic and writer | March 6 | 81 | [121] | |
| Djibril Tamsir Niane | Guinean writer and historian | March 8 | 89 | COVID-19 | [122] |
| Norton Juster | American writer | March 8 | 91 | Complication from a stroke | [123] |
| Joan Walsh Anglund | American poet and children's book author and illustrator | March 9 | 95 | Heart failure | [124] |
| Robert Middlekauff | American historian | March 10 | 91 | Complication from a stroke | [125] |
| Nawal El Saadawi | Egyptian feminist and writer | March 21 | 89 | [126] | |
| Adam Zagajewski | Polish poet | March 21 | 75 | [127] | |
| Morris Dickstein | American literary critic and cultural historian | March 24 | 81 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [128] |
| Beverly Cleary | Children's book writer | March 25 | 104 | [129] | |
| Larry McMurtry | American novelist | March 25 | 84 | [130] | |
| Giancarlo DiTrapano | Founder of Tyrant Books | March 30 | 47 | [131] [132] | |
| Arthur Kopit | American playwright | April 2 | 83 | [133] | |
| Denis Donoghue | Irish academic and literary critic | April 6 | 92 | [134] | |
| Vartan Gregorian | Saved the New York Public Library | April 15 | 87 | [135] | |
| Anthony Thwaite | English poet and editor | April 22 | 90 | [136] | |
| Pieter Aspe | Belgian writer | May 2 | 68 | [137] | |
| Jesús Hilario Tundidor | Spanish poet | May 2 | 85 | [138] | |
| Lucinda Franks | Journalist and memoirist, first women to win a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting | May 5 | 74 | [139] | |
| Kentaro Miura | Japanese manga artist | May 6 | 54 | Acute aortic dissection | [140] |
| Eric Carle | American children's book writer and illustrator | May 23 | 91 | Kidney failure | [141] |
| Dan Frank | Editorial director of Pantheon Books | May 24 | 67 | [142] | |
| Friederike Mayröcker | Austrian poet and writer | June 4 | 96 | [143] | |
| Richard Robinson | Turned Scholastic into a major children's book publisher | June 5 | 84 | [144] | |
| Janet Malcolm | American journalist, biographer, and writer for The New Yorker | June 16 | 86 | Lung cancer | [145] |
| Stephen Dunn | American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet | June 24 | 82 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [146] |
| Elizabeth Martinez | American author who jumpstarted the Chicana movement | June 29 | 95 | [147] | |
| Athan Theoharis | American historian | July 3 | 84 | Pneumonia | [148] |
| Roberto Calasso | Italian novelist, critic, scholar, and publisher | July 28 | 80 | [149] | |
| Jean Breeze | Jamaican dub poet and storyteller | August 4 | 65 | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) | [150] |
| Donald Kagan | American historian | August 6 | 89 | [151] | |
| Jill Murphy | British children's author and illustrator | August 18 | 72 | Cancer | [152] |
| James W. Loewen | American sociologist and author | August 19 | 79 | Bladder cancer | [153] |
| David Roberts | American adventure writer | August 20 | 78 | [154] | |
| Russ Kick | American writer and ediot | September 12 | 52 | [155] | |
| Charles W. Mills | American philosopher | September 20 | 70 | Cancer | [156] |
| Takao Saito | Japanese manga artist | September 24 | 84 | Pancreatic cancer | [157] |
| Gary Paulsen | American author | October 13 | 82 | Cardiac arrest | [158] |
| Máire Mhac an tSaoi | Irish language scholar and poet | October 16 | 99 | [159] | |
| Brendan Kennelly | Irish poet | October 17 | 85 | [160] | |
| Jerry Pinkney | American children's book writer and illustrator | October 20 | 81 | Heart attack | [161] |
| Raúl Rivero | Cuban poet | November 6 | 75 | [162] | |
| Sylvère Lotringer | French literary critic and founder of Semiotexte(e) | November 8 | 83 | [163] | |
| Jakucho Setouchi | Japanese feminist writer | November 9 | 99 | Heart failure | [164] |
| Petra Mayer | American book editor | November 13 | 46 | Pulmonary embolism | [165] |
| Etel Adnan | Lebanese-American novelist | November 14 | 96 | [166] | |
| Robert Bly | American poet, translator, and author | November 21 | 96 | Complications of Alzheimer's disease | [167] |
| Almudena Grandes | Spanish novelist | November 21 | 94 | Cancer | [168] |
| Andrew Vachss | American crime writer | November 23 | 79 | Coronary artery disease | [169] |
| Marie-Claire Blais | Canadian writer | November 30 | 82 | [170] | |
| Miroslav Zikmund | Czech adventurer, travel writer and film director | December 1 | 102 | [171] | |
| Greg Tate | American journalist and cultural critic | December 7 | 64 | [172] | |
| Anne Rice | American author | December 12 | 80 | Complications from a stroke | [173] |
| bell hooks | American author and feminist | December 15 | 69 | Kidney failure | [174] [175] [176] |
| Madhur Kapila | Indian journalist, novelist, art critic, and reviewer of Hindi literature | December 19 | 79 | Cardiac arrest | [177] |
| Myrna Manzanares | Belizean writer and activist | December 21 | 75 | Complications from a stroke | [178] |
| Joan Didion | American author and memoirist | December 23 | 87 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [179] |
| Keri Hulme | New Zealand writer ( The Bone People ) and poet | December 25 | 74 | Chronic medical issues | [180] |
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