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o Richard Martin Elman (23 Apr 1934 - 31 Dec 1997)
Social worker, writer and novelist
o Brendan Gill (4 Oct 1914 - 27 Dec 1997)
Journalist
o Denise Levertov (24 Oct 1923 - 20 Dec 1997)
Poet
o Owen Barfield (9 Nov 1898 - 14 Dec 1997)
Philosopher of language
o Martin Carter (7 Jun 1927 - 13 Dec 1997)
Poet and critic
o Daphne Fielding (11 Jun 1904 - 5 Dec 1997)
Socialite and writer
o Tom Blackburn (22 Jan 1926 - 22 Nov 1997)
Writer
o William Matthews (1942 - 12 Nov 1997)
Poet
o Richard Hornberger (1924 - 4 Nov 1997)
Physician and novelist
o Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell (27 Jul 1942 - 29 Sep 1997)
Journalist and musician
o Ruth Picardie (1 May 1964 - 22 Sep 1997)
Journalist
o Henry (Harry) Brian Boyne (29 Jul 1910 - 18 Sep 1997)
Journalist
o Judith Merril (Josephine Juliet Grossman) (21 Jan 1923 - 12 Sep 1997)
Science fiction writer
o Leon Edel (9 Sep 1907 - 5 Sep 1997)
Biographer
o Robert Pinget (19 Jul 1919 - 25 Aug 1997)
Novelist And Playwright
o James Dewar (23 Dec 1926 - 25 Aug 1997)
Journalist and documentary film-maker
o Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (8 Oct 1925 - 25 Feb 1997)
Writer and critic
o Leo Rosten (11 Apr 1908 - 19 Feb 1997)
Writer and humourist
o Emily Hahn (1905 - 18 Feb 1997)
Writer
o Nora Beloff (24 Jan 1919 - 12 Feb 1997)
Journalist
o Bohumil Hrabal (28 Mar 1914 - 3 Feb 1997)
Writer
o Mitchell Goodman (1925 - 1 Feb 1997)
Writer
o Osvaldo Soriano (6 Jan 1943 - 29 Jan 1997)
Writer
o Louis Pauwels (2 Aug 1920 - 29 Jan 1997)
Writer and editor
o James Colin Ross Welch (23 Apr 1924 - 28 Jan 1997)
Journalist
o Antôumflex;nio Callado (26 Jan 1917 - 28 Jan 1997)
Novelist and journalist
o Cecil Lewis (29 Mar 1898 - 27 Jan 1997)
Airman and writer
o Matthew Coady (7 Nov 1923 - 27 Jan 1997)
Journalist
o Herbert Eugene Caen (4 Apr 1916 - 25 Jan 1997)
Columnist
o Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro (5 Nov 1923 - 22 Jan 1997)
Medical journalist
o Mollie Panter-Downes (25 Aug 1906 - 22 Jan 1997)
Writer
o James Dickey (2 Feb 1923 - 19 Jan 1997)
poet and novelist
o Jean-Edern Hallier (1 Mar 1936 - 12 Jan 1997)
Writer
o Helen Foster Snow (21 Sep 1907 - 11 Jan 1997)
Writer
o Elspeth Josceline Huxley (23 Jul 1907 - 10 Jan 1997)
Writer
o Junaidu ibn Buhari (1906 - 9 Jan 1997)
Scholar
o Phyllis Hartnoll (22 Sep 1906 - 8 Jan 1997)
Writer and editor
o Desmond Flower (25 Aug 1907 - 7 Jan 1997)
Publisher
o Desmond Flower (25 Aug 1907 - 7 Jan 1997)
Publisher
o Ian Peter Leslie Smith (3 May 1944 - 6 Jan 1997)
Journalist


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