Evelyn Fox Keller obituary

American theoretical physicist, philosopher and writer who viewed the history of science and gender through a feminist lens

Louise Glück obituary

Former US poet laureate who could create a landscape in her work that made her seem a visionary

Maurice Leitch obituary

Radio drama producer and writer whose novel Poor Lazarus won the Guardian fiction prize in 1969

Anthony Stevens obituary

Analyst and psychiatrist who proposed a science of human nature that embraced psychology, anthropology and medicine

Clare Thomson obituary

Other lives: Journalist and teacher whose family background led her to write about Estonia and the Baltic states

Edith Grossman obituary

Exceptional translator of novels by Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa as well as other Hispanic authors

Tobias Hill obituary

Novelist and poet who was intrigued by what lay beneath the surface of things and whose fiction often had London at its heart

Jimmy Buffett obituary

American singer and songwriter best known for his 1977 hit Margaritaville who went on to become a successful businessman

Isabel Crook obituary

Canadian anthropologist who joined Mao Zedong’s rural revolution and stayed on to build a ‘new China’

James Leavey obituary

Other Lives: Journalist, writer and computer games developer who wrote the Sharing an Ashtray column for Punch magazine

Martin Walser obituary

Journalist, writer and novelist who played a controversial role in the cultural life of postwar Germany

Peter Skipp obituary

Other lives: Translator who interpreted for the EU, Nato and several Bulgarian presidents

Nicky Singer obituary

Other lives: Author and playwright whose novel Feather Boy was adapted into a BBC TV children’s drama