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- January 12 – David Mitchell, English novelist[16]
- January 17 – Michael Moynihan, American journalist and publisher
- January 21 – M. K. Hobson, American speculative fiction author
- March – Jez Butterworth, English dramatist and screenwriter
- May 6 – Emmanuel Larcenet, French comics author
- May 6 – John Scalzi, American science-fiction author
- May 28 – Muriel Barbery, French novelist[17]
- May 29 – Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Korean-born novelist (suicide 1995)
- June 13 – Virginie Despentes, French writer
- July 5 – Armin Kõomägi, Estonian author and screenwriter
- August 4 – Jojo Moyes, English journalist and romantic novelist
- September 12 - James Frey, American writer
- September 30 - Julianna Baggott, American novelist, essayist, and poet
- October 24 – Emma Donoghue, Irish-born Canadian novelist, dramatist, and academic
- November 13 – John Belluso, American dramatist (died 2006)
- November 28 – Hanne Ørstavik, Norwegian novelist[18]
- November 30 – David Auburn, American dramatist
- unknown dates
- January 11 – Richmal Crompton, English children's writer (born 1890)[20]
- January 21 – Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (born 1895)
- March 9 – Charles Brackett, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1892)
- March 11 – John Wyndham, English science fiction novelist (born 1903)[21]
- March 24 – Margery Fish, English gardening writer (born 1892)
- March 25 – Max Eastman, American writer (born 1883)[22]
- March 26 – John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (suicide, born 1937)
- March 27 – B. Traven, presumed German-born novelist (unknown year of birth)
- April 6 – Gabriel Chevallier, French writer (born 1895)
- April 7 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician, 48th President of Venezuela (born 1884)[23]
- May 4 – Osbert Sitwell, English novelist and poet (born 1892)[24]
- July 24 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish playwright and novelist (born 1904)[25]
- July 27 – Vivian de Sola Pinto, English poet and memoirist (born 1895)[26]
- August 10 – Maurine Dallas Watkins, American journalist/play and screenwriter (born 1896)
- August 14 – Leonard Woolf, English political theorist (born 1880)[27]
- August 27 – Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (born 1884)[28]
- September 6 – Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and author (cancer, born 1914)[29]
- September 17 – Greye La Spina, American dramatist and short story writer (born 1880)
- September 20 – Elinor Brent-Dyer, English children's writer (born 1894)
- September 22 – Rachel Davis Harris, African American librarian (born 1869)
- October 14 – August Sang, Estonian poet and literary translator (born 1914)
- October 21 – Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet (internal hemorrhage, born 1922)[30]
- November 6 – Susan Taubes, Hungarian American writer and Jewish intellectual (suicide, born 1928)
- November 15 – Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (born 1925)
Ross McKibbin (2019). Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History. Oxford University Press. p. 73. ISBN 9780198834205.
Carol Ann Shine. "Review: DE CAMP, L. Sprague. The Golden Wind". Library Journal (Mar. 15, 1969): 1159–1160.
Alan Goble (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 224.
A History of Norwegian Literature. University of Nebraska Press. 1993. p. 308. ISBN 0803233175.
Gaetana Marrone (2007). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J. Routledge. p. 742.
Kruger, Loren (1999). The drama of South Africa : plays, pageants, and publics since 1910. London New York: Routledge. p. 219. ISBN 9781134680863.
Ousby, Ian (1996). Cambridge paperback guide to literature in English. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 227. ISBN 9780521436274.
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Taylor & Francis. 1997. p. 630. ISBN 9781135314255.
Glendinning, Victoria (2006). Leonard Woolf : a biography. New York: Free Press. p. 435. ISBN 9780743289184.
Oxbury, Harold (1985). Great Britons: twentieth-century lives. Oxford Oxfordshire New York: Oxford University Press. p. 239. ISBN 9780192115997.