Alabama:
Ace Atkins
Rick Bragg
Libba Bray
Ralph Compton
Zelda Fitzgerald
Fannie Flagg
Anne George
Gail Godwin
Linda Howard
Zora Neale Hurston
Helen Keller
Harper Lee
Sena Jeter Naslund
Walker Percy
Gin Phillips
Tobias Wolff
Alaska:
Lucia Berlin
Stan Jones
Dana Stabenow
Arizona:
Nancy Farmer
Diana Gabaldon
Steven Gould
Bentley Little
Jeanette Walls
Arkansas:
John Grisham
Laurell K. Hamilton
Mercer Meyer
Charles Portis
California:
Stephen J. Cannell
Raymond Chandler
Andre Dubus III
Gretel Ehrlich
Bret Easton Ellis
James Ellroy
John Fante
Janet Fitch
Dian Fossey
Don Freeman
Robert Frost
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Daniel Handler
Shirley Jackson
Maxine Hong Kingston
Suzy Kline
Anne Lamott
Arnold Lobel
Jack London
Steve Martini
Walter Mosley
Joan Lowery Nixon
Frank Norris
Scott O'Dell
Julie Otsuka
Ann Patchett
Richard North Patterson
William Saroyan
John Saul
Jane Smiley
John Steinbeck
Irving Stone
Amy Tan
Gail Tsukiyama
Harry Turtledove
Colorado:
Eleanor Estes
Kent Haruf
Ken Kesey
Gladys Taber
Dalton Trumbo
Connecticut:
Candace Bushnell
Suzanne Collins
Caroline B. Cooney
Tomie de Paola
Dominick Dunne
Elizabeth Gilbert
Steven Kellogg
Dave King
Elizabeth Kostova
Wally Lamb
Jay McInerney
Stephenie Meyer
Emily Cheney Neville
E. Annie Proulx
George Selden
Louise Shaffer
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Delaware:
Elizabeth Humphreys Penrose
Lisa Ann Sandell
Florida:
Patricia Cornwell
J.T. Ellison
Patricia Gaffney
Heather Graham
Robert Hicks
Carl Hiaasen
Brenda Jackson
Karen Russell
Georgia:
Olive Ann Burns
Jimmy Carter
Pat Conroy
James Dickey
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sue Monk Kidd
Martin Luther King Jr.
Laura Lippman
Frances Mayes
Carson McCullers
Margaret Mitchell
Flannery O'Connor
Diana Palmer
Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Anne River Siddons
Alice Walker
Stuart Woods
Hawaii:
Lois Lowry
Ian MacMillian
Barack Obama
Idaho:
Carol Ryrie Brink
Chandler Brossard
Ezra Pound
Marilynne Robinson
Beatrice Sparks
Illinois:
Stephen Ambrose
Jean Auel
Richard Bach
Ray Bradbury
Terry Brooks
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Sandra Cisneros
Michael Crichton
Clive Cussler
Jeffrey Deaver
Sarah Dessen
Jennifer Egan
Jim Fergus
Jonathan Franzen
Betty Friedan
Kinky Friedman
William Goldman
Johnny Gruelle
John Gunther
John Jakes
Lorraine Hansberry
Ernest Hemingway
Irene Hunt
Mercedes Lackey
Sue Miller
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Z.Z. Packer
Richard Peck
Richard Powers
Sidney Sheldon
Shel Silverstein
Brad Thor
Scott Turow
Indiana:
Norman Bridwell
Meg Cabot
Kate Collins
Theodore Dreiser
Karen Joy Fowler
John Green
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Ward Just
Haven Kimmel
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Booth Tarkington
Maurice Thompson
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Jessamyn West
Iowa:
Bill Bryson
Eugene Burdick
David Drake
Tami Hoag
Norman Maclean
Vicki Myron
Sara Paretsky
John Sandford
Wallace Stegner
Robert James Waller
Kansas:
Jill Churchill
Kenneth S. Davis
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Jim Lehrer
Bill Martin Jr.
Scott Phillips
Kentucky:
Jude Deveraux
Michael Dorris
Sue Grafton
Suzan-Lori Parks
Hunter S. Thompson
Robert Penn Warren
Louisiana:
Dee Brown
Truman Capote
Robert Crais
Andre Dubus
Ernest J. Gaines
Elmore Leonard
Patricia Maxwell
Anne Rice
John Kennedy Toole
Jennifer Weiner
Rebecca Wells
Maine:
Joe Hill
Stephen King
Tabitha King
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Elizabeth Strout
Maryland:
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Tom Clancy
Emily Giffin
Dashiell Hammett
Karen Hesse
Barbara Kingsolver
Robin Koontz
Munro Leaf
Sharon Lee
Frank Miller
Emily Post
Nora Roberts
Upton Sinclair
Neal Stephenson
Leon Uris
Robert Ward
Massachusetts:
Russell Banks
John Bartlett
Virginia Lee Burton
John Cheever
Pearl Cleage
Robert Cormier
E.E. Cummings
Barbara Delinsky
Jared Diamond
Emily Dickinson
W.E.B. DuBois
Dave Eggers
Esther Forbes
Benjamin Franklin
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
Julia Glass
Noah Gordon
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sebastian Junger
Jack Kerouac
Jon Krakauer
Dennis Lehane
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Eugene O'Neil
Michael Palmer
Robert B. Parker
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
R.A. Salvatore
Richard Scarry
Anne Sexton
Beverly Swerling
Henry David Thoreau
Cynthia Voigt
Michigan:
A. Manette Ansay
K.A. Applegate
Marguerite de Angeli
Pete Dexter
Jeffrey Eugenides
Donald Goines
John Grogan
Judith Guest
E. Lynn Harris
Jim Harrison
Tim LaHaye
Terry McMillian
Audrey Niffenegger
Marisha Pessl
Patricia Polacco
Ann Rule
Jon Scieszka
Chris Van Allsburg
Minnesota:
Charles Baxter
Elizabeth Berg
Leif Enger
Louise Erdrich
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Joanne Fluke
Thomas L. Friedman
Wanda Gag
Garrison Keillor
Chuck Klosterman
Sinclair Lewis
Tim O'Brien
Gary Paulsen
Robert Pirsig
Peggy Rathmann
Anne Tyler
Mississippi
Jimmy Buffet
William Faulker
Shelby Foote
Richard Ford
Ellen Gilchrist
Charlaine Harris
Melinda Haynes
Kathryn Stockett
Donna Tartt
Mildred Taylor
Eudora Welty
Tennesee Williams
Richard Wright
Missouri:
Maya Angelou
Sylvia Browne
William S. Burroughs
Jim Butcher
Dale Carnegie
Kate Chopin
T.S. Eliot
Gillian Flynn
Julie Garwood
Robert Heinlein
Langston Hughes
Stephen Hunter
Paulette Jiles
Faye Kellerman
John Lutz
Katherine Neville
Kay Thompson
Calvin Trillin
Margaret Truman
Lisa Tucker
Mark Twain
Margaret Weis
Montana:
Ivan Doig
Barbara Ehrenreich
Torey Hayden
Thomas Savage
Nebraska:
Harold Thayer Davis
Kenneth C. Flint
Ron Hansen
L. Ron Hubbard
Alex Kava
Daniel Quinn
Nicholas Sparks
Jack Todd
Nevada:
Leigh Bale
Nevada Barr
Deborah Coonts
Jennifer Lauck
Willy Vlautin
New Hampshire:
Dan Brown
John Irving
Carolyn Parkhurst
Eleanor H. Porter
Armstrong Sperry
New Jersey:
Mitch Albom
Frank Asch
Paul Auster
James Baldwin
Judy Blume
Sandra Boynton
Alan Brennert
Iris Chang
Andrew Clements
Harlan Coben
Joanna Cole
James Fenimore Cooper
Stephen Crane
Paula Danziger
Anita Diamant
Janet Evanovich
Allen Ginsberg
Donna Leon
Norman Mailer
Megan McCafferty
Barbara Park
Dorothy Parker
Philip Roth
Michael Shaara
Martha Stewart
Judith Viorst
New Mexico:
Rudolfo Anaya
Louis Bayard
Alisa Valdes
New York:
David A. Adler
Julia Alvarez
Laurie Halse Anderson
Avi
L. Frank Baum
Peter Benchley
John Berendt
William Peter Blatty
Chris Bohjalian
T.C. Boyle
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Margaret Wise Brown
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Eric Carle
Caleb Carr
Francis Pharcellus Church
Mary Higgins Clark
Billy Collins
Bruce Coville
Mark Z. Danielewski
Don Delillo
Nelson Demille
Alan Dershowitz
E.L. Doctorow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eve Ensler
Nora Ephron
Linda Fairstein
Walter Farley
Paula Fox
Alan Furst
Patricia Reilly Giff
Phoebe Gilman
Alex Haley
Pete Hamill
Joseph Heller
Mark Helprin
Syd Hoff
Alice Hoffman
Washington Irving
Susan Isaacs
Rona Jaffe
Henry James
Erica Jong
Ezra Jack Keats
Jonathan Kellerman
Daniel Keyes
E.L. Konigsburg
Madeleine L'Engle
Erik Larson
Jonathan Lethem
Elizabeth Levy
Robert Lipsyte
Robert Ludlum
Gregory Maguire
Bernard Malamud
Ed McBain
Herman Melville
Daniel Mendelsohn
Arthur Miller
Henry Miller
J.R. Moehringer
Walter Dean Myers
Joyce Carol Oates
Cynthia Ozick
James Patterson
Ridley Pearson
Jodi Picoult
Belva Plain
Chaim Potok
Jack Prelutsky
Mario Puzo
Thomas Pynchon
Ruth Reichl
Ann Rinaldi
Harold Robbins
Richard Russo
Louis Sachar
J.D. Salinger
Lawrence Sanders
Alvin Schwartz
David Sedaris
Hubert Selby Jr.
Maurice Sendak
Dani Shapiro
Neil Simon
Betty Smith
Robert Kimmel Smith
Susan Sontag
Mickey Spillane
Todd Strasser
Gore Vidal
Ned Vizzini
Rosemary Wells
E.B. White
Walt Whitman
Eloise Wilkin
Meg Wolitzer
Jane Yolen
Paul Zindel
North Carolina:
Michael Blake
Betsy Byars
Amanda Davis
Bessie Delany
Charles Frazier
Allan Gurganus
Kaye Gibbons
O. Henry
Tom Robbins
Lionel Shriver
Theodore Taylor
Thomas Wolfe
North Dakota:
Louis L'Amour
Larry Watson
Ohio:
Sherwood Anderson
Robert Atkins
Katherine Ayres
Natalie Babbitt
Ambrose Bierce
Erma Bombeck
Louis Bromfield
Sharon Creech
Jennifer Cruise
Michael Cunningham
Anthony Doerr
Elizabeth George
Zane Grey
Cathy Guisewite
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Robert McCloskey
Martha Moody
Christopher Moore
Toni Morrison
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Dav Pilkey
James Purdy
Barbara Robinson
Terry Ryan
Gloria Steinem
R.L. Stine
William Strunk Jr.
James Thurber
Oklahoma:
William Bernhardt
John Berryman
Ralph Ellison
Carolyn Hart
Tony Hillerman
S.E. Hinton
Billie Letts
Mary Pope Osborne
Wilson Rawls
Lane Smith
Sarah Vowell
Karen White
Oregon:
Beverly Cleary
Lisa Gardner
Graham Salisbury
John Varley
Pennsylvania:
Louisa May Alcott
Lloyd Alexander
Melissa Bank
Jan Berenstain
Marc Brown
Augusten Burroughs
Bebe Moore Campbell
Stephen Chbosky
Matt Christopher
Michael Connelly
Kate DiCamillo
Annie Dillard
Lois Duncan
Jack Gantos
Martha Grimes
Jennifer Haigh
Russell Hoban
Dean Koontz
Ann M. Martin
David McCullough
Fern Michaels
James Michener
Robert Munsch
Stewart O'Nan
Anna Quindlen
Conrad Richter
Lisa Scottoline
Martin Cruz Smith
Jerry Spinelli
Danielle Steel
Gertrude Stein
Jacqueline Susann
John Updike
Lauren Weisberger
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Marianne Wiggins
Rhode Island:
Spalding Gray
John Hawkes
David Kessler
H.P. Lovecraft
Cormac McCarthy
Ron McLarty
South Carolina:
Dorothy Allison
Alice Childress
William Gibson
Robert Jordan
Peggy Parish
Barbara Parker
South Dakota:
J.A. Jance
Spencer Johnson
Watson Parker
Tennessee:
James Agee
Eric Jerome Dickey
Louise Fitzhugh
Arthur Golden
Thomas Harris
Texas:
Sandra Brown
James Lee Burke
Catherine Coulter
Allen Drury
Tony Earley
Kim Edwards
Robert Fulghum
Dorothy Garlock
Fred Gipson
John Howard Griffin
Mary Karr
John Lescroart
Max Lucado
James Marshall
Larry McMurty
Oliver North
Katherine Anne Porter
Utah:
Stephen Covey
Richard Paul Evans
Shannon Hale
Brenda Novak
Vermont:
Jeanne Betancourt
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Virginia:
Edward Albee
V.C. Andrews
William H. Armstrong
David Baldacci
Russell Baker
Ann Brashares
Liz Carlyle
Willa Cather
Millie Criswell
Sadie Delany
Claudia Emerson
Earl Hamner, Jr.
Napoleon Hill
Barbara Holland
Sheri Holman
Thomas Jefferson
Gary Jennings
Lee Smith
Rene Steinke
William Styron
Adriana Trigiani
Booker T. Washington
David Wisniewski
Tom Wolfe
Washington:
Sherman Alexie
Richard Brautigan
Orson Scott Card
William Dietrich
David Eddings
Timothy Egan
David Guterson
Frank Herbert
Gary Larson
Debbie Macomber
Chuck Palahniuk
Washington, D.C.
