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Journalists, Authors and Literary Related 1998

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o Tony (Paul Anthony) Tanner (18 March 1935 - 5 December 1998)
writer and critics
o Theodore Newhouse (19 July 1903 - 28 November 1998)
publisher
o Laurence Owen Vine Gander (28 January 1915 - 14 November 1998)
journalist
o Quentin Crewe (14 November 1926 - 14 November 1998)
critic, columnist, travel writer
o Gerald Long (22 August 1923 - 8 Nov 1998)
music executives
o (Margaret) Rumer Godden (10 December 197 - 8 November 1998)
writer
o Alfred Mitchell Bingham (28 February 1905 - 2 November 1998)
publisher and writer
o Alfred Owen Hugh Jarman (8 October 1911 - 26 October 1998)
Welsh scholar
o Christian Jelen (23 August 1938 - 25 October 1998)
journalist and author
o Pierre Martory (1 December 1920 - 5 October 1998)
writer and poet
o Dorothy West (2 Jun 1907 - 16 Aug 1998)
Writer and editor
o Gay Allis Rose Clifford (27 Jun 1943 - 22 Jul 1998)
Poet and academic
o Miroslav Holub (23 Sep 1923 - 14 Jul 1998)
Poet and scientist
o Henrik Stangerup (1 Sep 1937 - 4 Jul 1998)
Novelist and film-maker
o Eric Mosbacher (22 Dec 1903 - 2 Jul 1998)
Journalist and translator
o Denis Joseph Ivan Williams (1 Feb 1923 - 28 Jun 1998)
Painter, art historian and teacher, novelist, anthropologist, archaeologist
o Kieran Tunney (14 Oct 1922 - 21 Jun 1998)
Playwright
o Jane Ellis (3 Aug 1951 - 20 Jun 1998)
Russian scholar
o Catherine Ann Cookson (20 Jun 1906 - 11 Jun 1998)
Novelist
o David English (26 May 1931 - 10 Jun 1998)
Journalist
o Ralph Hammond Innes (15 Jul 1913 - 10 Jun 1998)
Writer
o Joseph C. Harsch (25 May 1905 - 3 Jun 1998)
Foreign Correspondent
o Phillip O'Connor (8 Sep 1916 - 29 May 1998)
Writer
o Robert Muller (1 Sep 1925 - 27 May 1998)
Journalist and screenwriter
o Donald Wise (17 Feb 1918 - 20 May 1998)
Journalist
o Boris Ford (1 Jul 1917 - 20 May 1998)
Editor and writer
o John Clendennin Burne Hawkes (17 Aug 1925 - 15 May 1998)
Novelist
o Mordechai Strigler (18 Sep 1923 - 10 May 1998)
Poet, essayist and editor
o Carlos Castaneda (25 Dec 1925 (possibly 1931) - 27 Apr 1998)
Author
o Gregor von Rezzori (13 May 1914 - 23 Apr 1998)
Writer
o Octavio Paz (31 Mar 1914 - 19 Apr 1998)
Poet
o Ronald Millar (12 Nov 1919 - 16 Apr 1998)
Playwright and political speechwriter
o Francis Henry Durbridge (25 Nov 1912 - 11 Apr 1998)
Dramatist
o Morris George Cox (3 May 1903 - 31 Mar 1998)
Poet, novelist, artist and printer
o Dev Murarka (20 Mar 1931 - 26 Mar 1998)
Journalist
o Jack Micheline (Harvey Martin Silver) (6 Nov 1929 - 27 Feb 1998)
Poet
o Henry Livings (20 Sep 1929 - 20 Feb 1998)
Playwright
o Michael Seabrook (3 Mar 1950 - 18 Feb 1998)
Writer
o Ernst Jüaut;nger (29 Mar 1895 - 17 Feb 1998)
Writer, soldier and scientist
o Martha Gellhorn (8 Nov 1908 - 15 Feb 1998)
Journalist
o WIlliam Lambert (1919 - 8 Feb 1998)
Journalist
o Halldór Laxness (23 Apr 1902 - 8 Feb 1998)
Writer
o Harry Hopkins (26 Mar 1913 - 4 Feb 1998)
Writer
o Richard Fairhurst Cooper (5 Apr 1930 - 2 Feb 1998)
Writer
o Robert Geoffrey Trease (11 Aug 1908 - 27 Jan 1998)
Author
o Ernest Gebler (1915 - 26 Jan 1998)
Writer
o Attia Hosain Habibullah (20 Oct 1913 - 25 Jan 1998)
Writer
o Kenneth Loveland (12 Oct 1915 - 25 Jan 1998)
Journalist
o Walter Dumaux Edmonds (15 Jul 1903 - 24 Jan 1998)
Writer
o Xenia Noelle Field (25 Dec 1894 - 24 Jan 1998)
Journalist, gardener and politician
o Chaim Bermant (26 Feb 1929 - 20 Jan 1998)
Novelist and columnist
o Harry Scott Ashmore (1917 - 20 Jan 1998)
Journalist
o Anthony Glyn (13 Mar 1922 - 20 Jan 1998)
Author
o Monica Edwards (8 Nov 1912 - 18 Jan 1998)
Writer and countrywoman
o Robert Giles Rubens (26 Jun 1937 - 14 Jan 1998)
o Andrew Rutherford (23 Jul 1929 - 13 Jan 1998)
University administrator and writer
o John Campbell Wells (17 Nov 1936 - 11 Jan 1998)
Writer, actor and director
o Michael Christopher Phillip (7 Sep 1928 - 10 Jan 1998)
Book editor
o John Cooper (24 Aug 1947 - 9 Jan 1998)
Persian Scholar
o Caroline Margery Conyers Worsdell Bingham (7 Feb 1938 - 8 Jan 1998)
Historian and biographer
o David Wainwright (21 Feb 1929 - 5 Jan 1998)
Author and Journalist
o George Donald King McCormick (11 Dec 1911 - 4 Jan 1998)
Writer
o Ivan Philip Marten Chambers (20 Jan 1902 - 1 Jan 1998)
Bookseller


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