1937 in Literature - Deaths

Deaths

  • February 19 - Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan short story writer, 58 (suicide by poisoning)
  • March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer, 46 (intestinal cancer)
  • March 25 - John Drinkwater, poet and dramatist, 54
  • May 20 - Frederic Taber Cooper, editor, 72
  • June 13 - William F. Lloyd, newspaper editor, 72
  • June 19 - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist, 77
  • August 11 - Edith Wharton, writer (born 1862)
  • September 13 - Ellis Parker Butler, novelist, 67
  • September 28 - Gerald Duckworth, publisher, 67
  • October 22 - Nakahara Chuya, Japanese poet, 30 (meningitis)
  • October 31 - Ralph Connor, novelist
  • December 24 - Elizabeth Haldane, author, biographer, philosopher, suffragist, nursing administrator, and social welfare worker, 75
  • December 26 - Ivor Gurney, war poet and composer, 47 (tuberculosis)
  • December 29 - Don Marquis, poet
  • date unknown
    • Edward Garnett, critic
    • W. F. Harvey, short story writer
  • August 14 - H. C. McNeile ("Sapper"), "Bulldog Drummond" novelist, 48

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