recent literary deaths

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:31:02 GMT

I paid for a year's membership for this account, to prod myself to write more here. I do journal about anything and everything, still, but rarely on my older Dreamwidth account - mostly it's just on paper lately.

I've been keeping a list in my paper journal that I call "Celebrity Deathwatch" - although I'm just being flip with that name. I got interested in the running Deaths page on Wikipedia, and I started writing down the ones that were people I knew of or people I thought were interesting or whatever. So I though I'd share the reading-related ones here - authors of course, but also anybody else who was reading-adjacent (illustrator, for instance).

So here's the ones from the last month or so:
Tracy Kidder, 80, nonfiction writer (Soul of a New Machine)
Paul Ehrlich, 93, biologist, author of The Population Bomb
William Dietz, 80, science-fiction writer
Ronald Spector, 83, military historian
Ted Booth, 87, British poet
Michael Hague, 77, book illustrator (mostly of fantasy/fairy tale books, incl. The Hobbit)
Tatjana Wood, 99, comic book artist ("Swamp Thing")

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recent literary deaths