FAMOUS WRITERS THAT DIED IN 2011

HARRY BERNSTEIN: May 30, 1910 - June 3, 2011: age 101: natural causes: known for his biography "The Invisible Wall" 

LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN: June 20, 1913 - June 4, 2011: age: 97: lung infection: known for her "The Cat Who" mysteries 

JOSEPHINE HART: March 1, 1942 - June 2, 2011: age: 69: cancer: known for her novel "Damages" 

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011: age: 62: throat cancer: known for his non-fiction book "God is Not Good" 

RUSSELL HOBAN: February 4, 1925 - December 13, 2011: age: 86: heart failure: known for his children's book "A Bargain for Frances" 

BRIAN JACQUES: June 15, 1939 - February 5, 2011: age: heart attack: known for his sci-fi "Redwall" series

DIANA WYNNE JONES: August 14, 1934 - March 25, 2011: age: 76: lung cancer: known for her sci-fi book "Howl's Moving Castle" 

 DICK KING-SMITH: March 27, 1922 - January 4, 2011: age: 88: natural causes: known for his novel "The Sheep-Pig" 

STEVEN KROLL: August 11, 1941 - March 8, 2011: age: 69: after stomach surgery: known for his children's book "The Biggest Pumpkin Ever" 

ANNE MCCAFFREY: April 1, 1926 - November 21, 2011: age 85: stroke: known for her "Acorna" sci-fi series

ALVIN SCHWARTZ: April 25, 1927 - March 14, 2011: age: 64: lymphoma: known for his children's book "Scary Stories to Tell in the Night" 

RUTH THOMAS: January 4, 1927 - August 25, 2011: age: 84: natural causes: known for her children's book "The Runaways" 

NEWTON THORNBURG: May 13, 1929 - May 9, 2011: age: 81: natural causes following a stroke: known for his novel "To Die in California" 

FAMOUS WRITERS THAT DIED IN 2012

JAN BERENSTAIN: July 26, 1923 - February 24, 2012: age: 88: stroke: known for the children's series "The Berenstain Bears" 

MAEVE BINCHY: May 28, 1939 - July 30, 2012: age: 73: heart attack: known for her novels such as "Tara Road" 

RAY BRADBURY: August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012: age: 91: natural causes: known for many novels such as "Fahrenheit 451" 

HELEN GURLEY BROWN: February 18, 1922 - August 13, 2012: age: 90: natural causes: known for her non-fiction book "Sex and the Single Girl" 

NORA EPHRON: May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012: age: 71: pneumonia and leukemia: known for her nonfiction book "I Feel Back About My Neck" 

CARLOS FUENTES: November 11, 1928 - May 12, 2012: age: 83: internal bleeding: known for his novel "The Old Gringo" 

JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE: July 2, 1919 - May 12, 2012: age: 92: heart failure: known for her children's books such as "My Side of the Mountain" 

REGINALD HILL: April 3, 1936 - January 12, 2012: age: 75: brain tumor: known for his crime novels such as "Pictures of Perfection" 

MISS READ: aka Dora Jessie Saint: April 17, 1913 - April 7, 2012: age 98: natural causes: know for her "Fairacre Series"

MAURICE SENDAK: June 10, 1928 - May 8, 2012: age: 83: stroke: known for his children's books such as "Where the Wild Things Are" 

DONALD J. SOBOL: October 4, 1924 - July 11, 2012: age: 87: lymphoma: known for his children's series "Encyclopedia Brown" 

GORE VIDAL: October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012: age: 86: pneumonia: known for his novels such as "Hollywood" 

BILL WALLACE: August 1, 1947 - January 30, 2012: age: 65: lung cancer: known for his children's books such as "No Dogs Allowed" 

FAMOUS WRITERS THAT DIED IN 2013

IAIN BANKS: February 16, 1954 - June 9, 2013: age: 59: gallbladder cancer: known for his sci-fi books such as "The Wasp Factory" 

