List of centenarians (authors, poets and journalists)

The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as authors, poets and journalists – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
M. H. Abrams	1912–2015	102	American literary critic
Nan Agle	1905–2006	100	American children's writer
Said Akl	1911/1912–2014	102/103	Lebanese writer and poet
Francisco Ayala	1906–2009	103	Spanish novelist
Ba Jin	1904–2005	100	Chinese author
Ralph Bates	1899–2000	101	English novelist
Georgina Battiscombe	1905–2006	100	British biographer
Pierre Béarn	1902–2004	102	French poet
José Bello	1904–2008	103	Spanish writer
Edward Bernays	1891–1995	103	Austrian-born American publicist
Harry Bernstein	1910–2011	101	English-American author
Colm de Bhailís	1796–1906	109	Irish poet and songwriter
H. J. Blackham	1903–2009	105	British humanist author and philosopher
Lesley Blanch	1904–2007	102	English author and fashion critic
Ralph de Boissière	1907–2008	100	Trinidadian-Australian author
Salvador Borrego	1915–	108	Mexican journalist
Arthur Judson Brown	1856–1963	106	American clergyman, missionary, and author
William Slater Brown	1896–1997	100	American novelist, biographer, and translator
Elfriede Brüning	1910–2014	103	German journalist and novelist
Fulgence Charpentier	1897–2001	103	Canadian journalist and columnist
Nirad C. Chaudhuri	1897–1999	101	Bengali-Indian writer
Yehuda Chitrik	1899–2006	106	American-Jewish author and Mashpia
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier	1914–	109	French poet
Julia Clements	1906–2010	104	English author and flower arranger
Norman Corwin	1910–2011	101	American writer, screenwriter, and producer
Fleur Cowles	1908–2009	101	American author, editor and artist
Victoriano Crémer	1906–2009	102	Spanish poet
Ève Curie	1904–2007	102	Daughter of Marie Curie and American author of biography of her mother
Geoffrey Dearmer	1893–1996	103	British poet
Annie Elizabeth Delany	1891–1995	104	American author and civil rights pioneer
Sarah Louise Delany	1889–1999	109	American author and civil rights pioneer
Güzin Dino	1910–2013	102	Turkish writer
Marjory Stoneman Douglas	1890–1998	108	American conservationist and writer
Milt Dunnell	1905–2008	102	Canadian sportswriter
Oscar Dystel	1912–2014	101	American publisher
Richard Eberhart	1904–2005	101	American Pulitzer Prize winning poet
Julius Eisenstein	1854–1956	101	Russian-American writer and historian
Jeannette Eyerly	1908–2008	100	American writer
Charles Fern	1892–1995	102	American journalist and aviator
Juan Filloy	1894–2000	105	Argentinian writer
Neta Lohnes Frazier	1890–1990	100	American children's author
Mariana Frenk-Westheim	1898–2004	106	German-Spanish writer
Jean Fritz	1915–	108	American children's author
Dorothy Frooks	1896–1997	101	American author, publisher, military figure and actress
Luciana Frassati Gawronska	1902–2007	105	Polish-Italian author
Margot Gayle	1908–2008	100	American author and historical preservationist
Edward K. Gaylord	1873–1974	101	American newspaper publisher and philanthropist
Itche Goldberg	1904–2006	102	Yiddish writer, scholar and political activist
Bernice Gordon	1914–2015	101	American cruciverbalist
George F. Grant	1906–2008	102	American author on angling and innovator of fly tying
Ruth Gruber	1911–	112	American journalist and writer
Andrés Henestrosa	1906–2008	101	Mexican writer and politician
Học Phi	1913–2014	101	Vietnamese dramatist
Clare Hollingworth	1911–	112	British journalist, first correspondent to report on World War II
William Arthur Irwin	1898–1999	101	Canadian journalist and diplomat
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh	1892–1997	105	Iranian writer
Elizabeth Jenkins	1905–2010	104	English novelist
