Here are 10 authors/writers who made a big difference in the world, who died this past year:
1. Elmore Leonard
2. Tom Clancy
3. Seamus Heaney
4. Haynes Johnson
5. Frederik Pohl
6. Stanley Karnow
7. Doris Lessing
8. Chinua Achebe
9. Abigail Van Buren 10. Oscar Hijuelos