JOYCE BROTHERS: October 20, 1927 - May 13, 2013: age: 85: respiratory failure: known for her non-fiction book "What Every Woman Should Known About Men" 

TOM CLANCY: April 12, 1947 - October 1, 2013: age: 66: heart failure: known for many best sellers including "The Hunt for Red October" 

ROBERT EBERT: June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013: age: 70: jaw cancer: known for his non-fiction book "Book of Film" 

VINCE FLYNN: April 6, 1966 - June 19, 2013: age: 47: prostate cancer: known for his thrillers such "Extreme Measure" 

 E. L. KONIGSBURG: February 10, 1930 - April 19, 2013: age: 83: stroke: known for her children's book "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" 

DORIS LESSING: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013: age: 94: kidney failure: known for her novel "The Golden Notebook" 

ELMORE LEONARD: October 11, 1925 - August 20, 2013: age: 87: stroke: known for his thrillers such as "Get Shorty" 

RICHARD MATHESON: February 20, 1926 - June 23, 2013: age: 87: natural causes: known for his sci-fi novel "I am Legend" 

BARBARA PARK: April 21, 1947 - November 15, 2013: age: 66: ovarian cancer: known for her children's series "Junie B. Jones" 

FAMOUS WRITERS THAT DIED IN 2014

 MAYA ANGELOU: April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014: age: 86: heart failure: known for her memoir "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"

THOMAS BERGER: July 20, 1924 - July 13, 2014: age: 89: natural causes: known for his novel "Little Big Man" 

NORMAN BRIDWELL: February 15, 1928 - December 12, 2014: age: 86: prostate cancer: known for his series "Clifford the Red Dog" 

NADINE GORDIMER: November 20, 1923 - July 13, 2014: age: 90: natural causes: known for her novel "The Pickup" 

KENT HARUF: February 24, 1943 - November 30, 2014: age: 71: lung disease: known for his novel "Plain Song" 

P. D. JAMES: August 3, 1920 - November 27, 2014: age: 94: natural causes: known for her mysteries such as "Original Sin" 

DANIEL KEYES: August  9, 1927 - June 15, 2014: Age: 86: pneumonia: known for his best seller "Flowers for Algernon" 

BILLIE LETTS: May 30, 1938 - August 2, 2014: age: 76: pneumonia: known for her novel "Where the Heart Is" 

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: March 6, 1927 - April 17, 2014: age: 87: pneumonia: known for his novel "100 Years of Solitude" 

WALTER DEAN MYERS: August 12, 1937 - July 1, 2014: age: pneumonia: known for his young adult books such as "Fallen Angels" 

ROBERT D. SAN SOUCI: October 10, 1946 - December 19, 2014: age: 68: results of a fall: known for his children's book "The Talking Eggs" 

SUE TOWNSEND: April 2, 1946 - April 10, 2014: age: 68: stroke: known for her children's series "Adrian Mole" 

FAMOUS WRITERS WHO DIED IN 2015

JOHN BAYLEY: March 27, 1925 - January 12, 2015: age: 89: heart failure: known for his memoir "Elegy For Iris"

JACKIE COLLINS: October 4, 1937 - September 19, 2015: age: 77: breast cancer: known for her many novels such as  "Hollywood Wives" 

E. L. DOCTOROW: January 6, 1931 - July 21, 2015: age: 84: lung cancer: known for many novels including "Rag Time" 

IVAN DOIG: June 27, 1939 - April 9, 2015: age: 75: myeloma cancer: known for his memoir "This House of Sky" 

GUNTER GRASS: October 16, 1927 - April 13, 2015: age: lung infection: known for dozens of books including "The Tin Drum" 

COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH: June 1, 1937 - January 29, 2015: age: 77: kidney failure: known for her novel "The Thorn Birds"  

TERRY PRATCHETT: April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015: age: 66: Alzheimer's disease: known for his many fantasy novels such as "The Colour of Magic"

