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2004 in literature
See also: 2003 in literature , other events of 2004 , 2005 in literature , list of years in literature .
Events
New books
Deaths
January-February
January 4 , John Toland , author and historian
January 4, Joan Aiken , author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
January 4, Jeff Nuttall , poet, publisher, and author of Bomb Culture
January 10 , Alexandra Ripley , author of Scarlett
January 10/11 ?, Spalding Gray , actor and author
January 13 , Zeno Vendler , philosopher and linguist
January 14 , Jack Cady , science fiction author
January 15 , Olivia Goldsmith , author
January 15, Alex Barris , Canadian actor and writer
January 22 , George Woodbridge , illustrator
January 29 , M. M. Kaye , author of The Far Pavilions
29 January , Janet Frame , New Zealand author
February 2 , Alan Bullock , historian
February 4 , Hilda Hilst , Brazilian novelist
February 5 , Frances Partridge , last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group
February 7 , Norman Thelwell , cartoonist
February 8 , Julius Schwartz , comic book and pulp magazine editor
February 16 , Bill Oakley , comic book letterer
February 19 , Hermann Krings , German philosopher
February 27 , Paul Sweezy , economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review February 28 , Daniel J. Boorstin , historian
February 29 , Jerome Lawrence , playwright
March-December
March 9 , Albert Mol , author, actor, and dancer
March 30 , Dr Michael King OBE New Zealand historian , author and biographer
May 2 , Paul Guimard , French writer
April 26 , Hubert Selby, Jr. , American author
July 1 , Peter Barnes , playwright
October 16 , Vincent Brome , English biographer and novellist
October 20 , Anthony Hecht , American poet
November 24 , Arthur Hailey , Canadian author
December 8 , Jackson Mac Low , American poet
December 12 , Phaswane Mpe , South African novelist (b. 1970 )
December 28 , Susan Sontag , American novelist (b. 1933 )
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