Deaths
- January 12 - Lady Violet Powell, literary critic, 89
- January 28 - Astrid Lindgren, children's author, 94
- February 8 - Joachim Hoffmann, 71
- February 21 - A. L. Barker, novelist, 83
- February 27 - Spike Milligan, comedian, writer and actor
- March 21 - Thomas Flanagan, novelist, 78
- May 17 - Dave Berg, cartoonist for Mad Magazine, 81
- May 20 - Stephen J. Gould, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and writer
- June 2 - Flora Lewis, journalist, 84
- June 13 - R. W. B. Lewis, critic, 84
- June 20
- Timothy Findley, Canadian author, 71
- Kenneth Kantzer, theologian, 84
- July 23 - Chaim Potok, novelist
- August 25 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet and playwright, 79
- October 13 - Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian and biographer, 66
- October 21 - Harbhajan Singh (poet), poet and critic, 82
- November 8 - Jon Elia, poet and philosopher, 64
- November 19 - Max Reinhardt, publisher, 86
Read more about this topic: 2002 In Literature
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)