Deaths
- February 8 - Iris Murdoch, writer, aged 79
- February 20 - Sarah Kane, playwright, aged 28
- February 22 - William Bronk, poet, winner of the 1982 National Book Award aged 81
- February 24 - Andre Dubus, writer
- March 4 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, aged 77
- March 13 Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter
- March 28 - Jim Turner, editor, aged 54
- May 10 - Shel Silverstein, children's poet, aged 68
- June 14 - J. F. Powers, American writer, aged 81
- July 2 - Mario Puzo, writer (The Godfather), aged 78
- July 16 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., publisher, son of John F. Kennedy, aged 38 (airplane crash)
- October 3 - Heinz G. Konsalik, writer, aged 78
- October 19 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer
- November 11 - Jacobo Timmerman, journalist and publisher
- November 18 - Paul Bowles, novelist
- December 8 - Rupert Hart-Davis, editor, publisher
- December 12 - Joseph Heller, American novelist (Catch-22), aged 76
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