RUTH RENDELL: February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015: age: 85: stroke: known for her Inspector Wexford series such as "The Veiled One" 

ANN RULE: October 22, 1931 - July 26, 2015: age: 83: heart failure: known for her many true crime books such as " The Stranger Beside Me" 

OLIVER SACKS: July 9, 1933 - August 30, 2015: age: 82: ocular cancer: known for his non-fiction book "Awakenings"

BERTRICE SMALL: December 9, 1937 - February 15, 2015: age: 77: kidney failure: known for her romances such as "A Dangerous Love" 

FAMOUS WRITERS WHO DIED IN 2016

RICHARD ADAMS: May 9, 1920 - December 24, 2016: age: 96: blood disease: known for his novel "Watership Down" 

EDWARD ALBEE: March 12, 1928 - September 16, 2016: age: 88: natural causes: known for dozens of plays such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" 

NATALIE BABBIT: July 28, 1932 - October 31, 2016: age: 84: lung cancer: known for her children's book "Tuck Everlasting" 

PAT CONROY: October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016: age: 70: pancreatic cancer: known for his novel "The Prince of Tides" 

KATHERINE DUNN: October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016: age: 70: lung cancer: known for her novel "Geek Love: 

UMBERTO ECO: January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016: age: 84: pancreatic cancer: known for his novel "The Name of the Rose"

CARRIE FISHER: October 21, 1956 - December 27, 2016: age: 60: heart attack: known for her novel "Postcards from the Edge" 

MARGARET FORSTER: May 25, 1938 - February 8, 2016: age 77: cancer: known for her novel "The Memory Box" 

JIM HARRISON: December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016: age: 78: heart attack: known for his novella "Legends of the Fall" 

SHIRLEY HAZZARD: January 30, 1931 - December 12, 2016: age: 85: dementia: known for her novel "The Great Fire" 

W. P. KINSELLA: May 25, 1935 - September 16, 2016: age: 81: kidney failure: known for his novel "Shoeless Joe" 

 HARPER LEE: April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016: age: 89: natural causes: known for her renown novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" 

E. M. NATHANSON: February 17, 1928 - April 5, 2016: age: 88: heart failure: known for his novel "The Dirty Dozen" 

GLORIA NAYLOR: January 25, 1950 - September 28, 2016: age: 66: heart attack: known for her novel "The Women of Brewster Place" 

LOUISE RENNISON: October 11, 1951 - February 29, 2016: age: 64: undisclosed: known for her young adult book "Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal snogging" 

WILLIAM TREVOR: May 24, 1928 - November 20, 2016: age: 88: natural causes: known for his novel "The Story of Lucy Gault" 

ELIE WIESEL: September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016: age: 87: natural causes: known for his memoir "Night" 

FAMOUS WRITERS WHO DIED IN 2017

MICHAEL BOND: January 13, 1926 - June 27, 2017: age: 91: natural causes: known for his children's book "A Bear Called Paddington" 

WILLIAM PETER BLATTY: January 7, 1928 - January 12, 2017: age: 89: myeloma cancer: known for his book "The Exorcist" 

PAULA FOX: April 22, 1923 - March 1, 2017: age: 93: natural causes: known for her children's book "One Eyed Cat" 

SUE GRAFTON: April 24, 1940 - December 28, 2017: age: 77: appendix cancer: known for her alphabet mysteries such as "A for Alibi" 

DENIS JOHNSON: July 1, 1949 - May 24, 2017: age: 67: liver cancer: known for his novel "Tree of Smoke" 

ROBERT M. PIRSIG: September 6, 1928 - April 24, 2017: age: 88: natural causes: known for the non-fiction book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" 

SAM SHEPARD: November 5, 1943 - July 27, 2017: age: 73: ALS: known for many plays including "Buried Child" 

ROBERT JAMES WALLER: August 1, 1939 - March 10, 2017: age: 77: myeloma cancer: known for his novel "The Bridges of Madison County"