Deaths
- January 22 – Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet
- January 23 – Northrop Frye, literary critic
- January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, historian
- February 24 – John Daly, journalist, game show host
- March – Paul Engle, novelist
- April 3 – Graham Greene
- April 12 – James Schuyler, poet
- April 29 – Claude Gallimard, French publishing magnate
- May 3 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist
- July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- August 17 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator
- September 24 – Dr. Seuss
- October 11 – Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet
- October 12 – Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writer
- October 27 – George Barker, poet
- November 29 – Frank Yerby, historical novelist
- date unknown – Dante Milano, poet
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What we do is not beautiful
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