1979 in Literature - Deaths

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

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