This is always my least favorite post of the year.
Here’s a list of people the literary world lost in 2017, including, where available, a link to an obituary and the date of death.
John Berger, 1/2
Nat Hentoff, 1/7
Clare Hollingworth, 1/10
William Peter Blatty, 1/12
William A. Hilliard, 1/16
Peter Abrahams, 1/18
Byron Dobell, 1/21
Emma Tennant, 1/21
Buchi Emecheta, 1/25
Harry Mathews, 1/25
Bharati Mukherjee, 1/28
Barbara Harlow, 1/28
Howard Frank Mosher, 1/29
Thomas Lux, 2/5
Barbara Gelb, 2/9
Dick Bruna, 2/16
Nancy Willard, 2/19
Frank Delaney, 2/21
Gary Cartwright, 2/22
Edith Shiffert, 3/1
Robert James Waller, 3/10
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, 3/13
George Braziller, 3/16
Derek Walcott, 3/17
Jimmy Breslin, 3/19
Robert Silvers, 3/20
Colin Dexter, 3/21
Joanne Kyger, 3/22
David Storey, 3/26
William McPherson, 3/28
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 4/1
Glenn O’Brien, 4/7
Patricia McKissack, 4/7
Robert M. Pirsig, 4/24
Anne R. Dick, 4/28
Jean Fritz, 5/14
Neil Gordon, 5/19
Denys Johnson-Davies, 5/22
Denis Johnson, 5/24
Ann Birstein, 5/24
Frank Deford, 5/28
Charles Simmons, 6/1
Juan Goytisolo, 6/4
Helen Dunmore, 6/5
Margaux Fragoso, 6/23
Michael Bond, 6/27
Heathcote Williams, 7/1
Spencer Johnson, 7/3
Kenneth Silverman, 7/7
Clancy Sigal, 7/16
Sam Shepard, 7/27
Judith Jones, 8/2
Janusz Glowacki, 8/19
Brian Aldiss, 8/19
Susan Vreeland, 8/23
Howard Kaminsky, 8/26
Bernard Pomerance, 8/26
Rachel Kranz, 8/28
Elaine Ford, 8/27
Louise Hay, 8/30
Katherine M. Bonniwell, 8/31
John Ashbery, 9/3
Kate Millett, 9/6
Jerry Pournelle, 9/8
J.P. Donleavy, 9/11
Myrna Lamb, 9/15
Lillian Ross, 9/20
Kit Reed, 9/24
Si Newhouse, 10/1
Richard Wilbur, 10/14
Donald Bain, 10/14
Fay Chiang, 10/20
Gilbert Rogin, 11/4
Nancy Friday, 11/5
Pat Hutchins, 11/8
Jeremy Hutchinson, 11/13
Les Whitten, 12/2
William Gass, 12/6
Kathleen Karr, 12/6
Bette Howland, 12/13
Clifford Irving, 12/19
Sue Grafton, 12/28