Anne Applebaum
Ann Beattie
Suzanne Berne
Michael Chabon
Tracy Chevalier
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jean Craighead George
Andrew Sean Greer
A.M. Homes
Edward P. Jones
Caroline Kennedy
Armistead Maupin
George Pelecanos
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Porter Shreve
Scott Spencer
Zane
West Virginia:
Pearl S. Buck
Stephen Coonts
Homer Hickman
Jeanne Hines
John Knowles
Walter Dean Myers
Eugenia Price
Cynthia Rylant
Wisconsin:
Lynda Barry
Lan Samantha Chang
Kevin Henkes
Marguerite Henry
Peg Kehret
Ron Kovic
Kris Radish
Alice Sebold
Peter Straub
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thornton Wilder
David Wroblewski
Wyoming:
Craig Johnson
Patricia MacLachlan
Kyle Mills
Todd Parr
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Friday, August 1, 2014
The Country an Author was Born In
This blog lists the country by which these well-known authors were born (but that does not make it his/her ethnicity) This list is of authors that are well-known in America and not their homeland. Unfortunately, many foreign authors do not have the opportunity to have their books translated and sold over seas:
AFGANISTAN:
Khaled Hosseini
ALGERIA:
Yasmina Khadra
ANTIGUA:
Jamaica Kincaid
ARGENTINA:
Jorge Luis Borges
Manuel Puig
AUSTRALIA:
Geraldine Brooks
Peter Carey
James Clavell
Helen Garner
Shirley Hazzard
Thomas Keneally
Colleen McCullough
Jaclyn Moriarty
Kate Morton
Garth Nix
Matthew Reilly
Christina Stead
P.L. Travers
Markus Zusah
AUSTRIA:
Viktor Frankl
Sigmund Freud
Eva Ibbotson
Susan Sheehan
BANGLADESH:
Monica Ali (formerly East Bengal)
BRAZIL:
Jorge Amado
Paulo Coelho
CANADA:
Margaret Atwood
Saul Bellow
Paulette Bourgeois
Eleanor Coerr
Joy Fielding
Sara Gruen
W.P. Kinsella
Gordon Korman
Mary Lawson
Jean Little
Robert MacNeil
L.M. Montgomery
Alice Munro
Al Purdy
CHILE:
Roberto Bolano
Pablo Neruda
CHINA:
J. G. Ballard
Judy Fong Bates
Jung Chang
Yangsze Choo
Confucius
John Hersey
Ha Jin
Janice Y.K. Lee
Bette Bao Lord
Adeline Yen Mah
Anchee Min
Katherine Paterson
Lao She
Dai Sijie
Sun Tzu
Barbara Brooks Wallace
Weihui Zhou
COLUMBIA:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
CZECH REPUBLIC:
Franz Kafka (formerly Austria-Hungary)
Milan Kundera (formerly Czechoslovakia)
Rainer Maria Rilke (formerly Austria-Hungary)
DENMARK:
Hans Christian Andersen
Isak Dinesen
DOMINICAN REPUBLICAN:
Junot Diaz
EGYPT:
Julian Fellowes
Penelope Lively
ENGLAND:
Douglas Adams
Richard Adams
Jeffrey Archer
W.H. Auden
Mary Balogh
Lynne Reid Banks
Graeme Base
L. Frank Baum
Louis de Bernieres
Michael Bond
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Anne Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anthony Burgess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A.S. Byatt
Lord Byron
Lewis Carroll
Geoffrey Chaucer
Agatha Christie
Arthur C. Clarke
Jackie Collins
Wilkie Collins
Roald Dahl
Charles Darwin
Daniel Defoe
R.F. Delderfield
Charles Dickens
Margaret Drabble
George Eliot
Sebastian Faulks
Jasper Fforde
Helen Fielding
Henry Fielding
Penelope Fitzgerald
Ian Fleming
Ken Follett
Ford Madox Ford
E.M. Forster
Dick Francis
Alexandra Fuller
William Golding
Graham Greene
Mark Haddon
Thomas Hardy
Joanne Harris
Stephen Hawking
O. Henry
James Herriot
Jack Higgins
Eric Hill
James Hilton
Nick Hornby
Aldous Huxley
Brian Jacques
P.D. James
John Keats
D.H. Lawrence
John Le Carre
Jhumpa Lahiri
Daphne du Maurier
Peter Mayle
Ian McEwan
A.A. Milne
John Milton
Edith Nesbit
Mary Norton
Anne Perry
Rosamunde Pilcher
Beatrix Potter
Terry Pratchett
Barbara Pym
Peter Mark Roget
J.K. Rowling
Oliver Sacks
Diane Setterfield
Anna Sewell
William Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
Dodie Smith
Zadie Smith
Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
J.R.R. Tolkien
Penny Vincenzi
H.G. Wells
Virginia Woolf
FRANCE:
Honore de Balzac
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Simone de Beauvoir
Pierre Boulle
Jean de Brunhoff
Albert Camus
Colette
Barby D'Aurevilly
Alexandre Dumas
Gustave Flaubert
Philippe Grimbert
Victor Hugo
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Gaston Leroux
W. Somerset Maugham
Moliere
Anais Nin
Nostradamus
Marcel Proust
Tatiana de Rosnay
Edmond Rostand
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Lisa See
Jules Verne
Voltaire
Emila Zola
GERMANY:
Charles Bukowski
Michael Ende
Anne Frank
Cornelia Funke
Johann Goethe
Gunter Grass (then Free City of Danzig)
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Edith Hamilton
Ursula Hegi
Hermann Hesse
Greg Iles
Judith Kerr
Johanna Lindsey
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Thomas Mann
Friedrich Nietzche (then Prussia)
Erich Maria Remarque
H.A. Rey
Bernhard Schlink
W.G. Sebald
GREECE:
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Homer
Plato
Sophocles
HAITI:
John Audubon
Edwidge Danticat
HUNGARY:
Baroness Emma Orczy
INDIA:
Aravind Adiga
John Bayley (formerly British India)
Kiran Desai
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Mahatma Gandhi
Rudyard Kipling (formerly British India)
Bem Le Hunte
Rohinton Mistry
Bharati Mukherjee
George Orwell (formerly British India)
Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
Vikram Seth
Indu Sundaresan
Vikas Swarup
William Makepeace Thackeray (formerly British India)
Thrity Umrigar
T.H. White (formerly British India)
IRAN:
Doris Lessing (formerly Persia)
IRELAND:
Cecelia Ahern
John Banville
Sebastian Barry
Samuel Beckett
Maeve Binchy
John Boyne
Eve Bunting
Eoin Colfer
John Connolly
Seamus Deane
Frank Delaney
Emma Donoghue
Roddy Doyle
Anne Enright
Tana French
Lucy Grealy
Seamus Heaney
James Joyce
Marian Keyes
C.S. Lewis
Frank McCourt
Iris Murdoch
Edna O'Brien
Brendan O'Carroll
Joseph O'Connor
Nuala O'Faolain
Ardal O'Hanlon
George Bernard Shaw
Bram Stoker
Jonathan Swift
Patrick Taylor
Colm Toibin
William Trevor
Oscar Wilde
William Butler Yeats
ISRAEL:
Ayelet Waldman
ITALY:
Dante Alighieri
Ludwig Bemelmans (formerly Austria-Hungary)
Italo Calvino
Carlo Collodi
Umberto Eco
Oriana Fallaci
Primo Levi
Niccolo Machiavelli
Curzio Malaparte
Luigi Pirandello
Virgil
JAMAICAN:
Michelle Cliff
JAPAN:
Kazuo Ishiguro
Natsuo Kirino
Haruki Murakami
Koji Suzuki
Oswald Wynd
KENYA:
Philippa Gregory
KOREA:
Chang-rae Lee
Min Jin Lee
LEBANON:
Kahlil Gibran
MALAYSIA:
Rani Manicka
MEXICO:
Laura Esquivel
Carlos Fuentes
MOROCCO:
Malika Oufkir
NETHERLANDS:
Meindert DeJong
Michel Faber
Leo Lionni
NIGERIA:
Chinua Achebe
NORWAY:
Thor Heyerdahl
Henrik Ibsen
Asne Seierstad
PALESTINE:
Amos Oz (born in Jerusalem in 1939 currently debated capital of Israel and Palestine)
PERU:
Isabel Allende
POLAND:
Jurek Becker Uri Orlev
PORTUGAL:
Jose Saramago
RHODESIA:
Alexander McCall Smith
ROMANIA:
Elie Wiesel
RUSSIA:
Isaac Asimov
Anton Chekhov
Joseph Conrad
Fydor Dostoevsky
Vladimir Nabokov
Irene Nemirovsky
Boris Pasternak
Ayn Rand
Esphyr Slobodkina
Gary Shteyngart
Leo Tolstoy
Leon Trotsky
Ivan Turgenev
SCOTLAND:
Iain Banks
J.M. Barrie
M.C. Beaton
John Buchan
Kenneth Grahame
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ian Rankin
Sir Walter Scott
Muriel Spark
Robert Louis Stevenson
Irvine Welsh
SIERRA LEONE:
Ishmael Bean
SOUTH AFRICA:
J.M. Coetzee
Athol Fugard
Nadine Gordimer
Nelson Mandela
Beverly Naidoo
Alan Paton (Kwazulul-Natal, South Africa)
SOUTHERN RHODESIA:
Peter Godwin
SPAIN:
Miguel de Cervantes
Yann Martel
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
SRI LANKA:
Michael Ondaatje (then Ceylon)
SWEDEN:
Marianne Fredriksson
Stieg Larsson
Astrid Lindgren
Linda Olsson
Art Spiegelman
SWITZERLAND:
Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Johanna Spyri
Johann David Wyss
TRINIDAD:
V.S. Naipaul
TURKEY:
Orhan Pamuk
TAIWAN:
Jean Little
UKRAINE:
Louis Begley
Nikolai Gogol (formerly part of Russian empire)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
James Agee
Edward Albee
Mitch Albom
Louisa May Alcott
Sherman Alexie
Dorothy Allison
Julia Alvarez
Stephen Ambrose
V.C. Andrews
Maya Angelou
Jean Auel
Paul Auster
James Baldwin
Russell Banks
Elizabeth Berg
William Peter Blatty
Judy Blume
Chris Bohjalian
Erma Bombeck
T.C. Boyle
Ray Bradbury
Richard Brautigan
Terry Brooks
Dan Brown
Margaret Wise Brown
Pearl S. Buck
Edgar Rice Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
Candace Bushnell
Meg Cabot
Truman Capote
Orson Scott Card
Willa Cather
Michael Chabon
Stephen Chbosky
John Cheever
Kate Chopin
Tom Clancy
Mary Higgins Clark
Beverly Cleary
Harlan Coben
Pat Conroy
Robin Cook
James Fenimore Cooper
Robert Cormier
Patricia Cornwell
Michael Crichton
E.E. Cummings
Clive Cussler
Jeffrey Deaver
Nelson Demille
Tomie de Paola
Kate DiCamillo
Emily Dickinson
Annie Dillard
E.L. Doctorow
Michael Dorris
Theodore Dreiser
Lois Duncan
Dave Eggers
T.S. Eliot
Bret Easton Ellis
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eve Ensler
Nora Ephron
Louise Erdrich
Jeffrey Eugenides
Janet Evanovich
Linda Fairstein
William Faulker
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fannie Flagg
Dian Fossey
Betty Friedan
Robert Frost
Diana Gabaldon
Ernest J. Gaines
Theodor Geisel (Dr.Seuss)
Elizabeth George
Kaye Gibbons
Emily Giffin
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Allen Ginsberg
Fred Gipson
Sue Grafton
Zane Grey
John Grisham
John Grogan
Judith Guest
David Guterson
Alex Haley
Pete Hamill
Lorraine Hansberry
Thomas Harris
Kent Haruf
Stephen Hawking
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Carl Hiaasen
Oscar Hijuelos
Tony Hillerman
Tami Hoag
Russell Hoban
Alice Hoffman
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
John Irving
Washington Irving
Shirley Jackson
John Jakes
Henry James
Sebastian Junger
Mary Karr
Ezra Jack Keats
Helen Keller
Jonathan Kellerman
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Sue Monk Kidd
Stephen King
Barbara Kingsolver
Maxine Hong Kingston
E.L. Konigsburg
Dean Koontz
Jon Krakauer
Judith Krantz
Louis L'Amour
Madeleine L'Engle
Wally Lamb
Anne Lamott
Erik Larson
Harper Lee
Elmore Leonard
Sinclair Lewis
Hugh Lofting
Jack London
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
H.P. Lovecraft
Lois Lowry
Robert Ludlum
Patricia MacLachlan
Gregory Maguire
Norman Mailer
Bernard Malamud
Bill Martin Jr.
