Deaths
- January 18 – Kathleen Norris, novelist and wife of fellow-novelist Charles Gilman Norris, 85
- February 12 - Elio Vittorini, Italian novelist, 57
- March 10 – Frank O'Connor, short-story writer, 62
- April 1 – Flann O'Brien, satirist, 54 (heart attack)
- April 2 – C. S. Forester, Hornblower author, 66
- April 10 – Evelyn Waugh, novelist, biographer and travel writer, 62 (heart failure)
- April 13 – Georges Duhamel, French novelist, 81
- June 7 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet, 79
- June 10 – Henry Treece, historical novelist, 54
- June 30 – Margery Allingham, crime novelist, 62
- July 25 – Frank O'Hara, poet, 40 (ruptured liver)
- August 6 – Cordwainer Smith, science fiction author, 53 (heart attack)
- August 12 - Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet, 43 (cancer)
- September 25 – Mina Loy, poet and artist, 83
- September 28 – André Breton, French Surrealist poet and author, 70
- October 30 - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist, 60
- November 26 – Siegfried Kracauer, journalist and critic, 77
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)