Deaths
- January 19 - James Dickey, poet, novelist
- February 3 - Bohumil Hrabal, author
- April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, poet
- August 2 - William S. Burroughs, novelist
- August 27 - Johannes Edfelt, poet, translator and critic
- October 14 - Harold Robbins, novelist
- October 16 - James A. Michener, novelist and historian
- November 6 - Leon Forrest, novelist and essayist
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