Steve Martini
Cormac McCarthy
Robert McCloskey
Carson McCullers
David McCullough
Jay McInerney
Ron McLarty
Terry McMillian
Larry McMurty
Herman Melville
James Michener
Arthur Miller
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Margaret Mitchell
J.R. Moehringer
Toni Morrison
Walter Mosley
Walter Dean Myers
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Joan Lowery Nixon
Tim O'Brien
Flannery O'Connor
Eugene O'Neil
Joyce Carol Oates
Z.Z. Packer
Chuck Palahniuk
Barbara Park
Dorothy Parker
Ann Patchett
James Patterson
Gary Paulsen
Richard Peck
Jodi Picoult
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Chaim Potok
Terry Pratchett
E. Annie Proulx
Mario Puzo
Thomas Pynchon
Anna Quindlen
Harold Robbins
Nora Roberts
Philip Roth
Richard Russo
Louis Sachar
J.D. Salinger
William Saroyan
R.A. Salvatore
John Sandford
Richard Scarry
Lisa Scottoline
Alice Sebold
David Sedaris
Maurice Sendak
Ann Seton
Diane Setterfield
Anne Sexton
Sidney Sheldon
Anne Rivers Siddons
Shel Silverstein
Neil Simon
Upton Sinclair
Betty Smith
Susan Sontag
Nicholas Sparks
Jerry Spinelli
Danielle Steel
Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Elizabeth Strout
William Styron
Jacqueline Susann
Amy Tan
Hunter S. Thompson
Henry David Thoreau
Adriana Trigiani
Margaret Truman
Gail Tsukiyama
Scott Turow
Mark Twain
Anne Tyler
John Updike
Leon Uris
Judith Viorst
Cynthia Voigt
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Alice Walker
Jeanette Walls
Jennifer Weiner
Edith Wharton
E.B. White
Walt Whitman
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Tennesee Williams
Tom Wolfe
Tobias Wolff
Stuart Woods
Herman Wouk
Richard Wright
VIETNAM:
Marguerite Duras (Saigon, formerly Gia-Dinh, French Territory)
Huynh Quang Nhuong
ZAMBIA:
Wilbur Smith (formerly Northern Rhodesia)
AFGANISTAN:
Khaled Hosseini
ALGERIA:
Yasmina Khadra
ANTIGUA:
Jamaica Kincaid
ARGENTINA:
Jorge Luis Borges
Manuel Puig
AUSTRALIA:
Geraldine Brooks
Peter Carey
James Clavell
Helen Garner
Shirley Hazzard
Thomas Keneally
Colleen McCullough
Jaclyn Moriarty
Kate Morton
Garth Nix
Matthew Reilly
Christina Stead
P.L. Travers
Markus Zusah
AUSTRIA:
Viktor Frankl
Sigmund Freud
Eva Ibbotson
Susan Sheehan
BANGLADESH:
Monica Ali (formerly East Bengal)
BRAZIL:
Jorge Amado
Paulo Coelho
CANADA:
Margaret Atwood
Saul Bellow
Paulette Bourgeois
Eleanor Coerr
Joy Fielding
Sara Gruen
W.P. Kinsella
Gordon Korman
Mary Lawson
Jean Little
Robert MacNeil
L.M. Montgomery
Alice Munro
Al Purdy
CHILE:
Roberto Bolano
Pablo Neruda
CHINA:
J. G. Ballard
Judy Fong Bates
Jung Chang
Yangsze Choo
Confucius
John Hersey
Ha Jin
Janice Y.K. Lee
Bette Bao Lord
Adeline Yen Mah
Anchee Min
Katherine Paterson
Lao She
Dai Sijie
Sun Tzu
Barbara Brooks Wallace
Weihui Zhou
COLUMBIA:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
CZECH REPUBLIC:
Franz Kafka (formerly Austria-Hungary)
Milan Kundera (formerly Czechoslovakia)
Rainer Maria Rilke (formerly Austria-Hungary)
DENMARK:
Hans Christian Andersen
Isak Dinesen
DOMINICAN REPUBLICAN:
Junot Diaz
EGYPT:
Julian Fellowes
Penelope Lively
ENGLAND:
Douglas Adams
Richard Adams
Jeffrey Archer
W.H. Auden
Mary Balogh
Lynne Reid Banks
Graeme Base
L. Frank Baum
Louis de Bernieres
Michael Bond
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Anne Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anthony Burgess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A.S. Byatt
Lord Byron
Lewis Carroll
Geoffrey Chaucer
Agatha Christie
Arthur C. Clarke
Jackie Collins
Wilkie Collins
Roald Dahl
Charles Darwin
Daniel Defoe
R.F. Delderfield
Charles Dickens
Margaret Drabble
George Eliot
Sebastian Faulks
Jasper Fforde
Helen Fielding
Henry Fielding
Penelope Fitzgerald
Ian Fleming
Ken Follett
Ford Madox Ford
E.M. Forster
Dick Francis
Alexandra Fuller
William Golding
Graham Greene
Mark Haddon
Thomas Hardy
Joanne Harris
Stephen Hawking
O. Henry
James Herriot
Jack Higgins
Eric Hill
James Hilton
Nick Hornby
Aldous Huxley
Brian Jacques
P.D. James
John Keats
D.H. Lawrence
John Le Carre
Jhumpa Lahiri
Daphne du Maurier
Peter Mayle
Ian McEwan
A.A. Milne
John Milton
Edith Nesbit
Mary Norton
Anne Perry
Rosamunde Pilcher
Beatrix Potter
Terry Pratchett
Barbara Pym
Peter Mark Roget
J.K. Rowling
Oliver Sacks
Diane Setterfield
Anna Sewell
William Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
Dodie Smith
Zadie Smith
Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
J.R.R. Tolkien
Penny Vincenzi
H.G. Wells
Virginia Woolf
FRANCE:
Honore de Balzac
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Simone de Beauvoir
Pierre Boulle
Jean de Brunhoff
Albert Camus
Colette
Barby D'Aurevilly
Alexandre Dumas
Gustave Flaubert
Philippe Grimbert
Victor Hugo
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Gaston Leroux
W. Somerset Maugham
Moliere
Anais Nin
Nostradamus
Marcel Proust
Tatiana de Rosnay
Edmond Rostand
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Lisa See
Jules Verne
Voltaire
Emila Zola
GERMANY:
Charles Bukowski
Michael Ende
Anne Frank
Cornelia Funke
Johann Goethe
Gunter Grass (then Free City of Danzig)
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Edith Hamilton
Ursula Hegi
Hermann Hesse
Greg Iles
Judith Kerr
Johanna Lindsey
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Thomas Mann
Friedrich Nietzche (then Prussia)
Erich Maria Remarque
H.A. Rey
Bernhard Schlink
W.G. Sebald
GREECE:
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Homer
Plato
Sophocles
HAITI:
John Audubon
Edwidge Danticat
HUNGARY:
Baroness Emma Orczy
INDIA:
Aravind Adiga
John Bayley (formerly British India)
Kiran Desai
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Mahatma Gandhi
Rudyard Kipling (formerly British India)
Bem Le Hunte
Rohinton Mistry
Bharati Mukherjee
George Orwell (formerly British India)
Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
Vikram Seth
Indu Sundaresan
Vikas Swarup
William Makepeace Thackeray (formerly British India)
Thrity Umrigar
T.H. White (formerly British India)
IRAN:
Doris Lessing (formerly Persia)
IRELAND:
Cecelia Ahern
John Banville
Sebastian Barry
Samuel Beckett
Maeve Binchy
John Boyne
Eve Bunting
Eoin Colfer
John Connolly
Seamus Deane
Frank Delaney
Emma Donoghue
Roddy Doyle
Anne Enright
Tana French
Lucy Grealy
Seamus Heaney
James Joyce
Marian Keyes
C.S. Lewis
Frank McCourt
Iris Murdoch
Edna O'Brien
Brendan O'Carroll
Joseph O'Connor
Nuala O'Faolain
Ardal O'Hanlon
George Bernard Shaw
Bram Stoker
Jonathan Swift
Patrick Taylor
Colm Toibin
William Trevor
Oscar Wilde
William Butler Yeats
ISRAEL:
Ayelet Waldman
ITALY:
Dante Alighieri
Ludwig Bemelmans (formerly Austria-Hungary)
Italo Calvino
Carlo Collodi
Umberto Eco
Oriana Fallaci
Primo Levi
Niccolo Machiavelli
Curzio Malaparte
Luigi Pirandello
Virgil
JAMAICAN:
Michelle Cliff
JAPAN:
Kazuo Ishiguro
Natsuo Kirino
Haruki Murakami
Koji Suzuki
Oswald Wynd
KENYA:
Philippa Gregory
KOREA:
Chang-rae Lee
Min Jin Lee
LEBANON:
Kahlil Gibran
MALAYSIA:
Rani Manicka
MEXICO:
Laura Esquivel
Carlos Fuentes
MOROCCO:
Malika Oufkir
NETHERLANDS:
Meindert DeJong
Michel Faber
Leo Lionni
NIGERIA:
Chinua Achebe
NORWAY:
Thor Heyerdahl
Henrik Ibsen
Asne Seierstad
PALESTINE:
Amos Oz (born in Jerusalem in 1939 currently debated capital of Israel and Palestine)
PERU:
Isabel Allende
POLAND:
Jurek Becker Uri Orlev
PORTUGAL:
Jose Saramago
RHODESIA:
Alexander McCall Smith
ROMANIA:
Elie Wiesel
RUSSIA:
Isaac Asimov
Anton Chekhov
Joseph Conrad
Fydor Dostoevsky
Vladimir Nabokov
Irene Nemirovsky
Boris Pasternak
Ayn Rand
Esphyr Slobodkina
Gary Shteyngart
Leo Tolstoy
Leon Trotsky
Ivan Turgenev
SCOTLAND:
Iain Banks
J.M. Barrie
M.C. Beaton
John Buchan
Kenneth Grahame
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ian Rankin
Sir Walter Scott
Muriel Spark
Robert Louis Stevenson
Irvine Welsh
SIERRA LEONE:
Ishmael Bean
SOUTH AFRICA:
J.M. Coetzee
Athol Fugard
Nadine Gordimer
Nelson Mandela
Beverly Naidoo
Alan Paton (Kwazulul-Natal, South Africa)
SOUTHERN RHODESIA:
Peter Godwin
SPAIN:
Miguel de Cervantes
Yann Martel
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
SRI LANKA:
Michael Ondaatje (then Ceylon)
SWEDEN:
Marianne Fredriksson
Stieg Larsson
Astrid Lindgren
Linda Olsson
Art Spiegelman
SWITZERLAND:
Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Johanna Spyri
Johann David Wyss
TRINIDAD:
V.S. Naipaul
TURKEY:
Orhan Pamuk
TAIWAN:
Jean Little
UKRAINE:
Louis Begley
Nikolai Gogol (formerly part of Russian empire)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
James Agee
Edward Albee
Mitch Albom
Louisa May Alcott
Sherman Alexie
Dorothy Allison
Julia Alvarez
Stephen Ambrose
V.C. Andrews
Maya Angelou
Jean Auel
Paul Auster
James Baldwin
Russell Banks
Elizabeth Berg
William Peter Blatty
Judy Blume
Chris Bohjalian
Erma Bombeck
T.C. Boyle
Ray Bradbury
Richard Brautigan
Terry Brooks
Dan Brown
Margaret Wise Brown
Pearl S. Buck
Edgar Rice Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
Candace Bushnell
Meg Cabot
Truman Capote
Orson Scott Card
Willa Cather
Michael Chabon
Stephen Chbosky
John Cheever
Kate Chopin
Tom Clancy
Mary Higgins Clark
Beverly Cleary
Harlan Coben
Pat Conroy
Robin Cook
James Fenimore Cooper
Robert Cormier
Patricia Cornwell
Michael Crichton
E.E. Cummings
Clive Cussler
Jeffrey Deaver
Nelson Demille
Tomie de Paola
Kate DiCamillo
Emily Dickinson
Annie Dillard
E.L. Doctorow
Michael Dorris
Theodore Dreiser
Lois Duncan
Dave Eggers
T.S. Eliot
Bret Easton Ellis
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eve Ensler
Nora Ephron
Louise Erdrich
Jeffrey Eugenides
Janet Evanovich
Linda Fairstein
William Faulker
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fannie Flagg
Dian Fossey
Betty Friedan
Robert Frost
Diana Gabaldon
Ernest J. Gaines
Theodor Geisel (Dr.Seuss)
Elizabeth George
Kaye Gibbons
Emily Giffin
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Allen Ginsberg
Fred Gipson
Sue Grafton
Zane Grey
John Grisham
John Grogan
Judith Guest
David Guterson
Alex Haley
Pete Hamill
Lorraine Hansberry
Thomas Harris
Kent Haruf
Stephen Hawking
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Carl Hiaasen
Oscar Hijuelos
Tony Hillerman
Tami Hoag
Russell Hoban
Alice Hoffman
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
John Irving
Washington Irving
Shirley Jackson
John Jakes
Henry James
Sebastian Junger
Mary Karr
Ezra Jack Keats
Helen Keller
Jonathan Kellerman
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Sue Monk Kidd
Stephen King
Barbara Kingsolver
Maxine Hong Kingston
E.L. Konigsburg
Dean Koontz
Jon Krakauer
Judith Krantz
Louis L'Amour
Madeleine L'Engle
Wally Lamb
Anne Lamott
Erik Larson
Harper Lee
Elmore Leonard
Sinclair Lewis
Hugh Lofting
Jack London
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
H.P. Lovecraft
Lois Lowry
Robert Ludlum
Patricia MacLachlan
Gregory Maguire
Norman Mailer
Bernard Malamud
Bill Martin Jr.
Steve Martini
Cormac McCarthy
Robert McCloskey
Carson McCullers
David McCullough
Jay McInerney
Ron McLarty
Terry McMillian
Larry McMurty
Herman Melville
James Michener
Arthur Miller
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Margaret Mitchell
J.R. Moehringer
Toni Morrison
Walter Mosley
Walter Dean Myers
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Joan Lowery Nixon
Tim O'Brien
Flannery O'Connor
Eugene O'Neil
Joyce Carol Oates
Z.Z. Packer
Chuck Palahniuk
Barbara Park
Dorothy Parker
Ann Patchett
James Patterson
Gary Paulsen
Richard Peck
Jodi Picoult
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Chaim Potok
Terry Pratchett
E. Annie Proulx
Mario Puzo
Thomas Pynchon
Anna Quindlen
Harold Robbins
Nora Roberts
Philip Roth
Richard Russo
Louis Sachar
J.D. Salinger
William Saroyan
R.A. Salvatore
John Sandford
Richard Scarry
Lisa Scottoline
Alice Sebold
David Sedaris
Maurice Sendak
Ann Seton
Diane Setterfield
Anne Sexton
Sidney Sheldon
Anne Rivers Siddons
Shel Silverstein
Neil Simon
Upton Sinclair
Betty Smith
Susan Sontag
Nicholas Sparks
Jerry Spinelli
Danielle Steel
Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Elizabeth Strout
William Styron
Jacqueline Susann
Amy Tan
Hunter S. Thompson
Henry David Thoreau
Adriana Trigiani
Margaret Truman
Gail Tsukiyama
Scott Turow
Mark Twain
Anne Tyler
John Updike
Leon Uris
Judith Viorst
Cynthia Voigt
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Alice Walker
Jeanette Walls
Jennifer Weiner
Edith Wharton
E.B. White
Walt Whitman
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Tennesee Williams
Tom Wolfe
Tobias Wolff
Stuart Woods
Herman Wouk
Richard Wright
VIETNAM:
Marguerite Duras (Saigon, formerly Gia-Dinh, French Territory)
Huynh Quang Nhuong
ZAMBIA:
Wilbur Smith (formerly Northern Rhodesia)
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Author's Pen Name
Alphabetized by the author's Pen Name:
A:
Chinua Achebe: Albert Achebe
Woody Allen: Allan Konigsberg
V.C. Andrews: Cleo Virginia Andrews
Maya Angelou: Marguerite Johnson
Piers Anthony: Piers Jacob
W.H. Auden: Wystan Hugh Auden
AVI: Edward Wortis
B:
Richard Bachman: Stephen King
J.G. Ballard: James Graham Ballard
L.A. Banks: Leslie Esdaile Banks
J.M. Barrie: James Matthew Barrie
L. Frank Baum: Lyman Frank Baum
Saul Bellow: Solomon Bellow
T.C. Boyle: Tom Coraghessan Boyle
Dee Brown: Dorris Brown
Charles Bukowski: Heinrich Bukowski
Anthony Burgess: John Wilson
Leo Buscaglia: Felice Buscaglia
Lord Byron: George Byron
C:
Joseph Conrad: Jozef Korzenlowski
Truman Capote: Truman Persons
Lewis Carroll: Charles Dodgson
Diablo Cody: Brook Busey
J.M. Coetzee: John Maxwell Coetzee
Brian Coffey: Dean Koontz
Colette: Sidonie-Grabrielle Colette
Wilkie Collins: William Collins
Joseph Conrad: Jozef Korzeniowski
Robin Cook: Robert Cook
e.e. Cummings: Edward Estlin Cummings
D:
Daniel DeFoe: Daniel Foe
R.F. Delderfield: Ronald Frederick Delderfield
Isak Dinesen: Karen Bixen
E.L. Doctorow: Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
Shannon Drake: Heather Drake
W.E.B. Du Bois: William Edward Burghardt
Alexandre Dumas: Dumas de le Pailleterie
E:
George Eliot: Mary Ann Evans
T.S. Eliot: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Louise Erdrich: Karen Erdrich
F:
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Fannie Flagg: Patricia Neal
Ford Madox Ford: Ford Hueffer
C.S. Forester: Cecil Smith
E.M. Forster: Edward Morgan Forster
Kinky Friedman: Richard Friedman
Nikki French: Nicci Gerrand and Sean French
G:
Robert Galbraith: J.K. Rowling
Allen Ginsberg: Irwin Ginsberg
Graham Greene: Henry Greene
Zane Grey: Pearl Grey
W.E.B. Griffin: William Edmund Butterworth III
H:
E. Lynn Harris: Everette Lynn Harris
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Nathaniel Hathorne
O. Henry: William Porter
James Herriot: James Wight
Jack Higgins: Harry Patterson
Joe Hill: Joseph King
S.E. Hinton: Susan Eloise Hinton
Tami Hoag: Tami Mikkelson
Syd Hoff: Sydney Hoffberg
Abbie Hoffman: Abbot Hoffman
A.M. Homes: Amy Homes
Langston Hughes: James Hughes
I:
John Irving: John Blunt Jr.
