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Deaths in January 2007

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1DeadGoodBooks
Jan 4, 2007, 7:22 am

1st January 2007
American feminist writer Tillie Olsen died aged 94. She was the recipient of the O.Henry award in 1961 for Tell me a Riddle.

2lilithcat
Jan 4, 2007, 4:05 pm

Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset has died, aged 84.

3DeadGoodBooks
Jan 11, 2007, 3:41 am

1st January 2007
American novelist and screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides died aged 98 from injuries he received from a fall. His 1938 novel 'The Long Haul' was fillmed as They Drive by Night, starring Humphrey Bogart. His other novels included Thieves Market.

4DeadGoodBooks
Jan 12, 2007, 3:47 am


11th January 2007
American novelist and conspiracy theory researcher Robert Anton Wilson died aged 74. He is best known for co-authoring The Illuminatus! Trilogy.

5DeadGoodBooks
Jan 13, 2007, 5:11 pm

10th January 2007
Children’s author and illustrator Harry Horse died in an apparent suicide pact with his wife.

6DeadGoodBooks
Feb 1, 2007, 6:29 am

30th January 2007
American best-selling popular novelist Sidney Sheldon died aged 89 from pneumonia.

7lilithcat
Feb 1, 2007, 8:57 am

31st January 2007

Molly Ivins died of breast cancer at the age of 62.

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8myshelves
Feb 8, 2007, 2:12 am

Charles L. Fontenay, author of science fiction novels and stories, as well as of a political biography and of works on philosophy, died 27 January 2007, at age 89.

9DeadGoodBooks
Feb 23, 2007, 11:59 am

21st January 2007
American crime author Barbara Seranella died aged 50 from liver disease.

10henkl
Edited: Mar 20, 2007, 3:03 pm

Magnus Magnusson, the presenter of Mastermind on BBC television, and translator of Icelandic sagas, died 7 January 2007 at the age of 77.

11OsideNative
Dec 27, 2007, 12:16 pm

Art Buchwald, columnist/humorist/author died on January 17.

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