In Memoriam: Writers Who Left Us In 2024

As we celebrate the end of another year, let's take time to honor and appreciate the many writers we lost over the course of the year, and the impact their work had on our lives. Below we've listed the names of passings we noticed in the news this year, and we link to searches in our catalog so you can explore their books in our collection, but the list is by no means meant to be comprehensive.

These writers inspired us, entertained us and kept us company on the page. We will miss them and honor them as their work lives on through us.

Joan Acocella

Robert L. Allen

Dorothy Allison

Tina McElroy Ansa

Paul Auster

John Barth

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Laurent de Brunhoff

Patrick Butler

Caleb Carr

Maryse Condé

Robert Coover

Frederick Crews

Frans de Waal

Nikki Giovanni

Don De Grazia

Daniel C. Dennett

Kinky Friedman

Nathan Hare

Gary Indiana

Fredric Jameson

Ismail Kadare

Daniel Kahneman

Elias Khoury

Lewis Lapham

David Garrard Lowe

Barry Malzberg

Petra Mathers

Malachy McCourt

N. Scott Momaday

Alice Munro

Jay Robert Nash

Elizabeth Nunez

Edna O’Brien

Francine Pascal

Marjorie Perloff

Ed Piskor

Christopher Priest

James Proimos

Faith Ringgold

Harriette Gillem Robinet

Lore Segal

Antonio Skármeta

Akira Toriyama

Helen Vendler

Vernor Vinge