Top Five US Literary Giants who have Died Recently

by Ernie on 02/02/10 at 9:50 am

5. J.D. Salinger

4. John Updike

3. Norman Mailer

2. Erich Segal (Just kidding!)


The real number 2: David Foster Wallace


1. Kurt Vonnegut

Plus five non-fiction writers with very great influence.

Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss

Historian Howard Zinn

Feminist Mary Daly

Autobiographer Frank McCourt

And the subject of one non-fiction work: Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank from the Nazis.

Hang on, Harper Lee!

2 Responses to “Top Five US Literary Giants who have Died Recently”

  1. Elizabeth

    Feb 3rd, 2010

    Dear Sirs:

    Grace Paley

  2. Ernie

    Feb 3rd, 2010

    Yes! Of course. I somehow thought she was still alive. Fine addition.

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