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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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
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“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.”
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