New year .... New batch of out-of-copyright authors

[Mike L]

With 2010 a few hours away, I thought it would be interesting to review the authors who are about to come out of copyright, that is, those who shuffled off the mortal coil in 1939 (in countries where copyright expires at the end of the 70th year after the author's death).

Here are the ones I know about:

Ethel M Dell
Ford Madox Ford
Zane Grey
Joseph Roth
W.B. Yeats

And these are some who kicked the bucket in 1959 (where copyright is author's lifetime plus 50 years):

Edwin Balmer
Raymond Chandler
Laurence Housman
Edwin Muir
Sax Rohmer

Can anyone add to these lists?

[Verencat]

Boris Vian, who died in 1959.

[Sparrow]

Looking for people described as a 'writer' who died in 1939 and 1959 at HistoryOrb produced:

1939
Feb 16th - Jura Soyfer, writer, dies at 26
Mar 7th - John Jules Barrish, Irish writer (b. 1885)
Apr 11th - SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50
May 22nd - Ernst Toller, writer, dies at 45
Jun 13th - Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Suljetuilla Porteilla), dies at 64
Sep 9th - S M Tretjakow, writer, dies at 47 [or Aug 9]
Sep 18th - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
Dec 19th - Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death & Devil), dies at 70

1959
Mar 30th - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
Jun 30th - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
Jul 15th - Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (The Dream), dies
Jul 17th - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies
Aug 20th - Alfred Kubin, writer, dies at 82
Sep 22nd - Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60

[Krystian Galaj]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Apr 11th - SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50

All his Philo Vance novels are already available here though. Good read.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

All his Philo Vance novels are already available here though. Good read.

But they could not, until yesterday, be legally downloaded by people in "life + 70" countries. They still can't legally be downloaded by people in the US, of course.

[Donnageddon]

Originally Posted by HarryT

But they could not, until yesterday, be legally downloaded by people in "life + 70" countries. They still can't legally be downloaded by people in the US, of course.

Damn you, Mickey Mouse!