J:
E.L. James: Erika Leonard
P.D. James: Phyllis Dorothy James
J.A. Jance: Judith Anne Jance
Crocket Johnson: David Leisk
Robert Jordan: James Rigney Jr.
K:
Alex Kava: Sharon Kava
Ezra Jack Keats: Jacob Katz
Garrison Keillor: Gary Keillor
Jack Kerouac: Jean-Louis Kerouac
M.E. Kerr: Marijane Meaker
Jamaica Kincaid: Elaine Richardson
Sophie Kinsella: Madeleine Wickham
Rudyard Kipling: Joseph Kipling
E.L. Konigsburg: Elaine Lobl Konigsburg
L:
D.H. Lawrence: David Herbert Lawrence
John le Carre: David Cornwell
Stan Lee: Stanley Lieber
C.S. Lewis: Clive Staples Lewis
Sinclair Lewis: Harry Lewis
Jack London: John Chaney
H.P. Lovecraft: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
M:
W. Somerset Maugham: William Somerset Maugham
Ed McBain: Salvatore Lombino
Cormac McCarthy: Charles McCarthy
Fern Michaels: Mary Kuczkor
A.A. Milne: Alan Alexander Milne
Moliere: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
L.M. Montgomery: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Toni Morrison: Chloe Wofford
N:
V.S. Naipaul: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Nasdijj: Timothy Barrus
Pablo Neruda: Neftali Basoalto
Anais Nin: Angela Culmell
Nostradamus: MIchael de Nostradame
O:
Flannery O'Connor: Mary O'Connor
Scott O'Dell: O'Dell Scott
Uri Orlev: Jerzy Orlowski
George Orwell: Eric Blair
Amos Oz: Amos Klausner
P:
Z.Z. Packer: Zuwena Packer
Anne Perry: Juliet Hulme
Elizabeth Peters: Barbara Mertz
Christopher Pike: Kevin McFadden
Chaim Potok: Herman Potok
Beatrix Potter: Helen Potter
Marcel Proust: Valentin Proust
Q:
Amanda Quick: Jayne Ann Krentz
R:
Ayn Rand: Alisa Rosenbaum
Erich Maria Remarque: Erich Remark
H.A. Rey: Hans Augusto Rey
Anne Rice: Howard O'Brien
Rainer Maria Rilke: Rene Rilke
J.D. Robb: Nora Roberts
Harold Robbins: Harold Ruben
J.K. Rowling: Joanne Rowling
Arundhati Roy: Suzanna Roy
Salman Rushdie: Ahmed Rushdie
S:
J.D. Salinger: Jerome David Salinger
R.A. Salvatore: Robert Anthony Salvatore
John Sandford: John Camp
Sapphire: Ramona Lofton
W.G. Sebald: Winfried Georg Sebald
E.C. Segar: Elzie Crisler Segar
Anya Seton: Ann Seton
Dr. Seuss: Theodore Geisel
Sidney Sheldon: Sidney Schechtel
Lionel Shriver: Margaret Shriver
Shel Silverstein: Sheldon Silverstein
Curtis Sittenfeld: Elizabeth Sittenfeld
Iceberg Slim: Robert Beck
Dodie Smith: Dorothy Smith
Lemony Snicket: Daniel Handler
Mickey Spillane: Frank Spillane
R.L. Stine: Robert Lawrence Stine
Bram Stoker: Abraham Stroker
Irving Stone: Irving Tannenbaum
T:
Lord Tennyson: Alfred Tennyson
J.R.R. Tolkien: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Eckhart Tolle: Ulrich Tolle
Leo Tolstoy: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
P.L. Travers: Helen Goff
Dalton Trumbo: James Trumbo
Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens
V:
Gore Vidal: Eugene Vidal
Voltaire: Francois-Marie Arouet
W:
H.G. Wells: Herbert George Wells
E.B. White: Elwyn Brooks White
T.H. White: Terence Hanbury White
Elie Wiesel: Eliezer Wiesel
Tennessee Williams: Thomas Williams
Z:
Zane: Kristina Roberts
A:
Chinua Achebe: Albert Achebe
Woody Allen: Allan Konigsberg
V.C. Andrews: Cleo Virginia Andrews
Maya Angelou: Marguerite Johnson
Piers Anthony: Piers Jacob
W.H. Auden: Wystan Hugh Auden
AVI: Edward Wortis
B:
Richard Bachman: Stephen King
J.G. Ballard: James Graham Ballard
L.A. Banks: Leslie Esdaile Banks
J.M. Barrie: James Matthew Barrie
L. Frank Baum: Lyman Frank Baum
Saul Bellow: Solomon Bellow
T.C. Boyle: Tom Coraghessan Boyle
Dee Brown: Dorris Brown
Charles Bukowski: Heinrich Bukowski
Anthony Burgess: John Wilson
Leo Buscaglia: Felice Buscaglia
Lord Byron: George Byron
C:
Joseph Conrad: Jozef Korzenlowski
Truman Capote: Truman Persons
Lewis Carroll: Charles Dodgson
Diablo Cody: Brook Busey
J.M. Coetzee: John Maxwell Coetzee
Brian Coffey: Dean Koontz
Colette: Sidonie-Grabrielle Colette
Wilkie Collins: William Collins
Joseph Conrad: Jozef Korzeniowski
Robin Cook: Robert Cook
e.e. Cummings: Edward Estlin Cummings
D:
Daniel DeFoe: Daniel Foe
R.F. Delderfield: Ronald Frederick Delderfield
Isak Dinesen: Karen Bixen
E.L. Doctorow: Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
Shannon Drake: Heather Drake
W.E.B. Du Bois: William Edward Burghardt
Alexandre Dumas: Dumas de le Pailleterie
E:
George Eliot: Mary Ann Evans
T.S. Eliot: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Louise Erdrich: Karen Erdrich
F:
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Fannie Flagg: Patricia Neal
Ford Madox Ford: Ford Hueffer
C.S. Forester: Cecil Smith
E.M. Forster: Edward Morgan Forster
Kinky Friedman: Richard Friedman
Nikki French: Nicci Gerrand and Sean French
G:
Robert Galbraith: J.K. Rowling
Allen Ginsberg: Irwin Ginsberg
Graham Greene: Henry Greene
Zane Grey: Pearl Grey
W.E.B. Griffin: William Edmund Butterworth III
H:
E. Lynn Harris: Everette Lynn Harris
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Nathaniel Hathorne
O. Henry: William Porter
James Herriot: James Wight
Jack Higgins: Harry Patterson
Joe Hill: Joseph King
S.E. Hinton: Susan Eloise Hinton
Tami Hoag: Tami Mikkelson
Syd Hoff: Sydney Hoffberg
Abbie Hoffman: Abbot Hoffman
A.M. Homes: Amy Homes
Langston Hughes: James Hughes
I:
John Irving: John Blunt Jr.
J:
E.L. James: Erika Leonard
P.D. James: Phyllis Dorothy James
J.A. Jance: Judith Anne Jance
Crocket Johnson: David Leisk
Robert Jordan: James Rigney Jr.
K:
Alex Kava: Sharon Kava
Ezra Jack Keats: Jacob Katz
Garrison Keillor: Gary Keillor
Jack Kerouac: Jean-Louis Kerouac
M.E. Kerr: Marijane Meaker
Jamaica Kincaid: Elaine Richardson
Sophie Kinsella: Madeleine Wickham
Rudyard Kipling: Joseph Kipling
E.L. Konigsburg: Elaine Lobl Konigsburg
L:
D.H. Lawrence: David Herbert Lawrence
John le Carre: David Cornwell
Stan Lee: Stanley Lieber
C.S. Lewis: Clive Staples Lewis
Sinclair Lewis: Harry Lewis
Jack London: John Chaney
H.P. Lovecraft: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
M:
W. Somerset Maugham: William Somerset Maugham
Ed McBain: Salvatore Lombino
Cormac McCarthy: Charles McCarthy
Fern Michaels: Mary Kuczkor
A.A. Milne: Alan Alexander Milne
Moliere: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
L.M. Montgomery: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Toni Morrison: Chloe Wofford
N:
V.S. Naipaul: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Nasdijj: Timothy Barrus
Pablo Neruda: Neftali Basoalto
Anais Nin: Angela Culmell
Nostradamus: MIchael de Nostradame
O:
Flannery O'Connor: Mary O'Connor
Scott O'Dell: O'Dell Scott
Uri Orlev: Jerzy Orlowski
George Orwell: Eric Blair
Amos Oz: Amos Klausner
P:
Z.Z. Packer: Zuwena Packer
Anne Perry: Juliet Hulme
Elizabeth Peters: Barbara Mertz
Christopher Pike: Kevin McFadden
Chaim Potok: Herman Potok
Beatrix Potter: Helen Potter
Marcel Proust: Valentin Proust
Q:
Amanda Quick: Jayne Ann Krentz
R:
Ayn Rand: Alisa Rosenbaum
Erich Maria Remarque: Erich Remark
H.A. Rey: Hans Augusto Rey
Anne Rice: Howard O'Brien
Rainer Maria Rilke: Rene Rilke
J.D. Robb: Nora Roberts
Harold Robbins: Harold Ruben
J.K. Rowling: Joanne Rowling
Arundhati Roy: Suzanna Roy
Salman Rushdie: Ahmed Rushdie
S:
J.D. Salinger: Jerome David Salinger
R.A. Salvatore: Robert Anthony Salvatore
John Sandford: John Camp
Sapphire: Ramona Lofton
W.G. Sebald: Winfried Georg Sebald
E.C. Segar: Elzie Crisler Segar
Anya Seton: Ann Seton
Dr. Seuss: Theodore Geisel
Sidney Sheldon: Sidney Schechtel
Lionel Shriver: Margaret Shriver
Shel Silverstein: Sheldon Silverstein
Curtis Sittenfeld: Elizabeth Sittenfeld
Iceberg Slim: Robert Beck
Dodie Smith: Dorothy Smith
Lemony Snicket: Daniel Handler
Mickey Spillane: Frank Spillane
R.L. Stine: Robert Lawrence Stine
Bram Stoker: Abraham Stroker
Irving Stone: Irving Tannenbaum
T:
Lord Tennyson: Alfred Tennyson
J.R.R. Tolkien: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Eckhart Tolle: Ulrich Tolle
Leo Tolstoy: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
P.L. Travers: Helen Goff
Dalton Trumbo: James Trumbo
Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens
V:
Gore Vidal: Eugene Vidal
Voltaire: Francois-Marie Arouet
W:
H.G. Wells: Herbert George Wells
E.B. White: Elwyn Brooks White
T.H. White: Terence Hanbury White
Elie Wiesel: Eliezer Wiesel
Tennessee Williams: Thomas Williams
Z:
Zane: Kristina Roberts
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Celebrities Lost to Cancer
Cancer affects almost all families. Now a days, sadly it's not IF i get cancer, it's WHEN. These celebrities were taken by the disease. Most cancers can be prevented. Get YEARLY physicals, get a cat scan, get a mammogram, get a colonoscopy. Get early screening if cancer runs in your family. You're WORTH IT.
