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- January 21 – Will Lang, Jr., American journalist (born 1914)[53]
- March 23 – Edwin O'Connor, American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator (born 1918)[54]
- April 4 - Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi, Iranian-Iraqi Ja'fari jurist, religious teacher and poet (born 1889)[55]
- April 16 – Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer and playwright (born 1885)[56]
- April 27 – Vasily Azhayev, Soviet writer (born 1915)[57]
- April 29 – Anthony Boucher, American author, critic, and editor (born 1911)[58]
- May 1 – Sir Harold Nicolson, British biographer (born 1886)[59]
- May 30 – Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor, Romanian anthropologist, ethnographer and children's writer (born 1900)[60]
- May 31 – Abel Bonnard, French poet, novelist and politician (born 1883)[61]
- June 1 – Helen Keller, deaf-blind American author, activist and lecturer (born 1880)[62]
- August 21 - Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian writer (born 1893)[63]
- November 17 – Mervyn Peake, English novelist (dementia, born 1911)[64]
- November 25 – Upton Sinclair, American novelist and politician (born 1878)[65]
- November 28 – Enid Blyton, English author and poet (born 1897)[66]
- December 5 – Anna Kavan, British novelist, short story writer and painter (born 1901)[67]
- December 20 – John Steinbeck, American novelist (congestive heart failure, born 1902)[68]
- December 24 – D. Gwenallt Jones, Welsh poet (born 1899)[69]
Marshall, Rita (January 2, 1968). "C. Day Lewis Is Poet Laureate". The Times. No. 57138. London. p. 1.
Elsaesser, Thomas (1996). Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity, Subject. Amsterdam University Press. p. 301. ISBN 90-5356-059-9.
Hallo, William W.; Van Dijk, J. J. A. (1968). The Exaltation of Inanna. New Haven: Yale University Press.
John M. Reilly (2015). Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer. p. 254.
George L. Scheper (1986). Michael Innes. Ungar. p. 186.
Hubin, Allen J. (September 15, 1968). "Blackmail unlimited". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
Scarberry-García, Susan. Landmarks of Healing: a Study of House Made of Dawn. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1990. Print.
Raicu, Lucian (1968). "Mișcarea literară 1968. Romanul total". România Literară (11): 1.
Barnes, Simon, "Magic in Action: Coincidences in A Dance to the Music of Time." Secret Harmonies 10 (Spring 2023):149-157.
The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark. Edinburgh University Press. 2010. p. 21. ISBN 9780748637706.
The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television. Springer International Publishing. 2019. p. 45. ISBN 9783030176204.
The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 331. ISBN 9780547348896.
College Language Association (U.S.) (1977). CLA Journal. College Language Association. p. 556.
"YIVO News" (PDF). No. 206. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Spring 2010. p. 12. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
Ronald Gottesman; Harry M. Geduld (1972). Guidebook to Film: An Eleven-in-one Reference. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. 22.
The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature. Cambridge University Press. 2019. p. 403. ISBN 9781107106765.
Al-Khaqani, Abdullah (2000). Mawsūʻat al-Najaf al-Ashraf موسوعة النجف الأشرف [Encyclopedia of Najaf] (in Arabic). Vol. 20 (first ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Adhwa. p. 143.
"Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor". România Liberă. May 31, 1968. p. 5.
Olivier Mathieu (1988). Abel Bonnard, une aventure inachevée (in French). Paris: Léon Degrelle. p. 371.
Kuiper, Kathleen (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield: Merriam-Webster. p. 498. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6.
- Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.