1944 in Literature - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 6 – Ida M. Tarbell, journalist
  • January 8 – Joseph Jastrow, psychologist
  • January 31 – Jean Giraudoux, dramatist
  • February 10 – Israel Joshua Singer, Yiddish novelist
  • February 12 – Olive Custance, poet (born 1874)
  • March 5
    • Max Jacob, poet and critic
    • Alun Lewis, war poet (accidental shooting)
  • March 28 – Stephen Leacock, economist
  • May 3 – Anica Černej, Slovenian poet (born 1900) (concentration camp victim)
  • May 12 – Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Q"
  • May 16 – George Ade, journalist and dramatist
  • June
    • Joseph Campbell, poet (born 1879)
    • Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, socialite and author
  • June 9 – Keith Douglas, war poet (born 1920; killed in action)
  • June 16 – Marc Bloch, historian (born 1886)
  • July 31 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (born 1900)
  • August 13 - Ethel Lina White, crime novelist (born 1876)
  • September 13 – W. Heath Robinson, cartoonist and illustrator
  • October 19 – Karel Poláček, writer, humourist, journalist
  • November 15 – Edith Durham, travel writer (born 1863)
  • December 17 – Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist (born 1893)
  • December 30 – Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author

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