Here are some cancer foundations to donate to:
American Cancer Society
Susan G. Komen for the Cure (breast cancer)
St. Jude (children's cancer fund)
ANAL CANCER:
Farrah Fawcett: age 62: actress
Gwen Welles: age 42: actress
APPENDIX CANCER: (rare)
Carol Higgins Clark: age 66: writer
American Cancer Society
Susan G. Komen for the Cure (breast cancer)
St. Jude (children's cancer fund)
American Lung Association (lung cancer)
Stand Up To Cancer
Colon Cancer Foundation
Colon Cancer Coalition
ADRENAL GLAND: (rare)
James Gammon: age 70: actor
Farrah Fawcett: age 62: actress
Gwen Welles: age 42: actress
APPENDIX CANCER: (rare)
Carol Higgins Clark: age 66: writer
Sue Grafton: age: 77: writer
Audrey Hepburn: age 63: actress
Jeannie Morris: 85: journalist
BILE DUCT CANCER: (rare)
Karen Black: age 74: actress
Tommy Ramone: age 65: musician
BILE DUCT CANCER: (rare)
Karen Black: age 74: actress
Tommy Ramone: age 65: musician
David James Redford: age 58: director
BLADDER CANCER:
Ray Bolger: age 83: actor
Eileen Brennan: age 80: actress
Dominick Dunne: age 83: writer
Earl Hamner Jr.: age 92: writer
Jack Lemmon: age 76: actor
BLADDER CANCER:
Ray Bolger: age 83: actor
Eileen Brennan: age 80: actress
Dominick Dunne: age 83: writer
Earl Hamner Jr.: age 92: writer
Jack Lemmon: age 76: actor
Barney Martin: age 82: actor
Edward G. Robinson: age 79: actor
Fernando Rey: age 76: actor
Telly Savalas: age 72: actor
Frank Sinatra: age 82: singer
McLean Stevenson: age 68: actor
David Ogden Stiers: age 75: actor
George Tobias: age 78: actor
Andy Williams: age 84: musician
BLOOD CANCER: (rare)
Christine Cavanaugh: age 51: actress
Edward G. Robinson: age 79: actor
Fernando Rey: age 76: actor
Telly Savalas: age 72: actor
Frank Sinatra: age 82: singer
McLean Stevenson: age 68: actor
David Ogden Stiers: age 75: actor
George Tobias: age 78: actor
Andy Williams: age 84: musician
BLOOD CANCER: (rare)
Christine Cavanaugh: age 51: actress
Gower Champion: age 61: actor
Philip Coppens: age 41: writer
Philip Coppens: age 41: writer
Roald Dahl: age 74: writer
Larry Drake: age 67: actor
Larry Drake: age 67: actor
Phyllis George: age 70: sports newscaster
Frank Jeffries: age 79: actress
BONE CANCER:
Fatima Ali: age 29: chef
Pedro Armendariz: age 51: actor (was dying from the cancer when he committed suicide)
Peter Boyle: age 71: actor
Richard Farnsworth: age 80: actor (was dying from the cancer when he committed suicide)
Norman Fell: age 74: actor
Frank Jeffries: age 79: actress
BONE CANCER:
Fatima Ali: age 29: chef
Pedro Armendariz: age 51: actor (was dying from the cancer when he committed suicide)
Peter Boyle: age 71: actor
Richard Farnsworth: age 80: actor (was dying from the cancer when he committed suicide)
Norman Fell: age 74: actor
Charles Grodin: age 86: actor
Tim Holt: age 54: actor
Benita Hume: age 61: actress
Gordon Jackson: age 66: actor
Richard Kiley: age 76: actor
Reggie Nalder: age 84: actor
Thomas Mitchell: age 70: actor
Charlotte Rae: age 92: actress
Tim Holt: age 54: actor
Benita Hume: age 61: actress
Gordon Jackson: age 66: actor
Richard Kiley: age 76: actor
Reggie Nalder: age 84: actor
Thomas Mitchell: age 70: actor
Charlotte Rae: age 92: actress
Arthur Rimbaud: age 37: poet
Carl Sagan: age 62: writer
Carl Sagan: age 62: writer
Jack Swigert: age 51: astronaut
Vivian Vance: age 70: actress
BRAIN CANCER: (the worst kind, in my opinion)
John Bay: age 53: actor
Sam Bottoms: age 53: actor
Vivian Vance: age 70: actress
BRAIN CANCER: (the worst kind, in my opinion)
John Bay: age 53: actor
Sam Bottoms: age 53: actor
Elisabeth Brooks: age 46: actress
"The Unsinkable Molly" (Maggie) Brown: 65: philanthropist
Bert Convy: age 51: gameshow host
Wes Craven: age 76: director
Robert Donat: age 53: actor
Gunther Gebel-Williams: age 66: animal trainer
George Gershwin: age 38: composer
"The Unsinkable Molly" (Maggie) Brown: 65: philanthropist
Bert Convy: age 51: gameshow host
Wes Craven: age 76: director
Robert Donat: age 53: actor
Gunther Gebel-Williams: age 66: animal trainer
George Gershwin: age 38: composer
Laura Gilpin: age 56: poet
John Gunther Jr. Age 17: subject of "Death Be Not Proud"
Susan Hayward: age 57: actress
Susan Hayward: age 57: actress
Emmaline Henry: age 50: actress
Edward Herrmann: age 71: actor
James Ingram: age 66: singer
Richard Jordan: age 56: actor
Ted Kennedy: age 77: U.S. Senator
Edward Herrmann: age 71: actor
James Ingram: age 66: singer
Richard Jordan: age 56: actor
Ted Kennedy: age 77: U.S. Senator
Sophie Kinsella: age 55: writer
Clare Boothe Luce: age 84: playwright/U.S. Ambassador
Joseph Maher: age 64: actor
John McCain: age 81: politician
Heather Menzies: age 68: actress
Bob Mosher: age 57: screenwriter
Tommy Noonan: age 46: actor
Jerry Paris: age 60: actor
Pat Paterson: age 68: actress
Collin Wilcox Paxton: age 74: actress
Slim Pickens: age 64: actor
Chaim Potok: age 73: writer
Roger Rees: age 71: actor
Wilma Rudolph: age 54: olympian
John McCain: age 81: politician
Heather Menzies: age 68: actress
Bob Mosher: age 57: screenwriter
Tommy Noonan: age 46: actor
Jerry Paris: age 60: actor
Pat Paterson: age 68: actress
Collin Wilcox Paxton: age 74: actress
Slim Pickens: age 64: actor
Chaim Potok: age 73: writer
Roger Rees: age 71: actor
Wilma Rudolph: age 54: olympian
Irene Ryan: age 70: actress
Zachary Scott: age 51: actor
Mary Shelley: age 53: writer
Gene Siskel: age 53: movie critic
Mary Shelley: age 53: writer
Gene Siskel: age 53: movie critic
Alexis Smith: age 72: actress
Tammi Terrell: age 24: singer
Kim Walker: age 32: actress
BREAST CANCER:
Luana Anders: age 58: actress
Kim Walker: age 32: actress
BREAST CANCER:
Luana Anders: age 58: actress
V.C. Andrews: age 63: writer
Ingrid Bergman: age 67: actress
Bibi Besch: age 56: actress
Rachel Carson: age 56: writer
Juanin Clay: age 45: actress
Jackie Collins: age 77: writer
Norma Crane: age 44: actress
Bette Davis: age 81: actress
Ingrid Bergman: age 67: actress
Bibi Besch: age 56: actress
Rachel Carson: age 56: writer
Juanin Clay: age 45: actress
Jackie Collins: age 77: writer
Norma Crane: age 44: actress
Bette Davis: age 81: actress
Shannen Doherty: age 53: actress
Elizabeth Edwards: age 61: writer
Judy Holliday: age 43: actress
Elizabeth Edwards: age 61: writer
Judy Holliday: age 43: actress
Olivia Hussey: age 73: actress
Jill Ireland: age 54: actress
Jill Ireland: age 54: actress
Joi Lansing: age 43: actress
Linda McCartney: age 56: musician
Hattie McDaniel: age 60: actress
Linda McCartney: age 56: musician
Hattie McDaniel: age 60: actress
Olivia Newton-John: age 73: singer
Marni Nixon: age 86: singer
Kelly Preston: age 57: actress
Barbara Pym: age 66: writer
Lynn Redgrave: age 67: actor
Carol Shields: age 68: writer
Wendie Jo Sperber: age 47: actress
CERVICAL CANCER:
Doris Belack: age 85: actress
Marni Nixon: age 86: singer
Kelly Preston: age 57: actress
Barbara Pym: age 66: writer
Lynn Redgrave: age 67: actor
Carol Shields: age 68: writer
Wendie Jo Sperber: age 47: actress
Dusty Springfield: age 59: singer
Marcia Strassman: age 66: actress
Jaqueline Susann: age 56: writer
Mary Wickes: age 85: actress
Jaqueline Susann: age 56: writer
Mary Wickes: age 85: actress
CERVICAL CANCER:
Doris Belack: age 85: actress
Colleen Dewhurst: age 67: actress
Kay Medford: age 60: actress
Kay Medford: age 60: actress
Anais Nin: age 73: writer
Eva Peron: age 33: First Lady of Argentina
COLON/COLORECTAL CANCER:
Jack Albertson: age 74: actor
Eva Peron: age 33: First Lady of Argentina
COLON/COLORECTAL CANCER:
Jack Albertson: age 74: actor
Kirstie Alley: age 71: actress
Hal Ashby: age 59: director
Milton Berle: age 93: actor
Sorrell Booke: age 64: actor
Desi Arnaz: age 69: actor
Bea Arthur: age 86: actress
Tom Bosley: age 83: actor
Hal Ashby: age 59: director
Milton Berle: age 93: actor
Sorrell Booke: age 64: actor
Chadwick Boseman: age 43: actor
Frank Conroy: age 69: writer
Hume Cronyn: age 91: actor
Alice Ghostly: age 84: actress
Robin Gibb: age 62: musician
Frank Conroy: age 69: writer
Hume Cronyn: age 91: actor
Alice Ghostly: age 84: actress
Robin Gibb: age 62: musician
William Goldman: age 87: writer
Ruth Handler: age 85: inventor of Barbie
Betty Hutton: age 86: actress
Carolyn Jones: age 53: actress
Ruth Handler: age 85: inventor of Barbie
Betty Hutton: age 86: actress
Carolyn Jones: age 53: actress
Eartha Kitt: age 81: singer
Ted Knight: age 62: actor
Peggy Lipton: age 72: actress
Cleavon Litton: age 53: actor
H.P. Lovecraft: age 46: writer
Ida Lupino: age 77: actress/director
Mary Martin: age 76: actress
Elizabeth Montgomery: age 62: actress
Richard Mulligan: age 67: actor
Rafaela Ottiano: age 54: actress
Ted Knight: age 62: actor
Peggy Lipton: age 72: actress
Cleavon Litton: age 53: actor
H.P. Lovecraft: age 46: writer
Ida Lupino: age 77: actress/director
Mary Martin: age 76: actress
Elizabeth Montgomery: age 62: actress
Richard Mulligan: age 67: actor
Rafaela Ottiano: age 54: actress
Teddy Pendergrass: age 59: singer
Joel Siegel: age 63: movie critic
Meshach Taylor: age 67: actress
James Van Der Beek: age 48: actor
Gwen Welles: age 42: actress
Babe Zaharias: age 45: olympian
Babe Zaharias: age 45: olympian
Carlos Ruiz Zafon: age 55: writer
GALLBLADDER CANCER: (rare)
Iain Banks: age: 59: writer
GALLBLADDER CANCER: (rare)
Iain Banks: age: 59: writer
Christopher Jones: age 72: actor
Charles Laughton: age 63: actor
JOINT CANCER: (rare)
Robert Urich: age 55: actor
KIDNEY (renal) CANCER:
Ruby Keeler: age 83: actress
Charles Laughton: age 62: actor
Anthony Newley: age 67: composer
Lee Remick: age 55: actress
LEUKEMIA:
Charles Bukowski: age 73: writer
Jill Clayburgh: age 66: actress
Jeanne Coyne: age 50: actress
Rich Cronin: age 36: singer
Roald Dahl: age 74: writer
Nora Ephron: age 71: writer
Phoebe Gilman: age 62: writer
Cliff Gorman: age 65: actor
Kay Kendall: age 32: actress
Bruno Kirby: age 57: actor
Billie Letts: age 76: writer
Audra Lindley: age 79: actress
Charles Laughton: age 63: actor
JOINT CANCER: (rare)
Robert Urich: age 55: actor
KIDNEY (renal) CANCER:
Ruby Keeler: age 83: actress
Charles Laughton: age 62: actor
Anthony Newley: age 67: composer
Lee Remick: age 55: actress
LEUKEMIA:
Charles Bukowski: age 73: writer
Jill Clayburgh: age 66: actress
Jeanne Coyne: age 50: actress
Rich Cronin: age 36: singer
Roald Dahl: age 74: writer
Nora Ephron: age 71: writer
Phoebe Gilman: age 62: writer
Cliff Gorman: age 65: actor
Kay Kendall: age 32: actress
Bruno Kirby: age 57: actor
Billie Letts: age 76: writer
Audra Lindley: age 79: actress
Norm MacDonald: age 61: comedian
Donald Meek: age 68: actor
Charlie Murphy: age 57: actor
Bill Nunn: age 63: actor
Gregory Ratoff: age 63: actor
George Raft: age 79: actor
William Redfield: age 49: actor
Rainer Maria Rilke: age 51: writer
Paul Scofield: age 86: actor
E.C. Segar: age 43: writer
Susan Sontag: age 71: writer
Adam West: age 88: actor
LIVER CANCER:
Gregg Allman: age 69: musician
Hans Christian Anderson: age 70: writer
Hal Ashby: age 59: director
Donald Meek: age 68: actor
Charlie Murphy: age 57: actor
Bill Nunn: age 63: actor
Gregory Ratoff: age 63: actor
George Raft: age 79: actor
William Redfield: age 49: actor
Rainer Maria Rilke: age 51: writer
Paul Scofield: age 86: actor
E.C. Segar: age 43: writer
Susan Sontag: age 71: writer
Adam West: age 88: actor
LIVER CANCER:
Gregg Allman: age 69: musician
Hans Christian Anderson: age 70: writer
Hal Ashby: age 59: director
Lucille Benson: age 69: actress
David Bowie: age 69: musician
Raymond Burr: age 76: actor
John Coltrane: age 40: musician
Richard Cromwell: age 50: actor
Joe Frazier: age 67: boxer
Jackie Gleason: age 71: actor
Anthony Goldschmidt: age 71: movie poster designer
Gregory Hines: age 57: actor
Jim Hutton: age 45: actor
Ken Kesey: age 66: writer
David Bowie: age 69: musician
Raymond Burr: age 76: actor
John Coltrane: age 40: musician
Richard Cromwell: age 50: actor
Joe Frazier: age 67: boxer
Jackie Gleason: age 71: actor
Anthony Goldschmidt: age 71: movie poster designer
Gregory Hines: age 57: actor
Jim Hutton: age 45: actor
Ken Kesey: age 66: writer
Ronald Lacey: age 55: actor
Gertrude Lawrence: age 54: actress
Mickey Mantle: age 63: baseball player
