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#1421 · August 11, 2024, 2:24 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1937 novelist (The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome), short story writer, Pulitzer, Edith Wharton died; stroke; domaine Le Pavillon Colombe, her home in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, aged 75. Cimetière des Gonards, in Versailles thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/11/day
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#1422 · August 11, 2024, 2:28 pm
11 August 2018. Trinidadian novelist and travel writer V. S. Naipaul died (aged 85). He’s best known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his complex novels of the wider world, and his chronicles of his life and travels. His prose was widely admired.
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#1423 · August 12, 2024, 1:51 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1827, painter, poet (Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Four Zoas, Jerusalem, Milton), printmaker William Blake died at his home in Soho, London at the age of 69. Bunhill Fields, London thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/12/day
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#1424 · August 12, 2024, 1:52 pm
12 August 1880. Author and poet Radclyffe Hall was born in Bournemouth. She’s best known for the novel, The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature, which was deemed “obscene” during a court case and banned from sale.
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#1425 · August 12, 2024, 1:53 pm
12 August 1955. German novelist Thomas Mann died (aged 80). He won the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature and left Germany in 1933 when Hitler came to power. His most notable works are: Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, and Doctor Faustus.
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#1426 · August 12, 2024, 1:53 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1964, English author (James Bond 007 novels and stories), journalist and naval intelligence officer, Ian Fleming died at the age of 56 in Canterbury from a heart attack. Churchyard of Sevenhampton village, near Swindon thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/12/day
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#1427 · August 13, 2024, 2:18 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1934 writer (The Land of Little Rain, Taos Pueblo with photos by Ansel Adams) Mary Hunter Austin died in Santa Fe aged 65. Cremated remains Mount Pichaco, New Mexico thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/13/day
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#1428 · August 13, 2024, 2:18 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1946, writer (The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau), H. G. Wells died at his home at 13 Hanover Terrace, Regent’s Park, London, aged 79. Cremated remains scattered; English Channel at Old Harry Rocks near Swanage in Dorset thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/13/day
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#1429 · August 13, 2024, 2:18 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2004 chef, author (Mastering the Art of French Cooking), TV host (The French Chef) Julia Child died of kidney failure in Montecito, California, aged 91. Cremated remains Neptune Memorial Reef near Key Biscayne, Florida. Toujours bon appétit! thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/13/day
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#1430 · August 13, 2024, 2:19 pm
13 August 2012. American-born journalist, Helen Gurley Brown, died (aged 90). She was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years. She was an advocate of women’s sexual freedom and sought to provide women with role models in her magazine.
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#1431 · August 14, 2024, 2:03 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1956 playwright (The Threepenny Opera), lyricist ("Mack the Knife", "Pirate Jenny"), poet, Bertolt Brecht died of a heart attack in East Berlin, at the age of 58. Dorotheenstadt Cemetery on Chausseestraße in the Mitte neighbourhood of Berlin thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/14/day
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#1432 · August 14, 2024, 2:04 pm
14 August 1984. John Boynton (“JB”) Priestley died (aged 89). His Yorkshire roots were reflected in much of his writing, most notably, in his 1st successful novel, The Good Companions. He’s also credited with strengthening public morale during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
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#1433 · August 14, 2024, 10:29 pm
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#1434 · August 15, 2024, 1:53 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1936, writer (Dopo il divorzio, Canne al vento, La chiesa della solitudine) Nobel Prize recepient for Literature in 1926, Grazia Deledda died; breast cancer in Rome, aged 64. Chiesa Della Solitudine, Nuoro, Provincia di Nuoro, Sardegna, Italy thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/15/day
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#1435 · August 16, 2024, 2:01 pm
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#1436 · August 16, 2024, 2:03 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1949, author of Gone with the Wind (1936), Pulitzer Prize recipient, Margaret Mitchell died at Grady Hospital, Atlanta five days after being struck by a speeding car while crossing Peachtree Street, aged 48. Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/16/day
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#1437 · August 17, 2024, 2:07 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1942 novelist (David Golder, Le Bal, Le Vin de solitude, Suite française, Chaleur du sang) Irène Némirovsky died of typhus in Auschwitz at the age of 39 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/17/day
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#1438 · August 17, 2024, 2:08 pm
17 August 1945. Animal Farm by George Orwell was published in the UK. According to Orwell, this allegorical novel reflected events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917, and then the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.
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#1439 · August 17, 2024, 2:09 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1973 writer of novels, short stories (Silent Snow, Secret Snow), poet, Pulitzer Prize recipient (Selected Poems), Poet Laureate, Conrad Aiken died in Savannah, Georgia at the age of 84. Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/17/day
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#1440 · August 18, 2024, 1:55 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1850 novelist (La Comédie humaine) and playwright Honoré de Balzac died in Paris at the age of 51. Cimetière du Père Lachaise in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/18/day
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