Authors gone but not forgotten
BookChase plublished a list of authors who passed on in 2007. It’s always sad to see a list like this but as one of the blogs readers put it “At least they leave a legacy of their work behind among other things.”
January:
Robert Anton Wilson, 74 - co-author of “The Illuminatus Trilogy”
Art Buchwald, 81 - author and humorist
Sidney Sheldon, 89 - author
Molly Ivins, 62 - political writer and humorist
Peter Tompkins, 87 - author of “The Secret Life of Plants”
February:
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 89 - historian
Marianne Fredriksson, 79 - much-admired Swedish author
Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, 89 - German author of “Das Boot”
March:
Henri Troyat, 95 - prolific French author
Robert E. Petersen, 80 - magazine publisher
Michael Dibdin, 60 - author most famous for his “Aurelio Zen” mysteries
April:
Kurt Vonnegut, 84 - author
David Halberstam, 73 - historian and journalist famous for baseball writing
May:
Lloyd Alexander, 83 - author of children’s books
Mark Harris, 84 - most famous for his baseball books like “Bang the Drum Slowly”
June:
William Meredith, 88 - prize-winning poet
Richard Rorty - American philosopher
Nazek al-Malaika, 85 - Iraqi poet
Fred T. Saberhagen, 77 - science fiction author
July:
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, 68 - writer of historical romances
John Graham, 80 - author of children’s books
August:
Grace Paley, 84 - short story writer and poet
Edward Seidensticker, 86 - translator of Japanese literature
September:
Madeleine L’Engle, 88 - author most famous for “A Wrinkle in Time”
Robert Jordan, 58 - fantasy author
October:
Peg Bracken, 89 - author of the “I Hate to Cook Book”
November:
Norman Mailer, 84 - author and celebrity
Ira Levin, 78 - author most famous for “Rosemary’s Baby”
December:
Elizabeth Hardwick, 91 - author and critic, co-founder of The New York Review of Books
