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#1061 · January 28, 2024, 2:06 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1960, folklorist, anthropologist, and author (There Eyes were Watching God) Zora Neale Hurston died at St. Lucie County Welfare Home in St. Lucie, Florida of hypertensive heart disease, age 69. Garden of Heavenly Rest in Fort Pierce, Florida https://t.co/eCA8fWvbkg pic.twitter.com/e9bHKDlUpa

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#1062 · January 29, 2024, 2:01 pm

29 January 1930. The anti-war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues), by Erich Remarque, was published in Germany. It related the stress of German soldiers during WW1. It became an international best seller, but in 1933 it was banned by Hitler. pic.twitter.com/idgr4nJ10y

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) January 29, 2024

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#1063 · January 29, 2024, 2:02 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1933 lyric poet (Love Songs, ‘I Shall Not Care’) Sara Teasdale died from overdosing on sleeping pills in New York City, aged 48. Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis https://t.co/Lpr8t9dBKx pic.twitter.com/tqrFmEUCvO

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#1064 · January 29, 2024, 2:03 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1956, journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, the “Sage of Baltimore”, H. L. Mencken, died in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 75. Mencken Family Estate in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore https://t.co/Lpr8t9dBKx pic.twitter.com/hUjAJOwAD6

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#1065 · January 29, 2024, 2:03 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1963 poet (“The Road Not Taken”, North of Boston, New Hampshire) Robert Frost died in Boston from prostrate cancer surgery complications at the age of 88. Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont https://t.co/Lpr8t9dBKx pic.twitter.com/dBelriIln3

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#1066 · January 30, 2024, 2:01 pm

#RIP #OTD in 2006, author, activist, civil rights leader, wife of Martin Luther King Jr., the “First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement” Coretta Scott King died of complications from ovarian cancer in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, aged 78. MLK Center in Atlanta https://t.co/zkfHAF4GKr pic.twitter.com/w8k84RmO5x

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#1067 · January 31, 2024, 1:47 pm

31 January 1929. Legendary US author and journalist, Norman Mailer, was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA. His novels include: The Naked and the Dead, An American Dream, and The Executioner’s Song. His non-fiction work includes The Fight and Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery. pic.twitter.com/hwBRbn5fHr

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) January 31, 2024

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#1068 · January 31, 2024, 1:47 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1956 author, poet, (Winnie-the-Pooh) A. A. Milne died at his home in Hartfield, Sussex, England, aged 74. Cremation. Memorial plaque, Ashdown Forest https://t.co/uZPbs3BttN pic.twitter.com/GHltlEewVZ

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#1069 · February 1, 2024, 2:15 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1851, novelist (Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus), short story writer, dramatist, wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley died in Chester Square, London from a brain tumour, aged 53. St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth, England https://t.co/sU3suIQrDI pic.twitter.com/VPbzs280Y9

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#1070 · February 2, 2024, 2:01 pm

2 February 1882. James Joyce was born in Dublin. He’s regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. His best known novel is Ulysses, which chronicles a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin on 16 June 1904. pic.twitter.com/OKozujOUWO

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 2, 2024

2 February 1922. Ulysses by James Joyce was first published in full. The novel chronicles the appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, during the course of a single day: 16 June 1904. It’s regarded as one of the greatest novels. pic.twitter.com/5tx46Ygmsc

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 2, 2024

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#1071 · February 2, 2024, 2:03 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1972 playwright, poet (Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes), novelist, salon host who lived as an expatriate in Paris (Aventures de l'Esprit), Natalie Clifford Barney died of heart failure in Paris, aged 95. Passy Cemetery, Paris https://t.co/PhzWOllvL8 pic.twitter.com/xLiRzBFqGI

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#1072 · February 4, 2024, 3:09 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1970 poet (Body of This Death, Dark Summer, The Blue Estuaries, "Medusa"), the first woman appointed as the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress, Louise Bogan died in Greenwich Village, aged 72. Cremation https://t.co/XeqI4Kp9Od pic.twitter.com/HcufBljQlm

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#1073 · February 4, 2024, 3:09 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1995, novelist (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley) and short story writer Patricia Highsmith died from lung cancer at Carita hospital in Locarno, Switzerland, aged 74. Cremated remains inurned at Chiesa di Tegna, Tegna, Switzerland https://t.co/XeqI4Kp9Od pic.twitter.com/7KjSMlwhZ1

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#1074 · February 4, 2024, 3:10 pm

#RIP #OTD in 2006 feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan died of congestive heart failure at her home in Washington, D.C. on her 85th birthday. Sag Harbor Jewish Cemetery, Sag Harbor, New York https://t.co/XeqI4Kp9Od pic.twitter.com/6No3FG82jw

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#1075 · February 5, 2024, 1:52 pm

5 February 1881. Scottish born historian, Thomas Carlyle, died (aged 85). He wrote a definitive 3-volume history of the French Revolution. In his book, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History, he argued that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men”. pic.twitter.com/NCYlDliVpL

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 5, 2024

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#1076 · February 5, 2024, 1:52 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1941, poet (“Waltzing Matilda”, “The Man from Snowy River”, “Clancy of the Overflow”), journalist and author Banjo Paterson died of a heart attack in Sydney, aged 76. Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, Sydney https://t.co/FWCylz2KHh pic.twitter.com/SRFvFSJ3QH

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#1077 · February 5, 2024, 1:54 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1972 poet (O to be a Dragon), critic, translator, editor, suffrage movement activist, Marianne Moore died; New York City, aged 84. Cremated remains interred at the family's burial plot; Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania https://t.co/FWCylz2KHh pic.twitter.com/Ebtob3rQGQ

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#1078 · February 6, 2024, 1:58 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1916, “The Prince of Castillian Letters”, poet (Azul, Prosas Profanas y otros poemas, Cantos de vida y esperanza), Rubén Darío died aged 49, in León, Nicaragua. Catedral de la Asuncíon de María de León https://t.co/oOexFCuLx0 pic.twitter.com/66o6nH36DS

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#1079 · February 7, 2024, 1:26 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1823 English author and a pioneer of Gothic fiction (Romance of the Forest, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Italian) Ann Radcliffe died in London, aged 58. Chapel of Ease at St George's, Hanover Square, Mayfair, London https://t.co/u7NG2GsbPl pic.twitter.com/lR4Ha3GUu7

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#1080 · February 7, 2024, 1:27 pm

#RIP #OTD in 2001, writer, film star, singer-songwriter (“Happy Trails”), wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers, Dale Evans died of congestive heart failure at the age of 88 in Apple Valley, California. Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley, next to Roy https://t.co/u7NG2GsbPl pic.twitter.com/1c3xGEasi7

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