Ozzie Nelson: age 69: actor
Ozzie Nelson: age 69: actor
Taylor Negron: age 57: actor
Lupe Ontiveros: age 69: actress
Edith Piaf: age 47: singer
Tracy Reed: age 69: actress
Joe Sawyer: age 75: actor
Lupe Ontiveros: age 69: actress
Edith Piaf: age 47: singer
Tracy Reed: age 69: actress
Joe Sawyer: age 75: actor
Mort Shuman: age 52: songwriter
August Wilson: age 60: play writer
Flip Wilson: age 64: actor
LUNG CANCER:
August Wilson: age 60: play writer
Flip Wilson: age 64: actor
LUNG CANCER:
Desi Arnaz: age 69: actor
Bea Arthur: age 86: actress
Tom Bosley: age 83: actor
Andre Braugher: age 61: actor
Yul Brynner: age 65: actor
Yul Brynner: age 65: actor
Harry Carey: age 69: actor
Reg E. Cathey: age 59: actor
John Cazale: age 42: actor
Rosemary Clooney: age 74: singer
Nat "King" Cole: age 45: singer
Christopher Connelly: age 47: actor
John Cazale: age 42: actor
Rosemary Clooney: age 74: singer
Nat "King" Cole: age 45: singer
Christopher Connelly: age 47: actor
Wilhelmina Cooper: age 40: model
Rupert Crosse: age 45: actor
Scatman Crothers: age 76: actor
Bob Denver: age 70: actor
Joe DiMaggio: age 84: baseball player
Walt Disney: age 65: animator
Jimmy Dorsey: age 53: musician
Peter Fonda: age 79: actor
Kathleen Freeman: age 82: actress
Victor French: age 54: actor
Wanda Gag: age 53: writer
Paul Gleason: age 67: actor (mesothelioma)
Betty Grable: age 56: actress
George Harrison: age 58: musician
Barbara Hollard: age 77: writer
Moe Howard: age 77: actor
Peter Jennings: age 67: news anchor
Andreas Katsulas: age 59: actor
Andy Kaufman: age 35: actor
Stubby Kaye: age 79: actor
Buster Keaton: age 70: actor
Alan King: age 76: actor
Ed Lauter: age 74: actor (mesothelioma)
Virna Lisi: age 78: actress
Barbara Luddy: age 71: actress
Simon MacCorkindale: age 58: actor
John Mahoney: age 77: actor
Nancy Marchand: age 71: actress
E.G. Marshall: age 84: actor
Dean Martin: age 78: actor
Audrey Meadows: age 73: actress
Gary Merrill: age 74: actor
Roddy McDowall: age 70: actor
Malcolm McLaren: age 64: musician (mesothelioma)
Steve McQueen: age 50: actor (mesothelioma)
Ray Milland: age 81: actor
Millard Mitchell: age 50: actor
Robert Mitchum: age 79: actor
Paul Newman: age 83: actor
Merlin Olsen: age 69: actor (mesothelioma)
George Peppard: age 65: actor
Brian Piccolo: age 26: NFL player
Vincent Price: age 82: actor
Nicholas Ray: age 67: actor
Scatman Crothers: age 76: actor
Bob Denver: age 70: actor
Joe DiMaggio: age 84: baseball player
Walt Disney: age 65: animator
Jimmy Dorsey: age 53: musician
Peter Fonda: age 79: actor
Kathleen Freeman: age 82: actress
Victor French: age 54: actor
Wanda Gag: age 53: writer
Paul Gleason: age 67: actor (mesothelioma)
Betty Grable: age 56: actress
George Harrison: age 58: musician
Barbara Hollard: age 77: writer
Moe Howard: age 77: actor
Peter Jennings: age 67: news anchor
Andreas Katsulas: age 59: actor
Andy Kaufman: age 35: actor
Stubby Kaye: age 79: actor
Buster Keaton: age 70: actor
Alan King: age 76: actor
Ed Lauter: age 74: actor (mesothelioma)
Virna Lisi: age 78: actress
Barbara Luddy: age 71: actress
Simon MacCorkindale: age 58: actor
John Mahoney: age 77: actor
Nancy Marchand: age 71: actress
E.G. Marshall: age 84: actor
Dean Martin: age 78: actor
Audrey Meadows: age 73: actress
Gary Merrill: age 74: actor
Roddy McDowall: age 70: actor
Malcolm McLaren: age 64: musician (mesothelioma)
Steve McQueen: age 50: actor (mesothelioma)
Ray Milland: age 81: actor
Millard Mitchell: age 50: actor
Robert Mitchum: age 79: actor
Paul Newman: age 83: actor
Merlin Olsen: age 69: actor (mesothelioma)
George Peppard: age 65: actor
Brian Piccolo: age 26: NFL player
Vincent Price: age 82: actor
Nicholas Ray: age 67: actor
Alejandro Rey: age 57: actor
Diana Rigg: age 82: actress
Jason Robards: age 78: actor
Gale Robbins: age 58: actress
Robert Ryan: age 63: actor
Michael Sarrazin: age 70: actor (mesothelioma)
Vincent Schiavelli: age 57: actor
Tim Scott: age 57: actor
Alastair Sim: age 75: actor
Jason Robards: age 78: actor
Gale Robbins: age 58: actress
Robert Ryan: age 63: actor
Michael Sarrazin: age 70: actor (mesothelioma)
Vincent Schiavelli: age 57: actor
Tim Scott: age 57: actor
Alastair Sim: age 75: actor
Robert Taylor: age 57: actor
Franchot Tone: age 63: actor
Georg von Trapp: age 67: singer
Jim Varney: age 50: actor
James Whitmore: age 87: actor
ORAL CANCER:
Burl Ives: age 85: actor
Gordon MacRae: age 64: actor
Bruce Paltrow: age 58: director
Aaron Spelling: age 83: producer
Jack Wild: age 52: actor
OVARIAN CANCER: (high mortality rate)
Marcheline Bertrand: age 56: actress
Sandy Dennis: age 54: actress
Jim Varney: age 50: actor
James Whitmore: age 87: actor
(Hodgkin's or non) LYMPHOMA:
Gene Autry: age 91: singer
Michael Crichton: age 66: writer
Alan Hale Jr: the 68: actor
Lynden David Hall: age 31: singer
Richard Harris: age 72: actor
Jacqueline Kennedy: age 64: former First Lady
Michael Crichton: age 66: writer
Alan Hale Jr: the 68: actor
Lynden David Hall: age 31: singer
Richard Harris: age 72: actor
Jacqueline Kennedy: age 64: former First Lady
Sidney Lumet: age 86: director
Louis Malle: age 63: director
Louis Malle: age 63: director
Paul Mantee: age 82: actor
Daniel Massey: age 64: actor
Howard Rollins: age 46: actor
Daniel Massey: age 64: actor
Howard Rollins: age 46: actor
Bob Ross: age 52: artist
Brandon Tartikoff: age 48: actor
Fred Thompson: age 73: actor
Fred Thompson: age 73: actor
Fred Travalena: age 66: actor
John M. Watson Sr. : age 69: actor
John M. Watson Sr. : age 69: actor
Andy Whitfield: age 39: actor
MYELOMA: (plasma)
Peter Boyle: age 71: actor
Jim Davis: age 72: actor
MYELOMA: (plasma)
Peter Boyle: age 71: actor
Jim Davis: age 72: actor
Emilio Delgado: 81: actor
Mickey Hargitay: age 80: actor
Mickey Hargitay: age 80: actor
Anna Held: age 46: singer
Ann Landers: age 83: writer
Abe Levitow: age 52: director
Jon Polito: age 65: actor
Roy Scheider: age: 75: actor
Robert James Waller: age 77: writer
Sam Walton: age 72: founder of Wal-mart
Stan Winston: age 62: special effects creator
Susannah York: age 72: actress
OCULAR CANCER:
Pedro Armendariz Jr.: age 71: actor
Roy Scheider: age: 75: actor
Robert James Waller: age 77: writer
Sam Walton: age 72: founder of Wal-mart
Stan Winston: age 62: special effects creator
Susannah York: age 72: actress
OCULAR CANCER:
Pedro Armendariz Jr.: age 71: actor
Rio Hackford: age 51: actor
Ned Eisenberg: age 65: actor
Joyce Grenfell: age 69: actress
Oliver Sacks: age 82: writer
Oliver Sacks: age 82: writer
ORAL CANCER:
Burl Ives: age 85: actor
Gordon MacRae: age 64: actor
Bruce Paltrow: age 58: director
Aaron Spelling: age 83: producer
Jack Wild: age 52: actor
OVARIAN CANCER: (high mortality rate)
Marcheline Bertrand: age 56: actress
Sandy Dennis: age 54: actress
Diana Dors: age 52: actress
Susan Fleetwood: 51: actress
Joan Hackett: age 49: actress
Madeline Kahn: age 57: actress
Dixie Lee: age 40: actress
Janet Margolin: age 50: actress
Anita Morris: age 50: actress
Laura Nyro: age 49: singer
Joan Hackett: age 49: actress
Madeline Kahn: age 57: actress
Dixie Lee: age 40: actress
Janet Margolin: age 50: actress
Anita Morris: age 50: actress
Laura Nyro: age 49: singer
Kate O'Hara: age 74: actress
Barbara Park: age 66: writer
Barbara Park: age 66: writer
Julie Parrish: age 62: actress
Alice Pearce: age 48: actress
Gilda Radner: age 42: actor
Dinah Shore: age 77: singer
Jessica Tandy: age 85: actor
Loretta Young: age 87: actress
PANCREATIC CANCER: (lowest survival rate of all cancers)
Hal Ashby: age 59: director
Alan Bates: age 69: actor
Jack Benny: age 80: t.v. host
Karen Black: age 74: actress (ampullary)
Alice Pearce: age 48: actress
Gilda Radner: age 42: actor
Dinah Shore: age 77: singer
Jessica Tandy: age 85: actor
Loretta Young: age 87: actress
PANCREATIC CANCER: (lowest survival rate of all cancers)
Hal Ashby: age 59: director
Alan Bates: age 69: actor
Jack Benny: age 80: t.v. host
Karen Black: age 74: actress (ampullary)
Joseph Bologna: age 82: actor
Symona Boniface: age 56: actress
Powers Boothe: age 68: actor
Powers Boothe: age 68: actor
Pamela Brown: age 58: actress
Oona Chaplin: age 66: actress
Oona Chaplin: age 66: actress
D'Angelo: age 51: singer
Umberto Eco: age 84: writer
Umberto Eco: age 84: writer
Vince Edwards: age 67: actor
Rene Enriquez: age 56: actor
Aretha Franklin: age 76: singer
Bonnie Franklin: age 69: actress
Peggy Ann Garner: age 52: actress
Rene Enriquez: age 56: actor
Aretha Franklin: age 76: singer
Bonnie Franklin: age 69: actress
Peggy Ann Garner: age 52: actress
Ben Gazzara: age 81: actor
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: age 87: Justice of the Supreme Court
Fred Gwynne: age 66: actor
Lorraine Hansberry: age 34: writer
Rex Harrison: age 82: actor
Jean Hersholt: age 69: actor
Bill Hicks: age 32: comedian
William Hootkins: age 57: actor
John Hurt: age 77: actor
Steve Jobs: age 56: computer inventor
Fernando Lamas: age 66: actor
Michael Landon: age 54: actor
Anna Magnani: age 65: actress
Kenneth Mars: age 75: actor
Margaret Mead: age 76: anthropologist
Luciano Pavarotti: age 71: opera singer
Brock Peters: age 78: actor
Fred Gwynne: age 66: actor
Lorraine Hansberry: age 34: writer
Rex Harrison: age 82: actor
Jean Hersholt: age 69: actor
Bill Hicks: age 32: comedian
William Hootkins: age 57: actor
John Hurt: age 77: actor
Steve Jobs: age 56: computer inventor
Fernando Lamas: age 66: actor
Michael Landon: age 54: actor
Anna Magnani: age 65: actress
Kenneth Mars: age 75: actor
Margaret Mead: age 76: anthropologist
Luciano Pavarotti: age 71: opera singer
Brock Peters: age 78: actor
Wolfgang Petersen: age 81: director
Pete Postlethwaite:age 64: actor
Harve Presnell: age 75: actor
Pete Postlethwaite:age 64: actor
Harve Presnell: age 75: actor
Juliet Prowse: age 59: actress
Donna Reed: age 64: actress
R. J. Reynolds: age 68: businessman
Sally Ride: age 61: astronaut
Alan Rickman: age 69: actor
Pernell Roberts: age 81: actor
Alex Rocco: age 79: actor
Simone Signoret: age 64: actress
Donna Reed: age 64: actress
R. J. Reynolds: age 68: businessman
Sally Ride: age 61: astronaut
Alan Rickman: age 69: actor
Pernell Roberts: age 81: actor
Alex Rocco: age 79: actor
Simone Signoret: age 64: actress
Jerry Springer: age 79: TV host
Patrick Swayze: age 57: actor
Patrick Swayze: age 57: actor
Alex Trebek: age 80: TV host
Keenan Wynn: age 70: actor
PROSTATE CANCER:
Bud Abbott: age 78: actor
Don Ameche: age 85: actor
Bill Bixby: age 59: actor
Gary Cooper: age 60: actor
Harold Gould: age 86: actor
PROSTATE CANCER:
Bud Abbott: age 78: actor
Don Ameche: age 85: actor
Bill Bixby: age 59: actor
Gary Cooper: age 60: actor
Harold Gould: age 86: actor
Sterling Hayden: age 70: actor
Dennis Hopper: age 74: actor
Geoffrey Hughes: age 68: actor
Langston Hughes: age 65: writer
Dennis Hopper: age 74: actor
Geoffrey Hughes: age 68: actor
Langston Hughes: age 65: writer
William Hurt: age 71: actor
Jack Klugman: age 90: actor
Jack Klugman: age 90: actor
Harold Lloyd: age 77: director
Fredric March: age 77: actor
Jerry Orbach: age 69: actor
Fredric March: age 77: actor
Jerry Orbach: age 69: actor
Ryne Sandberg: age 65: baseball player
Dick Sargent: age 63: actor
William Saroyan: age 72: writer
Frank Zappa: age 52: musician
SKIN CANCER: (melanoma)
Stephen J. Cannell: age 69: writer
Dick Sargent: age 63: actor
William Saroyan: age 72: writer
Frank Zappa: age 52: musician
SKIN CANCER: (melanoma)
Stephen J. Cannell: age 69: writer
Sheila Gish: age: 62: actress
Bob Marley: age 36: musician
Frank McCourt: age 78: writer
Burgess Meredith: age 89: actor
Theresa Merritt: age 73: actress
Roger Moore: age 89: actor
James Rebhorn: age 65: actor
SPINAL CANCER:
Graham Chapman: age 48: actor
Dan Haggerty: age 73: actor
John Houseman: age 86: actor
Bob Marley: age 36: musician
Frank McCourt: age 78: writer
Burgess Meredith: age 89: actor
Theresa Merritt: age 73: actress
Roger Moore: age 89: actor
James Rebhorn: age 65: actor
SPINAL CANCER:
Graham Chapman: age 48: actor
Dan Haggerty: age 73: actor
John Houseman: age 86: actor
Grace Stafford: age 88: actress
James Baldwin: age 63: writer
Rafael Campos: age 49: actor
Jack Carson: age 52: actor
