1995 in literature

Poetry

Mark Doty – Atlantis: Poems

Non-fiction

André Aciman – Out of Egypt
Jean Baudrillard – The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
John G. Bennett (posthumously) – The Masters of Wisdom
George G. Blackburn – The Guns of Normandy
Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams – The Craft of Research
Pascal Bruckner – The Temptation of Innocence
L. Sprague de Camp – The Ape-Man Within
Tim Cornell – The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars
Paul Davies – About Time
Robin Dunbar – The Trouble with Science
Mark Epstein – Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
Bill Gates – The Road Ahead
Doris Kearns Goodwin – No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Richard Hoffman – Half the House: A Memoir
Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom
Leonard Nimoy – I Am Spock
Leslie and Les Parrott – Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
Man Ray and André Breton – Man Ray, 1890–1976
Condoleezza Rice and Philip Zelikow – Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft
Oliver Sacks – An Anthropologist on Mars
Simon Schama – Landscape and Memory
Sterling Seagrave – Lords of the Rim
Miranda Seymour – Robert Graves: Life on the Edge
Howard Stern – Miss America
Ibn Warraq – Why I Am Not a Muslim
Jane Wesman – Dive Right In: The Sharks Won't Bite^[13]
Jane Wilson-Howarth – Bugs, Bites & Bowels (later editions as The Essential Guide to Travel Health)

January 9 – Peter Cook, English writer, comedian and satirist (born 1937)^[14]
January 30 – Gerald Durrell, English nature writer and naturalist (born 1925)^[15]
January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director and producer (born 1887)^[16]
February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime novelist (born 1921)^[17]
February 6
- James Merrill, American poet (born 1926)^[18]
- Xia Yan (夏衍), Chinese playwright and screenwriter, (born 1900)^[19]
February 14 – Mary Paik Lee, Korean-American writer (born 1900)^[20]
February 20 – Robert Bolt, English dramatist (born 1924)^[21]
February 21 – Calder Willingham, American writer (born 1922)
February 23 – James Herriot, English veterinary novelist (born 1916)^[22]
March 9 – Ian Ballantine, American publisher (born 1916)^[23]
March 20 – Sidney Kingsley, American dramatist (born 1906)^[24]
April 14 – Brian Coffey, Irish poet (born 1905)^[25]
April 27 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (born 1921)^[26]
May 30 or May 31 – Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu, Romanian novelist, memoirist and poet (born 1897)
June 14 – Roger Zelazny, American fantasy and science fiction writer (born 1937)^[27]
June 15 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter (born 1899)^[28]
June 20 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (born 1911)
June 21– Katarína Lazarová, Slovak novelist and translator (born 1914)
June 25 – Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Taiwanese Chinese novelist (suicide, born 1969)
July 6 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer (born 1915)^[29]
July 13 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (born 1908)^[30]
July 16
- May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet, novelist and memoirist (born 1912)
- Stephen Spender, English poet (born 1909)^[31]
July 25 – Janice Elliott, English novelist and children's writer (born 1931)
August 3 – Edward Whittemore, American novelist, (born 1933)
August 17 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (born 1901)^[32]
August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and writer (born 1910)
August 29 – Michael Ende, German fantasy novelist (born 1929)^[33]
September 8 – Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (born 1920)^[34]
October 13 – Henry Roth, Austrian-born American novelist and short story writer (born 1906)
October 22 – Kingsley Amis, English novelist (born 1922)^[35]
October 29 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (born 1924)^[36]
November 4 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (born 1925)^[37]
November 10 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer (executed, born 1941)
November 13 – Mary Elizabeth Counselman, American author and poet (born 1911)
November 16 – Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian (born 1919)
November 17 – Marguerite Young, American novelist, poet and biographer (born 1908)
November 20 – Robie Macauley, American writer and literary critic (born 1919)^[38]
November 22 – Margaret St. Clair, American science fiction writer (born 1911)^[39]
December 2 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (born 1913)^[40]
December 9 – Toni Cade Bambara, American writer (born 1939)
December 30 – Heiner Müller, German dramatist (born 1929)^[41]

Notes

Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

1995 in literature

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