Preparing the annual list of people from the writing whom we lost over the year is the least favorite of my year-end blogging tasks. Rereading the list always painfully takes my breath away.
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1/22
Barbara Wersba, 2/18
Lisa Garcia Quiroz, 3/16
Philip Kerr, 3/23
Anita Shreve, 3/29
Drue Heinz, 3/30
Sergio Pitol, 4/12
Joan Chase, 4/17
Alice Provensen, 4/23
Edwin G. Burrows, 5/4
Tom Wolfe, 5/14
Tom Murphy, 5/15
Philip Roth, 5/22
Richard Peck, 5/23
Philippe de Baleine, 6/7
Nina Baym, 6/15
Donald Hall, 6/23
Anne Tolstoi Wallach, 6/27
Harlan Ellison, 6/28
Christine Nöstlinger, 6/28
Jessica Mann, 7/10
Patricia Hermes, 7/11
Anne Olivier Bell, 7/18
Betty Miles, 7/19
Burt Britton, 7/21
Judith Appelbaum, 7/25
Vladimir Voinovich, 8/3
Anita Miller, 8/4
Anya Krugovoy Silver, 8/6
V.S. Naipaul, 8/11
John Calder, 8/13
Tom Clark, 8/18
Carie Freimuth, 8/19
Hanna Mina, 8/21
Neil Simon, 8/26
Peter Corris, 8/30
Amanda Kyle Williams, 8/31
Stephen Jeffreys, 9/17
Judith Kazantzis, 9/18
David Wong Louie, 9/19
Evelyn Anthony, 9/25
Dave Anderson, 10/4
Lee Hochman, 10/6
Kate Dopirak, 10/10
Anthea Bel, 10/18
Todd Bol, 10/18
Tony Hoagland, 10/23
Ntozake Shange, 10/27
María Irene Fornés, 10/30
Jin Yong, 10/30
Christopher Lehmann-Haup, 11/7
Juris Jurjevics, 11/7
Janet Paisley, 11/9
Donald McCaig, 11/11
Stan Lee, 11/12
Fernando del Paso, 11/14
William Goldman, 11/16
James H. Billington, 11/20
Meena Alexander, 11/21
Andrei Bitov, 12/3
Justin Cartwright, 12/3
Meng Lang, 12/12
Amos Oz, 12/28
Jane Langton, 12/22
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