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"