Ernst Jünger	1895–1998	102	German writer
Irena Jurgielewiczowa	1903–2003	100	Polish author
Joseph Nathan Kane	1899–2002	103	American author
Bel Kaufman	1911–2014	103	German-born American novelist and professor
Hans Keilson	1909–2011	101	German-Dutch novelist
Sasha Krasny	1882–1995	112	Russian poet
Stanley Kunitz	1905–2006	100	American Poet Laureate
Anthony Lawrence	1912–2013	101	British journalist
Michio Mado	1909–2014	104	Japanese poet
Clément Marchand	1912–2013	100	Canadian author, poet and journalist and publisher
Klára Marik	1903–2005	101	Hungarian writer and Olympic art competitor
Claire Martin	1914–2014	100	Canadian writer
Kojima Masajirō	1894–1994	100	Japanese novelist
Joe Medicine Crow	1913–	110	American Crow historian and author
Erik Mesterton	1903–2004	100	Swedish writer
Curt Meyer-Clason	1910–2012	101	German writer and translator
Draja Mickaharic	1912–	112	American author and occulist
Naomi Mitchison	1897–1999	101	Scottish writer
Alicia Moreau de Justo	1885–1986	100	Argentine writer
Ruth Munce	1898–2001	103	American romance novelist and founder of the Keswick Christian School
Carla Porta Musa	1902–2012	110	Italian essayist and poet
Maurice Nadeau	1911–2013	102	French writer and editor
Fumio Niwa	1904–2005	100	Japanese novelist
Boris Pahor	1913–	110	Slovene writer
Lillian Rogers Parks	1897–1997	100	American co-author of White House memoirs
Frances Partridge	1900–2004	103	English member of the Bloomsbury Group
James Larkin Pearson	1879–1981	101	American Poet Laureate of North Carolina (1953–1981)
Nicanor Parra	1914–	109	Chilean poet
Fernando Pessa	1902–2002	100	Portuguese journalist and radio broadcaster
Chapman Pincher	1914–2014	100	British writer
Ida Pollock	1908–2013	105	British romance novelist
Giuseppe Prezzolini	1882–1982	100	Italian journalist and writer
Edith B. Price	1897–1997	100	American author of children's books
Carl Rakosi	1903–2004	101	American Objectivist poet
Joana Raspall i Juanola	1913–2013	100	Spanish writer
Pura Santillan-Castrence	1905–2007	101	Filipino author and diplomat
George Seldes	1890–1995	104	American journalist and writer
K. D. Sethna	1904–2011	106	Indian author and poet
Toyo Shibata	1911–2013	101	Japanese poet
Barbosa Lima Sobrinho	1897–2000	103	Brazilian historian, writer and journalist
Marga Spiegel	1912–2014	101	German writer
Edna Staebler	1906–2006	100	Canadian writer
Margarita Stāraste-Bordevīka	1914–2014	100	Latvian writer
Barrie Stavis	1906–2007	100	American playwright
Grace Zaring Stone	1891–1991	100	American novelist
Audrey Stubbart	1895–2000	105	American newspaper columnist
Peter Stursberg	1913–2014	101	Canadian writer and broadcaster
Surdas	1478–1583	104–105	Indian Hindu poet and saint
Dragutin Tadijanović	1905–2007	101	Croatian poet and writer
Gladys Tantaquidgeon	1899–2005	106	American anthropologist and author
Ellen Tarry	1906–2008	101	American author of children's books
Jean Bell Thomas	1881–1982	101	American folk festival promoter, traveler and author
Frits Thors	1909–2014	104	Dutch journalist and news anchor
Walter Trohan	1903–2003	100	American writer and historian
Daisy Turner	1883–1988	104	American storyteller and poet
William Ungar	1913–2013	100	Polish-born American author
Edward Upward	1903–2009	105	English writer
Edward Wagenknecht	1900–2004	104	American co-author of White House memoirs
Arthur Walworth	1903–2005	101	American writer and biographer of Woodrow Wilson
Curt Weibull	1886–1991	105	Swedish historian and author
Phyllis A. Whitney	1903–2008	104	American mystery writer
Herman Wouk	1915–	108	American author
Yang Jiang	1911–	112	Chinese playwright, author, and translator
Lester Ziffren	1906–2007	101	First American journalist to report on the Spanish Civil War