Marion Davies: age 64: actress
STOMACH CANCER:
James Baldwin: age 63: writer
Rafael Campos: age 49: actor
Jack Carson: age 52: actor
Marion Davies: age 64: actress
Ann Dvorak: age 68: actress
Edna Ferber: age 82: writer
John Ford: age 79: director
Jack Gilford: age 81: actor
Gloria Grahame: age 57: actress
Laurence Harvey: age 45: actor
DeForest Kelley: age 79: actor
Allen Ludden: age 63: gameshow host
John Ford: age 79: director
Jack Gilford: age 81: actor
Gloria Grahame: age 57: actress
Laurence Harvey: age 45: actor
DeForest Kelley: age 79: actor
Allen Ludden: age 63: gameshow host
Peter O'Toole: age 81: actor
Clifford Odets: age 57: screenwriter
Lilli Palmer: age 71: actor
Morgan Paul: age 67: actor
Sydney Pollack: age 73: director
Fred "Mr. Rogers": age 74: children's t.v. show host
Nipsey Russell: age 87: comedian
Gertrude Stein: age 72: writer
Elaine Stritch: age 89: actress
Lilyan Tashman: age 37: actress
Michelle Thomas: age 30: actress
Lilli Palmer: age 71: actor
Morgan Paul: age 67: actor
Sydney Pollack: age 73: director
Fred "Mr. Rogers": age 74: children's t.v. show host
Nipsey Russell: age 87: comedian
Gertrude Stein: age 72: writer
Elaine Stritch: age 89: actress
Lilyan Tashman: age 37: actress
Michelle Thomas: age 30: actress
Tony Todd: age: 69: actor
Tom Tryon: age 65: actor
John Wayne: age 72: actor
THROAT (esophageal) CANCER:
James Baldwin: age 63: writer
Humphrey Bogart: age 57: actor
Richard Boone: age 63: actor
Lon Chaney: age 47: actor
Sammy Davis Jr.: age 64: actor
Richard Dawson: age 79: gameshow host
Tom Tryon: age 65: actor
John Wayne: age 72: actor
THROAT (esophageal) CANCER:
James Baldwin: age 63: writer
Humphrey Bogart: age 57: actor
Richard Boone: age 63: actor
Lon Chaney: age 47: actor
Sammy Davis Jr.: age 64: actor
Richard Dawson: age 79: gameshow host
Nelson DeMille: age 81: author
Bob Denver: age 70: actor
Andrew Duggan: age 64: actor
Frances Farmer: age 56: actress
Ulysses S. Grant: age 63: 18th President
Jean Hagen: age 54: actress
Kevin Hagen: age 77: actor
Larry Hagman: age 81: actor
Robert Kardashian : age 59: O. J. case lawyer
Dorothea Lange: age 70: photographer
David Lean: age 82: director
Bob Denver: age 70: actor
Andrew Duggan: age 64: actor
Frances Farmer: age 56: actress
Ulysses S. Grant: age 63: 18th President
Jean Hagen: age 54: actress
Kevin Hagen: age 77: actor
Larry Hagman: age 81: actor
Robert Kardashian : age 59: O. J. case lawyer
Dorothea Lange: age 70: photographer
David Lean: age 82: director
Edna Purviance: age 62: actress
Anthony Quinn : age 86: actor
Anne Ramsey: age 58: actress
Dr. Seuss: age 87: writer
Ann Sheridan: age: 51: actress
Sylvia Sidney: age 88: actress
Jack Soo: age 61: actor
Ed Sullivan: age 73: T.V. host
Lana Turner: age 74: actress
Anthony Quinn : age 86: actor
Anne Ramsey: age 58: actress
Dr. Seuss: age 87: writer
Ann Sheridan: age: 51: actress
Sylvia Sidney: age 88: actress
Jack Soo: age 61: actor
Ed Sullivan: age 73: T.V. host
Lana Turner: age 74: actress
Martha Vickers: age 46: actress
Deborah Walley: age 59: actress
Ed Wynn: age 79: actor
Deborah Walley: age 59: actress
Ed Wynn: age 79: actor
THYMUS CANCER: (rare)
Alan Hale Jr. : age 68: actor
THYROID CANCER:
Red Callender: age 76: musician
Esther Earl: age 16: activist
Roger Ebert: age 70: movie critic
Susan Gordon: age 62: actress
William Rehnquist: age 81: American Supreme Court Chief Justice
Adam Somner: age 57: film producer
UTERINE CANCER:
Loni Anderson: age 79: actress
UTERINE CANCER:
Loni Anderson: age 79: actress
Anne Bancroft: age 73: actress
Dixie Carter: age 70: actress (endometrial)
Evelyn Keyes: age 91: actress
Shari Lewis: age 65: actress
Betty MacDonald: age 49: writer
Agnes Moorehead: age 73: actress
Kim Stanley: age 76: actress
UNANNOUNCED TYPE OF CANCER:
Suzan Ball: age 21: actress
Diana Bellamy: age 57: actress
Alice Brady: age 43: actress
Leif Erickson: age 73: actor
John Fiedler: age 80: voice of "Piglet"
Dixie Carter: age 70: actress (endometrial)
Evelyn Keyes: age 91: actress
Shari Lewis: age 65: actress
Betty MacDonald: age 49: writer
Agnes Moorehead: age 73: actress
Kim Stanley: age 76: actress
UNANNOUNCED TYPE OF CANCER:
Suzan Ball: age 21: actress
Diana Bellamy: age 57: actress
Alice Brady: age 43: actress
Leif Erickson: age 73: actor
John Fiedler: age 80: voice of "Piglet"
Farrah Forke: age 54: actress
Larry Holden: age 49: actor
Jan Hooks: age 57: actress
Douglas Kennedy: age 57: actor
Richard Libertini: age 82: actor
Nick Massi:age 73: musician
Larry Holden: age 49: actor
Jan Hooks: age 57: actress
Douglas Kennedy: age 57: actor
Richard Libertini: age 82: actor
Nick Massi:age 73: musician
Elizabeth McBride: age 42: costume designer
Lois Moran: age 81: actress
Jesse Pearson: age 49: actor
Bob Peck : age 53: actor
Julia Phillips: age 57: producer
Jesse Pearson: age 49: actor
Bob Peck : age 53: actor
Julia Phillips: age 57: producer
Markie Post: age 70: actress
Ainslie Pryor: age 37: actor
Emmanuelle Riva: age 89: actress
Emmanuelle Riva: age 89: actress
Paul Reubens: age 70: actor
Maria Schneider: age 58: actress
Carol Ann Susi: age 62: actress
Maria Schneider: age 58: actress
Carol Ann Susi: age 62: actress
Helen Walker: age 47: actress
Celebrities Who Died In Their 60s
As our life spans extend I decided to add a blog of celebrity deaths in their 60s. Dying in your sixties is still pretty tragic.
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Christopher Allport: 1947: actor: avalanche
John Barrymore Sr. 1942: actor: cirrhosis of liver
Amanda Blake: 1929-1989: actress: AIDS
Clara Bow: 1905-1965: actress: heart attack
Calvin Coolidge: 1872-1933: 30th President: blood clot in the heart
Gary Cooper: 1901-1961: actor: prostate cancer
Jim Carroll: 1949-2009: writer: heart attack
Carrie Fisher: 1956-2016: actress/writer: heart attack
Peter Finch: 1916-1977: actor: heart attack
Bob Fosse: 1927-1987: director/choreographer: heart attack
Sergio Leone: 1929-1989: director: heart attack
Larry Linville: 1939-2000: actor: pneumonia
Kevin Meaney: 1956-2016: comedian: heart failure ?
George S. Patton: 1885-1945: U.S. general: car crash
Theodore Roosevelt: 1858-1919: 26th President: pulmonary embolism
Vera-Ellen: 1921-1981: actress: cancer
August Wilson: 1945-2005: play writer: lung cancer
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Ted Bisell: 1935-1996: actor: aortic aneurysm
V.C. Andrews: 1923-1986: writer: breast cancer
Royce D. Applegate: 1939-2003: actor: house fire
James Baldwin: 1924-1987: writer: throat cancer
Wilt Chamberlain: 1936-1999: basketball player: cardiac arrest
Ulysses S. Grant: 1822-1885: 18th President: throat cancer
Audrey Hepburn: 1929-1993: actress: appendiceal cancer
William Holden: 1918-1981: actor: injuries from a fall
Charles Laughton: 1899-1962: actor: gall bladder cancer
Allen Ludden: 1917-1981: gameshow host: stomach cancer
Lee Marvin: 1924-1987: actor: heart attack
Bill Nunn: 1953-2016: actor: leukemia
Tony Richardson: 1928-1991: director: AIDS
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1882-1945: 32nd President: stroke
Robert Ryan: 1909-1973: actor: lung cancer
David O. Selznick: 1902-1965: director: heart attack
Robin Williams: 1951-2014: actor: hanging
Dick York: 1928-1992: actor: emphysema
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Lee Van Cleef: 1925-1989: actor: heart attack
Lee J. Cobb: 1911-1976: actor: heart attack
Marion Davies: 1897-1961: actress: stomach cancer
Sammy Davis Jr.: 1925-1990: actor: lung cancer
Andrew Duggan: 1923-1998: actor: throat cancer
Moses Gunn: 1929-1993: actor: asthma attack
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson: 1887-1951: baseball player: heart attack
Amanda Blake: 1929-1989: actress: AIDS
Clara Bow: 1905-1965: actress: heart attack
Calvin Coolidge: 1872-1933: 30th President: blood clot in the heart
Gary Cooper: 1901-1961: actor: prostate cancer
Jim Carroll: 1949-2009: writer: heart attack
Carrie Fisher: 1956-2016: actress/writer: heart attack
Peter Finch: 1916-1977: actor: heart attack
Bob Fosse: 1927-1987: director/choreographer: heart attack
Sergio Leone: 1929-1989: director: heart attack
Larry Linville: 1939-2000: actor: pneumonia
Kevin Meaney: 1956-2016: comedian: heart failure ?
George S. Patton: 1885-1945: U.S. general: car crash
Theodore Roosevelt: 1858-1919: 26th President: pulmonary embolism
Vera-Ellen: 1921-1981: actress: cancer
August Wilson: 1945-2005: play writer: lung cancer
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Ted Bisell: 1935-1996: actor: aortic aneurysm
Maury Chaykin: 1949-2010: actor: kidney failure
Nicholas Colasanto: 1924-1985: actor: heart failure
Ernest Hemingway: 1899-1961: writer: suicide
James Horner: 1953-2015: composer: plane crash
Nicholas Colasanto: 1924-1985: actor: heart failure
Ernest Hemingway: 1899-1961: writer: suicide
James Horner: 1953-2015: composer: plane crash
Jeanette MacDonald: 1903-1965: actress: heart failure
Norm Macdonald: 1959-2021: comedian: leukemia
John McGiver: 1913-1975: actor: heart attack
Bill Paxton: 1955-2017: actor: stroke after heart surgery
Oliver Reed: 1938-1999: actor: heart attack
Sally Ride: 1951-2012: astronaut: pancreatic cancer
Theresa Saldana: 1954-2016: actress: pneumonia
Jack Soo: 1917-1979: actor: throat cancer
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Wayne Allwine: 1947-2009: voice of Mickey Mouse: diabetes
John McGiver: 1913-1975: actor: heart attack
Bill Paxton: 1955-2017: actor: stroke after heart surgery
Oliver Reed: 1938-1999: actor: heart attack
Sally Ride: 1951-2012: astronaut: pancreatic cancer
Theresa Saldana: 1954-2016: actress: pneumonia
Jack Soo: 1917-1979: actor: throat cancer
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Wayne Allwine: 1947-2009: voice of Mickey Mouse: diabetes
L. Frank Baum: 1856-1919: writer: stroke
Anne Baxter: 1923-1985: actress: stroke
Sonny Bono: 1935-1998: actor: skiing accident
Sandra Dee: 1942-2005: actress: kidney failure
Albert Dekker: 1905-1968: actor: strangulation
Rick Ducommun: 1952-2015: actor: diabetes complications
Herb Edelman: 1933-1996: actor: emphysema
Farrah Fawcett: 1947-2009: actress: anal cancer
Robin Gibb: 1949-2012: musician: colon cancer
Phoebe Gilman: 1940-2002: author: leukemia
Spalding Gray: 1941-2004: actor: suicide
Glenne Headly: 1955-2017: actress: pulmonary embolism
Ted Knight: 1923-1986: actor: colon cancer
Jason Miller: 1939-2001: actor: heart attack
Elizabeth Montgomery: 1933-1995: actress: colorectal cancer
Zero Mostel: 1915-1977: actor: heart attack
Anne Baxter: 1923-1985: actress: stroke
Sonny Bono: 1935-1998: actor: skiing accident
Sandra Dee: 1942-2005: actress: kidney failure
Albert Dekker: 1905-1968: actor: strangulation
Rick Ducommun: 1952-2015: actor: diabetes complications
Herb Edelman: 1933-1996: actor: emphysema
Farrah Fawcett: 1947-2009: actress: anal cancer
Robin Gibb: 1949-2012: musician: colon cancer
Phoebe Gilman: 1940-2002: author: leukemia
Spalding Gray: 1941-2004: actor: suicide
Glenne Headly: 1955-2017: actress: pulmonary embolism
Ted Knight: 1923-1986: actor: colon cancer
Jason Miller: 1939-2001: actor: heart attack
Elizabeth Montgomery: 1933-1995: actress: colorectal cancer
Zero Mostel: 1915-1977: actor: heart attack
Edna Purviance: 1895-1958: actress: throat cancer
Carl Sagan: 1934-1996: writer: bone cancer
Frank G. Wells: 1932-1994: President of "The Walt Disney Company": helicopter crash
Sam Winston: 1946-2008: special effect creator: multiple myeloma
Carl Sagan: 1934-1996: writer: bone cancer
Frank G. Wells: 1932-1994: President of "The Walt Disney Company": helicopter crash
Sam Winston: 1946-2008: special effect creator: multiple myeloma
Emile Zola: 1840-1902: author: carbon monoxide poisoning
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V.C. Andrews: 1923-1986: writer: breast cancer
Royce D. Applegate: 1939-2003: actor: house fire
James Baldwin: 1924-1987: writer: throat cancer
Wilt Chamberlain: 1936-1999: basketball player: cardiac arrest
Ulysses S. Grant: 1822-1885: 18th President: throat cancer
Audrey Hepburn: 1929-1993: actress: appendiceal cancer
William Holden: 1918-1981: actor: injuries from a fall
