Writers we lost in 2014

Gabriel Garcia Marquez greets fans on his 87th birthday. The Nobel Prize-winning author of “100 Years of Solitude” died about a month later, in April.  (Eduardo Verdugo / Associated Press)

Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, known for her literary critiques of apartheid, died in South Africa in July; she was 90.  (Ulf Andersen / Getty Images)

Poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka, shown reading in 2003, died in January at age 79.  (Robert Abbott Sengstacke / Getty Images)

Norman Bridwell, creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog, died at age 86 in December.  (Stuart Ramson / Associated Press)

National Book Award-winning novelist Peter Matthiessen, a co-founder of The Paris Review, died in April at age 86.  (Ee Betz / Associated Press)

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand, shown at the 1999 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, died in November at age 80.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell, shown in 1985, died in October at age 87.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Lauren Bacall in 1950 with her husband, Humphrey Bogart. Bacall, who wrote three candid memoirs, told The Times, “Writing a book is the most complete experience I’ve ever had.” She died in August at age 89.   (Uncredited / AP)

Louis Zamperini, Olympian and World War II veteran, in 2002 with his memoir, “Devil at My Heels.” Author Laura Hillenbrand’s book about him, “Unbroken,” has been adapted as a film; Zamperini died in July at 97.  (Richard Hartog / Los Angeles Times)

Writer and spoken-word artist Maggie Estep died in February in Albany, N.Y., two days after having a heart attack; she was 50.  (Bob Berg / Getty Images)