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#1601 · November 22, 2024, 1:10 pm
22 November 1963. Aldous Huxley died (aged 69). He’s best known for the dystopian novel Brave New World. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 7 times, but never won.
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#1602 · November 22, 2024, 1:11 pm
22 November 1963: Author and academic Clive Staples (“CS”) Lewis died. (aged 64). He’s best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy.
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#1603 · November 23, 2024, 1:10 pm
23 November 1644. John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet opposing censorship. It’s regarded as one of the most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression.
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#1604 · November 23, 2024, 1:14 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1976, adventurer, author (La Condition Humaine, Les Voix du Silence) and statesman, André Malraux, died in Créteil, near Paris at the age of 75. Cremated remains in the Panthéon in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/23/day
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#1605 · November 23, 2024, 1:16 pm
23 November 1990. Welsh-born writer Roald Dahl died (aged 74). His often macabre books aimed at children include, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The BFG. His books have sold over 250 million copies worldwide.
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#1606 · November 24, 2024, 1:08 pm
24 November 2004. Arthur Hailey died (aged 84). His meticulously researched novels, include such best sellers as: Hotel, Airport, Wheels, The Moneychangers and Overload. His books have sold over 170 million copies in 38 different languages.
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#1607 · November 24, 2024, 10:42 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1990, novelist (I Capture the Castle, The Hundred and One Dalmatians), playwright, Dodie Smith died in Uttlesford, north Essex, England aged 94. cremated remains scattered to the wind thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/24/day
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#1608 · November 25, 2024, 2:05 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1763, author (Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, the basis of operas by Massenet and Puccini) Abbé Prévost died at the age of 66 in Chantilly, France. Final resting place in Chantilly thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/25/day
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#1609 · November 25, 2024, 2:06 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1968, writer (The Jungle, Oil!) Upton Sinclair died in a nursing home in Bound Brook, New Jersey at the age of 90. Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/25/day
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#1610 · November 27, 2024, 1:55 pm
#RIP #OTD in 8 BC, Roman lyric poet (Odes), Horace died in Rome at the age of 56. Drawing of Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/27/day
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#1611 · November 27, 2024, 1:57 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1852 mathematician and writer, the first computer programmer, daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace died of uterine cancer, aged 36. Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, England next to her father thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/27/day
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#1612 · November 27, 2024, 1:58 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1895, author and dramatist (La Dame aux camélias), the son of Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas, fils died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, at the age of 71. Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/27/day
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#1613 · November 27, 2024, 2:01 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1953, playwright (Long Day's Journey into Night, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh), Eugene O’Neill, died in a Sheraton Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, aged 65. Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/27/day
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#1614 · November 27, 2024, 2:02 pm
27 November 2014 Phyllis Dorothy (“PD”) James, the acclaimed British crime writer, died (aged 94). Her crime novels sold millions of copies around the world with many were made into TV dramas.
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#1615 · November 28, 2024, 2:12 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1859, short story writer (“Rip Van Winkle”, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”), essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat Washington Irving died of a heart attack in his home at Sunnyside, New York at the age of 76. Sleepy Hollow cemetery thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/28/day
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#1616 · November 28, 2024, 2:12 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1960, author of novels (Native Son), short stories, poems, and non-fiction, Richard Wright died in Paris from a heart attack at the age of 52. Cimetière du Père Lachaise in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/28/day
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#1617 · November 28, 2024, 2:13 pm
28 November 1968. Children’s author Enid Blyton died (aged 71). Her books including, Noddy and The Famous Five, have been translated into 90 languages, and have sold over 600 million copies.
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#1618 · November 30, 2024, 1:13 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1900 novelist (The Picture of Dorian Gray), playwright (The Importance of Being Earnest), poet (The Ballad of Reading Gaol), aesthete, Oscar Wilde died; meningitis in Hôtel d'Alsace (now L'Hôtel), Paris, aged 46. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris theloverschronicle.com/2024/11/30/the
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#1619 · November 30, 2024, 1:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1935 poet (Antinous, 35 Sonnets, "Oblique Rain", "Mar Português"), writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher Fernando Pessoa died at the Hospital de São Luís in Lisbon, aged 47. Monastery of Jeronimos, Lisbon thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/30/day
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#1620 · November 30, 2024, 1:21 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1967, poet (Raglan Road, The Great Hunger) and novelist (Tarry Flynn) Patrick Kavanagh died at the age of 63 in a Dublin nursing home. Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland, adjoining the Patrick Kavanagh Centre thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/30/day
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