Charles Laughton: 1899-1962: actor: gall bladder cancer
Allen Ludden: 1917-1981: gameshow host: stomach cancer
Lee Marvin: 1924-1987: actor: heart attack
Bill Nunn: 1953-2016: actor: leukemia
Tony Richardson: 1928-1991: director: AIDS
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1882-1945: 32nd President: stroke
Robert Ryan: 1909-1973: actor: lung cancer
David O. Selznick: 1902-1965: director: heart attack
Robin Williams: 1951-2014: actor: hanging
Dick York: 1928-1992: actor: emphysema
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Lee Van Cleef: 1925-1989: actor: heart attack
Lee J. Cobb: 1911-1976: actor: heart attack
Marion Davies: 1897-1961: actress: stomach cancer
Sammy Davis Jr.: 1925-1990: actor: lung cancer
Andrew Duggan: 1923-1998: actor: throat cancer
Moses Gunn: 1929-1993: actor: asthma attack
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson: 1887-1951: baseball player: heart attack
Waylon Jennings: 1937-2002: country singer: diabetes
Lyndon B. Johnson: 1908-1973: 36th President: heart attack
Al Jolson: 1886-1950: actor: heart attack
Jacqueline Kennedy: 1929-1994: former First Lady: non-hodgkin's lymphoma
Gordon MacRae: 1921-1986: actor: oral cancer
Lyndon B. Johnson: 1908-1973: 36th President: heart attack
Al Jolson: 1886-1950: actor: heart attack
Jacqueline Kennedy: 1929-1994: former First Lady: non-hodgkin's lymphoma
Gordon MacRae: 1921-1986: actor: oral cancer
Joseph Maher: 1933-1998: actor: brain tumor
Franklin Pierce: 1804-1869: 14th President: cirrhosis of the liver
Pete Postlethwaite: 1946-2011: actor: pancreatic cancer
Donna Reed: 1921-1986: actress: pancreatic cancer
Dick Sargent: 1930-1994: actor: prostate cancer
Tiny Tim: 1932-1996: singer: cardiac arrest
Gig Young: 1913-1978: actor: suicide
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Robert Aldrich: 1918-1983: director: kidney failure
Harry Anderson: 1952-2018: actor: stroke
Yul Brynner: 1920-1985: actor: lung cancer
Lewis Carroll: 1832-1898: writer: influenza
Natalie Cole: 1950-2015: singer: kidney and liver failure (Hep C)
Franklin Pierce: 1804-1869: 14th President: cirrhosis of the liver
Pete Postlethwaite: 1946-2011: actor: pancreatic cancer
Donna Reed: 1921-1986: actress: pancreatic cancer
Dick Sargent: 1930-1994: actor: prostate cancer
Tiny Tim: 1932-1996: singer: cardiac arrest
Gig Young: 1913-1978: actor: suicide
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Robert Aldrich: 1918-1983: director: kidney failure
Harry Anderson: 1952-2018: actor: stroke
Yul Brynner: 1920-1985: actor: lung cancer
Lewis Carroll: 1832-1898: writer: influenza
Natalie Cole: 1950-2015: singer: kidney and liver failure (Hep C)
Don Davis: 1942-2008: actor: heart attack
Walt Disney: 1901-1966: animator: lung cancer
Walt Disney: 1901-1966: animator: lung cancer
Nelson Eddy: 1901-1967: actor: stroke
Cliff Gorman: 1936-2002: actor: leukemia
Richard Griffiths: 1947-2013: actor: heart disease
Oliver Hardy: 1892-1957: actor: stroke from a blood clot
Isaac Hayes: 1942-2008: musician: stroke
Langston Hughes: 1902-1967: writer: prostate cancer
Stanley Kamel: 1943-2008: actor: heart attack
Cliff Gorman: 1936-2002: actor: leukemia
Richard Griffiths: 1947-2013: actor: heart disease
Oliver Hardy: 1892-1957: actor: stroke from a blood clot
Isaac Hayes: 1942-2008: musician: stroke
Langston Hughes: 1902-1967: writer: prostate cancer
Stanley Kamel: 1943-2008: actor: heart attack
Val Kilmer: 1959-2025: actor: pneumonia
Shari Lewis: 1933-1998: puppeteer: uterine cancer
Gene Lockhart: 1891-1957: actor: coronary thrombosis
George Peppard: 1928-1994: actor: pneumonia
Shari Lewis: 1933-1998: puppeteer: uterine cancer
Gene Lockhart: 1891-1957: actor: coronary thrombosis
George Peppard: 1928-1994: actor: pneumonia
Jon Polito: age 1950-2016: actor: myeloma
Richard Pryor: 1940-2005: comedian: heart failure
James Rebhorn: 1948-2014: actor: skin cancer
Tommy Ramone: 1949-2014: musician: bile duct cancer
James Rebhorn: 1948-2014: actor: skin cancer
Tommy Ramone: 1949-2014: musician: bile duct cancer
Bob Saget: 1956-2022: comedian: brain bleed from a fall
Ryne Sandberg: 1959-2025: baseball player: prostate cancer
George Sanders: 1906-1972: actor: suicide
Zachary Taylor: 1784-1850: 12th President: cholera?
George Sanders: 1906-1972: actor: suicide
Zachary Taylor: 1784-1850: 12th President: cholera?
Eddie Van Halen: 1955-2020: musician: throat cancer
Florenz Ziegfeld: 1867-1932: stage producer: lung infection
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Alan Bridge: 1891-1957: actor: heart disease and emphysema
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Alan Bridge: 1891-1957: actor: heart disease and emphysema
Cesar Chavez: 1927-1993: labor activist: died in sleep
Tom Clancy: 1947-2013: writer: heart disease
Jill Clayburgh: 1944-2010: actress: leukemia
Joseph Conrad: 1857-1924: writer: heart attack
Marie Curie: 1867-1934: scientist: anemia
Michael Crichton: 1942-2008: writer: lymphoma
W.C. Fields: 1880-1946: actor: stomach hemorrhage
Juan Gabriel: 1950-2016: singer: heart attack
Indira Gandhi: 1917-1984: 4th Prime Minister of India: murdered
Gordon Jackson: 1923-1990: actor: bone cancer
Andrew Johnson: 1808-1875: 17th President: stroke
Davy Jones: 1945-2012: musician: heart attack
Ken Kesey: 1935-2001: writer: liver cancer
Mabel King: 1932-1999: actress: diabetes
Fernando Lamas: 1916-1982: actor: pancreatic cancer
Joe Lewis: 1914-1981: boxer: cardiac arrest
Barton MacLane: 1902-1969: actor: pneumonia
Barbara Park: 1947-2013: writer: ovarian cancer
Tom Petty: 1950-2017: musician: heart attack
Thelma Ritter: 1902-1969: actress: heart attack
Gary Shandling: 1949-2016: comedian: heart attack
Bubba Smith: 1945-2011: actor: overdose of phentermine
John Steinbeck: 1902-1968: writer: heart disease
Joe Viterelli: 1937-2004: actor: stomach hemorrhage
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Ingrid Bergman: 1915-1982: actress: breast cancer
Dennis Burkley: 1945-2013: actor: heart attack
Lon Chaney Jr.: 1906-1973: actor: liver failure
Bob Clark: 1939-2007: director: car accident
Colleen Dewhurst: 1924-1991: actress: cervical cancer
Joe Frazier: 1944-2011: boxer: liver cancer
Tom Clancy: 1947-2013: writer: heart disease
Jill Clayburgh: 1944-2010: actress: leukemia
Joseph Conrad: 1857-1924: writer: heart attack
Marie Curie: 1867-1934: scientist: anemia
Michael Crichton: 1942-2008: writer: lymphoma
W.C. Fields: 1880-1946: actor: stomach hemorrhage
Juan Gabriel: 1950-2016: singer: heart attack
Indira Gandhi: 1917-1984: 4th Prime Minister of India: murdered
Gordon Jackson: 1923-1990: actor: bone cancer
Andrew Johnson: 1808-1875: 17th President: stroke
Davy Jones: 1945-2012: musician: heart attack
Ken Kesey: 1935-2001: writer: liver cancer
Mabel King: 1932-1999: actress: diabetes
Fernando Lamas: 1916-1982: actor: pancreatic cancer
Joe Lewis: 1914-1981: boxer: cardiac arrest
Barton MacLane: 1902-1969: actor: pneumonia
Barbara Park: 1947-2013: writer: ovarian cancer
Tom Petty: 1950-2017: musician: heart attack
Thelma Ritter: 1902-1969: actress: heart attack
Gary Shandling: 1949-2016: comedian: heart attack
Bubba Smith: 1945-2011: actor: overdose of phentermine
John Steinbeck: 1902-1968: writer: heart disease
Joe Viterelli: 1937-2004: actor: stomach hemorrhage
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Ingrid Bergman: 1915-1982: actress: breast cancer
Dennis Burkley: 1945-2013: actor: heart attack
Lon Chaney Jr.: 1906-1973: actor: liver failure
Bob Clark: 1939-2007: director: car accident
Colleen Dewhurst: 1924-1991: actress: cervical cancer
Joe Frazier: 1944-2011: boxer: liver cancer
Lucio Fulci: 1927-1996: Italian director: diabetes-related death
Ava Gardner: 1922-1990: actress: pneumonia
Paul Gleason: 1939-2006: actor: mesothelioma
Ava Gardner: 1922-1990: actress: pneumonia
Paul Gleason: 1939-2006: actor: mesothelioma
Gilbert Gottfried: 1955-2022: comedian: myotonic dystrophy
Hugh Griffith: 1912-1980: actor: heart attack
Benjamin Harrison: 1833-1901: 23rd President: pneumonia
Peter Jennings: 1938-2005: news anchor: lung cancer
Hugh Griffith: 1912-1980: actor: heart attack
Benjamin Harrison: 1833-1901: 23rd President: pneumonia
Peter Jennings: 1938-2005: news anchor: lung cancer
Leslie Jordan: 1955-2022: comedian and actor: car accident
Ezra Jack Keats: 1916-1983: author: heart attack
Ray Liotta: 1954-2022: actor: heart failure
Michael Madsen: 1957-2025: actor: cardiac arrest
Richard Mulligan: 1932-2000: actor: colon cancer
Lynn Redgrave: 1943-2010: actress: breast cancer
Spencer Tracy: 1900-1967: actor: heart attack
George Washington: 1732-1799: 1st President: bronchitis?
Woodrow Wilson: 1856-1924: 28th President: stroke
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James Avery: 1945-2013: actor: heart failure
Josephine Baker: 1906-1975: actress: stroke
Redd Foxx: 1922-1991: actor: heart attack
William Henry Harrison: 1773-1841: 9th President: pneumonia
Rita Hayworth: 1918-1987: actress: Alzheimer's disease
Benny Hill: 1924-1992: actor: heart attack
Donald Meek: 1878-1946: actor: leukemia
Tony Scott: 1944-2012: director: suicide
Carol Shields: 1935-2003: writer: breast cancer
Shel Silverstein: 1930-1999: writer: heart attack
McLean Stevenson: 1927-1996: actor: heart attack
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Gregg Allman: 1947-2017: musician: liver cancer
Louis Armstrong: 1901-1971: musician: heart attack
Desi Arnaz: 1917-1986: actor: lung cancer
Ed Begley: 1901-1970: actor: heart attack
Erma Bombeck: 1927-1996: comedian: kidney failure
David Bowie: 1947-2016: musician: liver cancer
Jackie Coogan: 1914-1984: actor: heat attack
Frank Conroy: 1936-2005: writer: colon cancer
Dennis Farina: 1944-2013: actor: pulmonary embolism
Jean Hersholt: 1886-1956: actor: pancreatic cancer
Pablo Neruda: 1904-1973: writer: heart failure
Edmond O'Brien: 1915-1985: actor: Alzheimer's disease
Merlin Olsen: 1940-2010: actor: lung cancer (mesothelioma)
Jerry Orbach: 1935-2004: actor: prostate cancer
Harold Ramis: 1944-2014: director: arteriosclerosis
Alan Reed: 1907-1977: actor: heart attack
Tracy Reed: 1942-2012: actress: liver cancer
Alan Rickman: 1946-2016: actor: pancreatic cancer
Alan Thick: 1947-2016: actor: heart attack
Jay Thomas: 1948-2017: actor: cancer
Richard Mulligan: 1932-2000: actor: colon cancer
Lynn Redgrave: 1943-2010: actress: breast cancer
Spencer Tracy: 1900-1967: actor: heart attack
George Washington: 1732-1799: 1st President: bronchitis?
Woodrow Wilson: 1856-1924: 28th President: stroke
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James Avery: 1945-2013: actor: heart failure
Josephine Baker: 1906-1975: actress: stroke
Redd Foxx: 1922-1991: actor: heart attack
William Henry Harrison: 1773-1841: 9th President: pneumonia
Rita Hayworth: 1918-1987: actress: Alzheimer's disease
Benny Hill: 1924-1992: actor: heart attack
Donald Meek: 1878-1946: actor: leukemia
Tony Scott: 1944-2012: director: suicide
Carol Shields: 1935-2003: writer: breast cancer
Shel Silverstein: 1930-1999: writer: heart attack
McLean Stevenson: 1927-1996: actor: heart attack
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Gregg Allman: 1947-2017: musician: liver cancer
Louis Armstrong: 1901-1971: musician: heart attack
Desi Arnaz: 1917-1986: actor: lung cancer
Ed Begley: 1901-1970: actor: heart attack
Erma Bombeck: 1927-1996: comedian: kidney failure
David Bowie: 1947-2016: musician: liver cancer
Jackie Coogan: 1914-1984: actor: heat attack
Frank Conroy: 1936-2005: writer: colon cancer
Dennis Farina: 1944-2013: actor: pulmonary embolism
Jean Hersholt: 1886-1956: actor: pancreatic cancer
Pablo Neruda: 1904-1973: writer: heart failure
Edmond O'Brien: 1915-1985: actor: Alzheimer's disease
Merlin Olsen: 1940-2010: actor: lung cancer (mesothelioma)
Jerry Orbach: 1935-2004: actor: prostate cancer
Harold Ramis: 1944-2014: director: arteriosclerosis
Alan Reed: 1907-1977: actor: heart attack
Tracy Reed: 1942-2012: actress: liver cancer
Alan Rickman: 1946-2016: actor: pancreatic cancer
Alan Thick: 1947-2016: actor: heart attack
Jay Thomas: 1948-2017: actor: cancer
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