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American Book Awards

literary award in the United States

Memorial Pages

72 memorial pages

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Renato Rosaldo

01/01/1941 – 05/26/2026

85 years

American anthropologist

Illinois

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Michael Parenti

09/30/1933 – 01/24/2026

92 years

American academic

Berkeley

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Alexander Kuo

01/01/1939 – 06/11/2025

86 years

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Nikki Giovanni

06/07/1943 – 12/09/2024

81 years

American poet, writer and activist

Blacksburg

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Shuntarō Tanikawa

12/15/1931 – 11/13/2024

92 years

Japanese poet

Tokyo

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Jerome Rothenberg

12/11/1931 – 04/21/2024

92 years

Encinitas

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Louise Meriwether

05/08/1923 – 10/10/2023

100 years

Manhattan

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Daniel Ellsberg

04/07/1931 – 06/16/2023

92 years

American whistleblower

Kensington

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Russell Banks

03/28/1940 – 01/07/2023

82 years

American writer

Saratoga Springs

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Agate Nesaule

01/23/1938 – 06/29/2022

84 years

United States

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bell hooks

09/25/1952 – 12/15/2021

69 years

American author and activist

Berea

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Floyd Salas

01/01/1931 – 10/17/2021

90 years

Berkeley

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Al Young

05/31/1939 – 04/17/2021

81 years

California

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Judy Yung

01/01/1946 – 12/14/2020

74 years

United States

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Toni Morrison

02/18/1931 – 08/05/2019

88 years

African American novelist, essayist, and academic

The Bronx

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Kevin Killian

12/24/1952 – 06/15/2019

66 years

San Francisco

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Linda Gregg

09/09/1942 – 03/20/2019

76 years

New York City

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Cheri Register

01/01/1945 – 03/07/2018

73 years

United States

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William H. Gass

07/30/1924 – 12/06/2017

93 years

American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor

University City

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Cynthia Stokes Brown

03/20/1938 – 10/15/2017

79 years

United States

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Doris Seale

07/10/1936 – 02/17/2017

80 years

United States

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Gloria Naylor

01/25/1950 – 09/28/2016

66 years

Christiansted

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Joyce Carol Thomas

05/25/1938 – 08/13/2016

78 years

Stanford

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Maurice Kenny

08/16/1929 – 04/16/2016

86 years

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