When you deduct the dead writers, that leaves about 4 percent.

Eighty thousand people watched in silence as the dead writer was carried through the streets he invented.

A kind of love grows up between these writers, one living, one dead.

Moreover, a long line of less fortunate dead writers are still waiting their turn.

Yes, it would be so much easier to deal exclusively with dead writers.

It's meant that Hemingway's no longer just a dead writer to some people.

Those of a writer dead before we were born.

But it's the book's artistic success that is startling, not its attempt to invade a dead writer's thoughts.

Although plenty of current books play off the work of dead writers, they're not all cannibalistic.

Mailer didn't understand why people were treating him like a dead writer, either.