Writing
| Name | Life | Comments | Diagnosis | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margery Allingham | (1904–1966) | British mystery writer; died at age 62 | ||
| V. C. Andrews | (1923–1986) | (aka V. C. Andrews), American author; died at age 62 | ||
| Sally Belfrage | (1936–1994) | American author and journalist; died at age 57 | ||
| Erma Bombeck | (1927–1996) | American columnist and author; survived breast cancer, but died during a kidney transplant; died at age 69 | ||
| Fanny Burney | (1752–1840) | English novelist; survived breast cancer; died at age 88 | ||
| Joan Riddell Cook | (1922–1995) | American journalist and labor activist; founded JAWS (Journalism and Women Symposium) died in 1995 at age 73 | , | |
| Julia Darling | (1956–2005) | award-winning British writer; died at age 48 | ||
| Helen Dewar | (1936–2006) | American political reporter for The Washington Post newspaper; died at age 70 on November 4, 2006 | ||
| Shirley Graham Du Bois | (1896–1977) | African-American author, playwright, composer, activist and wife of noted African-American thinker, writer, and activist W. E. B. Du Bois; died at age 80 | ||
| Susan Duncan | (1952–present) | Australian author and magazine editor | ||
| Barbara Ehrenreich | (1941–present) | American author/ethicist | ||
| Annalee Fadiman | (1917–2002) | author and World War II foreign correspondent for Life and Time magazines and wife of author Clifton Fadiman; died due to suicide after suffering from breast cancer and Parkinson's; died at age 85 | ||
| Caitlin Flanagan | (19?? - present) | American magazine writer, editor and book author | ||
| Lacey Fosburgh | (1942–1993) | American author and wife of American author David Harris; died circa age 50 | ||
| Lucy Grijalva | (19?? - present) | writer of romance novels | ||
| Jane Hamsher | (1959–present) | American film producer, author and liberal blogger | diagnosed 3rd time in December, 2006 at age 47 | , |
| Molly Ivins | (1944–2007) | American journalist and author diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer; died at age 62 | diagnosed in 1999 at age 55 | , |
| Alice James | (1848–1892) | American diarist, sister of American psychologist William James and American author Henry James and daughter of American theologian Henry James Sr.; died at age 43 | ||
| June Jordan | (1936–2002) | African-American professor of African-American studies, poet and author of 28 books; died at age 62 | diagnosed in 1992 at age 56 | |
| Barbara Joss | (19?? - present) | Australian writer | ||
| Jennifer Lash | (1938–1993) | aka Jini Fiennes; British writer/artist; mother of six (including actors Ralph and Joseph, producers Martha, Magnus, and Sophie and Jacob Fiennes); died at age 55 | diagnosed in the late 1980s | |
| Betsy Lehman | (1955–1994) | a Boston Globe newspaper columnist, and Maureen Bateman, a teacher, both of whom had advanced breast cancer, but died of medication overdoses at Boston's Dana Farber Institute; The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction created in aftermath of scandal. (Lehman died at age 39 and Bateman died at age 55) | , | |
| Elisabeth Leseur | (1866–1914) | French diarist; died at age 47 | ||
| Nikolai Leskov | (1831–1895) | male Russian writer; died at age 64 | ||
| Audre Lorde | (1934–1992) | African-American author; died at age 58 | ||
| Geralyn Lucas | (1968–present) | American journalist, television producer, and writer | diagnosed in 1995 at age 27 | |
| Susan McManus McGahern | (19?? - 1943) | mother of late Irish writer, John McGahern (see NY Irish Echo, April 5–11, 2006, page 25); she died when John McGahern was 9 years old | ||
| Melissa Nathan | (1968–2006) | British novelist; died on April 7, 2006 at age 37; breast cancer recurred in 2003 | diagnosed in 2001 at age 32 | , |
| Gayle Olinekova | (1953–2003) | Canadian writer, marathon runner, bodybuilder and chiropractor; died at age 50 | ||
| Ruth Picardie | (1964–1997) | British writer and columnist for The Observer; died in September, 1997 at age 33 | diagnosed in October, 1996 at age 32 | , |
| Margaret Morgan Potter | (19?? - 1994) | wife of British writer Dennis Potter; died in 1994 shortly before her own husband's death | ||
| Barbara Pym | (1913–1980) | British author/writer; died at age 66 | ||
| Dina Rabinovitch | (1963–2007) | British journalist for The Guardian and book author | diagnosed in June, 2004. Died on October 30, 2007. | , |
| Claire Rayner | (1932–present) | British journalist | diagnosed in 2002 at age 70 | |
| Cokie Roberts | (1943–present) | American journalist | ||
| Betty Rollin | (1936–present) | American author, retired TV correspondent | ||
| May Sarton | (1912–1995) | Belgium-born American poet, novelist, and memoirist; died at age 83 | ||
| Carol Shields | (1935–2003) | Canada-based U.S. author; died at age 68 | ||
| Susan Sontag | (1933–2004) | American author, diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, but died due to leukemia traceable to the massive doses of radiotherapy and chemotherapy received decades earlier for her breast cancer; also diagnosed with a rare form of uterine cancer; died at age 71 | ||
| Karin Stanford | (19?? - present) | African-American writer and professor | ||
| Marie Stopes | (1880–1958) | Scottish author and birth control advocate; died at age 78 | ||
| Jacqueline Susann | (1918–1974) | American writer; died at age 56 | diagnosed in 1962 at age 44; recurred in January, 1973 at age 55 | |
| Dorothy Perry Thompson | (1944–2002) | African-American poet and professor; died at age 68 | ||
| Dolly Wilde | (1895–1941) | English socialite, niece of Irish writer Oscar Wilde and friend of American writer Natalie Clifford Barney; died at age 45 of unknown causes | diagnosed in 1939 at age 43 | |
| Stephanie Williams | (1971–2004) | American journalist and author; died in July, 2004 at age 33 | diagnosed in June, 2001 at age 30 | , |
| Kim Yale | (19?? - 1997) | Writer and editor for multiple comic book companies, including Marvel, DC, First and Warp Graphics; wife of fellow comics creator John Ostrander. |
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