Deaths
- February 9 – Allen Tate, poet and essayist
- February 25 – John L. Wasserman, critic
- March 26 – Jean Stafford, short story writer and novelist
- May 10 – J. B. Morton, columnist ("Beachcomber")
- May 14 – Jean Rhys, novelist
- June 3 – Arno Schmidt, novelist
- June 7 – Forrest Carter, author
- July 6 – Malcolm Hulke, TV writer
- July 29 – Herbert Marcuse, philosopher
- October 6 – Elizabeth Bishop, poet
- October 17 – S. J. Perelman, humorist
- October 18 – Virgilio Piñera, poet and short-story writer
- December 19 – Donald Creighton, historian
- date unknown
- Dilys Cadwaladr, poet
- Sir George Clark, historian
- Goronwy Rees, journalist
Read more about this topic: 1979 In Literature
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)