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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)
Awards
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