Question: Breakfast of Champions is the seventh novel by an author that died in this year?

Context articles: Commonwealth (Patchett novel)
Breakfast of Champions
That Old Cape Magic
A Distant Shore (novel)
Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Radiant (novel)
Hungry Hill (novel)
The Runaway Jury
Dexter's Final Cut
Kurt Vonnegut

Commonwealth is the seventh novel by American author Ann Patchett published in 2016.
 The novel begins with an illicit kiss that leads to an affair that destroys two marriages and creates a reluctantly blended family.
 In a series of vignettes spanning fifty years, it tells the story of the six children whose lives were disrupted and how they intertwined.
"Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday," published in 1973, is the seventh novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut.
 Set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Indiana, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast."
 One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a charming but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer, and extensive land and franchise owner, whose mental illness causes him to believe that a science fiction story by the other man, Kilgore Trout, is the literal truth.
 Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane.
 As the novel opens, Trout hitchhikes toward Midland City to appear at an art convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok.
That Old Cape Magic is Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Richard Russo's seventh novel.
 First published in 2009, the novel is much lighter in content than his previous work, the somber 2007 work "Bridge of Sighs", which followed some upstate New York characters across several decades.
A Distant Shore is the seventh novel by Black British author Caryl Phillips, published in 2003 by Secker & Warburg in the UK and Knopf in the US.
 It was a finalist for the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award.
 In the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize it won the Best Book Prize in the Europe and South Asia category and was judged that year's overall .
Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings is the seventh novel by Christopher Moore.
 Published in 2003, it combines elements of absurdist and fantasy fiction, as well as the author's own brand of social commentary and humor.
 A serious theme in the novel involves environmentalism, particularly that associated with whales; and the author's personal research-experience with marine biologists helped to inform much of the story.
Radiant is a science fiction novel by the Canadian author James Alan Gardner.
 It was published in 2004 by HarperCollins Publishers under their Eos Books imprint.
 It is the seventh novel in Gardner's "League of Peoples" series.
 Like the six preceding novels, "Radiant" is set in the middle of the 25th century; like most of them, it takes place in outer space and on alien planets, and features the continuing character Festina Ramos.
Hungry Hill is a novel by prolific British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1943.
 It was her seventh novel.
 There have been 33 editions of the book printed.
The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham.
 It was Grisham's seventh novel.
 The hardcover first edition was published by Doubleday Books in 1996 (ISBN  ).
 Pearson Longman released the graded reader edition in 2001 (ISBN  ).
 The novel was published again in 2003 to coincide with the release of "Runaway Jury", a movie adaptation of the novel starring Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz.
 The third printing (ISBN  ) bears a movie-themed cover, in place of the covers used on the first and second printings.
Dexter's Final Cut is the seventh novel written by Jeff Lindsay, and the seventh book in the 'Dexter Morgan' book series about a serial killer who targets other serial killers.
 The book was released on September 17, 2013.
 Responding to the lack of alliteration on the title in comparison to the previous ones in the series, Lindsay has stated, "It's because this novel is very different than the previous, shockingly so..."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ( ; November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer.
 In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction.
 He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969).