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Overview of the events of 2021 in literature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2021.
Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
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Amanda Gorman | The Hill We Climb: Poems | March 30, US | |
Hannah Lowe | The Kids | September 16, US | [10] |
Amanda Gorman | Call Us What We Carry | December 7, US |
Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
Blake Bailey | Philip Roth: The Biography | May 26 | [96] |
Hunter Biden | Beautiful Things | April 6 | [97] |
Brian Broome | Punch Me Up to the Gods | May 18 | |
Walter Isaacson | The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race | March 9 | [98] |
Sinéad O'Connor | Rememberings | June 1 | [99] |
Nadia Owusu | Aftershocks: A Memoir | January 12 | [100] |
Michelle Zauner | Crying in H Mart | April 20 | [101] |
Individual | Background | Date of Death | Age | Cause of Death | Ref. |
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Mary Catherine Bateson | Daughter of Margaret Mead, American author and anthropologist | January 2 | 81 | Brain damage | [102] |
Eric Jerome Dickey | American novelist | January 3 | 59 | Cancer | [103] |
Neil Sheehan | American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author | January 7 | 84 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [104] |
Christopher Little | J. K. Rowling's literary agent | January 7 | 79 | Cancer | [105][106] |
Ved Mehta | MacArthur Fellow, New Yorker writer, influential mentor,[107] and chronicler of India | January 9 | 87 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [108] |
Vassilis Alexakis | Greek-born French writer and translator | January 11 | 77 | [109] | |
Sharon Kay Penman | American historian and novelist | January 22 | 75 | Pneumonia | [110] |
Martha Madrigal | Mexican poet | January 23 | 92 | COVID-19 | [citation needed] |
Lars Norén | Swedish playwright, novelist and poet | January 26 | 77 | COVID-19 | [111] |
Maria Guarnaschelli | American cookbook editor | February 6 | 79 | Heart disease | [112] |
Jean-Claude Carrière | French novelist, screenwriter and actor | February 8 | 89 | [113] | |
Lawrence Otis Graham | American essayist and cultural critic | February 19 | 59 | [114] | |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti | American beat poet, publisher, and co-founder of City Lights Bookstore | February 22 | 101 | Interstitial lung disease | [115] |
Enrique González Rojo, Jr. | Mexican writer and philosopher | March 5 | 92 | [116] | |
N. S. Lakshminarayan Bhat | Indian poet | March 6 | 84 | [117] | |
Valentin Kurbatov | Russian literary critic and writer | March 6 | 81 | [118] | |
Djibril Tamsir Niane | Guinean writer and historian | March 8 | 89 | COVID-19 | [119] |
Norton Juster | American writer | March 8 | 91 | Complication from a stroke | [120] |
Joan Walsh Anglund | American poet and children's book author and illustrator | March 9 | 95 | Heart failure | [121] |
Robert Middlekauff | American historian | March 10 | 91 | Complication from a stroke | [122] |
Nawal El Saadawi | Egyptian feminist and writer | March 21 | 89 | [123] | |
Adam Zagajewski | Polish poet | March 21 | 75 | [124] | |
Morris Dickstein | American literary critic and cultural historian | March 24 | 81 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [125] |
Beverly Cleary | Children's book writer | March 25 | 104 | [126] | |
Larry McMurtry | American novelist | March 25 | 84 | [127] | |
Giancarlo DiTrapano | Founder of Tyrant Books | March 30 | 47 | [128][129] | |
Arthur Kopit | American playwright | April 2 | 83 | [130] | |
Denis Donoghue | Irish academic and literary critic | April 6 | 92 | [131] | |
Vartan Gregorian | Saved the New York Public Library | April 15 | 87 | [132] | |
Anthony Thwaite | English poet and editor | April 22 | 90 | [133] | |
