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#1481 · September 12, 2024, 1:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1977, poet (Lord Weary's Castle, Life Studies), 2x Pulitzer Prize recipient, Robert Lowell died having suffered a heart attack in a cab in New York City at the age of 60. Stark Cemetery, Dunbarton, New Hampshire thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/12/day
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#1482 · September 12, 2024, 1:48 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2008 novelist (Infinite Jest, The Pale King), short story writer, essayist, and university professor David Foster Wallace died by suicide at his home in Claremont, California aged 46. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/12/day
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#1483 · September 13, 2024, 1:58 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1592 essayist, influential writer of the French Renaissance, the father of Modern Skepticism, Michel de Montaigne died at his family estate Château de Montaigne, age 59. Musée Aquitaine, Université Bordeaux thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/13/day
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#1484 · September 13, 2024, 1:59 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1928 businessman, novelist (La coscienza di Zeno), playwright, short story writer, Italo Vevo died from injuries sustained in a car crash in a hospital in Motta di Livenza, Italy aged 66. Cimitero Sant'Anna, Trieste, Italy thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/13/day
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#1485 · September 14, 2024, 1:53 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1321, poet (Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy)) Dante Alighieri died in Ravenna, Italy at the age of about 56. Basilica di San Francesco, Ravenna thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/14/day
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#1486 · September 14, 2024, 1:54 pm
14 September 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem, Star-Spangled Banner. Set to music, it became the official US National Anthem on 3 March 1931.
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#1487 · September 14, 2024, 1:54 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1851, writer (The Last of the Mohicans) James Fenimore Cooper died the day before his 62nd birthday in Cooperstown, New York. Christ Episcopal Churchyard, Cooperstown thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/14/day
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#1488 · September 15, 2024, 2:12 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1938, novelist (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River; You Can’t Go Home Again) Thomas Wolfe died from miliary tuberculosis of the brain at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, aged 37. Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/15/day
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#1489 · September 15, 2024, 2:13 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1989, poet, novelist (All the King's Men, World Enough and Time), and literary critic, Robert Penn Warren died at the age of 84 in Stratton, Vermont of complications from bone cancer. Willis Cemetery in Stratton thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/15/day
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#1490 · September 16, 2024, 1:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2016, playwright (The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, Three Tall Women) Edward Albee died at his home in Montauk, New York at the age of 88. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/16/day
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#1491 · September 17, 2024, 1:51 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1771, Scottish poet and author (The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker) Tobias Smollett died in Livorno, Italy at the age of 50. English Cimitero in Livorno thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/17/day
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#1492 · September 17, 2024, 1:52 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1863, poet (La Mort du loup, La Maison du berger, L’Esprit pur), playwright, and novelist Alfred de Vigny died in Paris at the age of 66. Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/17/day
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#1493 · September 17, 2024, 1:53 pm
‘What are we? Humans? Or Animals?’ Today marks seventy years to the day since Lord of the Flies first published, on 17 September 1954. Follow along as we celebrate William Golding's iconic novel.
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#1494 · September 17, 2024, 1:54 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2019 journalist, author, political reporter and analyst, one of NPR's "Founding Mothers", Cokie Roberts died from breast cancer in Washington D.C. aged 75. Congressional Cemetery Washington D.C. thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/17/day
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#1495 · September 18, 2024, 1:50 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1179, Benedictine abbess and polymath, (writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, medical writer/practitioner), Hildegard of Bingen died in Bingen am Rhein, Holy Roman Empire (Germany). Abtei St. Hildegard, Eibingen, Germany thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/17/day
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#1496 · September 18, 2024, 1:51 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1980, journalist, essayist, author (Ship of Fools; Pale Horse, Pale Rider), poet, Pulitzer Prize recipient, Katherine Anne Porter died in Silver Spring, Maryland, aged 90. Cremated remains Indian Creek Cemetery in Indian Creek, Texas thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/18/day
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#1497 · September 19, 2024, 1:21 pm
9 September 2015. Jackie Collins died (aged 77). She wrote 32 novels, with the sexual aspect of relationships to the forefront. All her novels appeared on The New York Times bestsellers list, selling over 500 million, and translated into 40 languages. Her sister is Joan Collins.
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#1498 · September 20, 2024, 2:17 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1863 author, linguist, philologist, jurist, folklorist, older brother of Wilhelm Grimm (Brothers Grimm literary duo) Jacob Grimm died in Berlin aged 78. Alter Sankt-Matthäus-Kirchhof, Schöneberg, Berlin thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/20/468
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#1499 · September 21, 2024, 2:20 pm
#RIP #OTD in 19 BC, ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period (Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid), Virgil died in Brundisium harbor at the age of 50. Virgil’s tomb in Piedigrotta, Naples thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/21/day
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#1500 · September 21, 2024, 2:22 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1832 novelist, playwright and poet, (Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Bride of Lammermoor, The Lady of the Lake) Sir Walter Scott died at his home Abbotsford House near Melrose in the Scottish borders, age 61. Dryburgh Abbery ruins in Melrose thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/21/day
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