The phrase "a dead writer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an author who has passed away, often in discussions about their works or literary contributions.
Example: "Many readers still find inspiration in the works of a dead writer like Edgar Allan Poe."
Alternatives: "an author who has passed away" or "a deceased author".
Jim Carroll: What Do We Owe a Dead Writer?
(+$200) Your book is dedicated to a dead writer you never met.
On the other hand, if it is a biographical-critical treatise on a dead writer, it is the oddest and most whimsical such since Nabokov's "Nikolai Gogol".
What they find is a dead writer and a device that allows a glimpse of the future, including the geological nightmare that will destroy the planet.
P.R.: Unlike Kliman or Jamie or Zuckerman, George Plimpton isn't an active, living character in my novel — he is another dead writer and is spoken of at length by Zuckerman, a literary friend of his, as a dead writer.
She sold her papers to U.C.L.A., and since her death, in 2004, Rieff has excavated and edited them: the diaries of a dead writer who stood, as long as she could, in willful refusal to die.
There's a Dead Writers sample pack for the indecisive, or simply Dead Writers Perfume, a unisex scent that "evokes the feeling of sitting in an old library chair paging through yellowed copies of Hemingway, Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Poe". Time to crack a spine and get spritzing.
His speciality is what might be called biog-thrillers, in which a famous dead writer becomes a cause of crime.
Larson had also bettered me in my ambition to be a great dead writer.
He pursues the dead writer as a solace for his own disappointments; his literary obsession is, as the epigraph implies, a personal matter.
These novels, written in the person or from the point of view of a dead great writer, include Laura Joh Rowland's playful "Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë" (Charlotte as sleuth) and Colm Toibin's insightful novel of Henry James, "The Master," and let's not get started on Jane Austen.