Pieter Aspe | Belgian writer | May 2 | 68 | [134] | |
Jesús Hilario Tundidor | Spanish poet | May 2 | 85 | [135] | |
Lucinda Franks | Journalist and memoirist, first women to win a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting | May 5 | 74 | [136] | |
Kentaro Miura | Japanese manga artist | May 6 | 54 | Acute aortic dissection | [137] |
Eric Carle | American children's book writer and illustrator | May 23 | 91 | Kidney failure | [138] |
Dan Frank | Editorial director of Pantheon Books | May 24 | 67 | [139] | |
Friederike Mayröcker | Austrian poet and writer | June 4 | 96 | [140] | |
Richard Robinson | Turned Scholastic into a major children's book publisher | June 5 | 84 | [141] | |
Janet Malcolm | American journalist, biographer, and writer for The New Yorker | June 16 | 86 | Lung cancer | [142] |
Stephen Dunn | American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet | June 24 | 82 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [143] |
Elizabeth Martinez | American author who jumpstarted the Chicana movement | June 29 | 95 | [144] | |
Athan Theoharis | American historian | July 3 | 84 | Pneumonia | [145] |
Roberto Calasso | Italian novelist, critic, scholar, and publisher | July 28 | 80 | [146] | |
Jean Breeze | Jamaican dub poet and storyteller | August 4 | 65 | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) | [147] |
Donald Kagan | American historian | August 6 | 89 | [148] | |
Jill Murphy | British children's author and illustrator | August 18 | 72 | Cancer | [149] |
James W. Loewen | American sociologist and author | August 19 | 79 | Bladder cancer | [150] |
David Roberts | American adventure writer | August 20 | 78 | [151] | |
Russ Kick | American writer and ediot | September 12 | 52 | [152] | |
Charles W. Mills | American philosopher | September 20 | 70 | Cancer | [153] |
Takao Saito | Japanese manga artist | September 24 | 84 | Pancreatic cancer | [154] |
Gary Paulsen | American author | October 13 | 82 | Cardiac arrest | [155] |
Máire Mhac an tSaoi | Irish language scholar and poet | October 16 | 99 | [156] | |
Brendan Kennelly | Irish poet | October 17 | 85 | [157] | |
Jerry Pinkney | American children's book writer and illustrator | October 20 | 81 | Heart attack | [158] |
Raúl Rivero | Cuban poet | November 6 | 75 | [159] | |
Sylvère Lotringer | French literary critic and founder of Semiotexte(e) | November 8 | 83 | [160] | |
Jakucho Setouchi | Japanese feminist writer | November 9 | 99 | Heart failure | [161] |
Petra Mayer | American book editor | November 13 | 46 | Pulmonary embolism | [162] |
Etel Adnan | Lebanese-American novelist | November 14 | 96 | [163] | |
Robert Bly | American poet, translator, and author | November 21 | 96 | Complications of Alzheimer's disease | [164] |
Almudena Grandes | Spanish novelist | November 21 | 94 | Cancer | [165] |
Andrew Vachss | American crime writer | November 23 | 79 | Coronary artery disease | [166] |
Marie-Claire Blais | Canadian writer | November 30 | 82 | [167] | |
Miroslav Zikmund | Czech adventurer, travel writer and film director | December 1 | 102 | [168] | |
Greg Tate | American journalist and cultural critic | December 7 | 64 | [169] | |
Anne Rice | American author | December 12 | 80 | Complications from a stroke | [170] |
bell hooks | American author and feminist | December 15 | 69 | Kidney failure | [171][172][173] |
Madhur Kapila | Indian journalist, novelist, art critic, and reviewer of Hindi literature | December 19 | 79 | Cardiac arrest | [174] |
Myrna Manzanares | Belizean writer and activist | December 21 | 75 | Complications from a stroke | [175] |
Joan Didion | American author and memoirist | December 23 | 87 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [176] |
Keri Hulme | New Zealand writer (The Bone People) and poet | December 25 | 74 | Chronic medical issues | [177] |
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