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#1521 · September 29, 2024, 1:58 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1902, writer (J'Accuse…!) Émile Zola died at his home in Paris of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by an improperly ventilated chimney at the age of 62. Panthéon in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/29/day
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#1522 · September 29, 2024, 1:59 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1964 author (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Café, Reflections in a Golden Eye) Carson McCullers died in Nyack, New York after a brain hemorrhage at the age of 50. Oak Hill Cemetery in Nyack thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/29/day
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#1523 · September 29, 2024, 2:00 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1973, poet ("Funeral Blues", The Age of Anxiety) W. H. Auden died in Vienna at the age of 66. Kirchstetten churchyard in Kirchstetten, Austria thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/29/day
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#1524 · October 1, 2024, 1:50 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1684 tragedian (El Cid, Horace), one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine, Pierre Corneille died at his home in Paris aged 78. Église Saint-Roch, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/01/day
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#1525 · October 2, 2024, 2:03 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2005 playwright (Fences, The Piano Lesson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone), August Wilson died from liver cancer at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle aged 60. Greenwood Cemetery, Pittsburgh thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/02/day
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#1526 · October 4, 2024, 1:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1974 poet (Live or Die) known for her highly personal, confessional verse, Anne Sexton died from carbon monoxide poisoning at her home in Weston, Massachusetts aged 45. Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory in Jamaica Plain, Boston thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/04/day
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#1527 · October 6, 2024, 1:53 pm
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#1528 · October 6, 2024, 1:53 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1979 Pulitzer poet (Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring; Questions of Travel), short-story writer, painter, Elizabeth Bishop died of a cerebral aneurysm in her apartment at Lewis Wharf, Boston aged 68. Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/06/day
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#1529 · October 7, 2024, 1:39 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1849, editor, literary critic, short story writer ("MS. Found in a Bottle"), poet ("The Raven", "Eldorado", "A Dream within a Dream", Annabel Lee"), Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore, Maryland, aged 40. Westminster Burial Ground in Baltimore thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/07/day
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#1530 · October 7, 2024, 1:39 pm
7 October 1943. Author and poet Radclyffe Hall died (aged 63). She’s best known for the novel, The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in Lesbian literature. She died of colon cancer, and is buried in Highgate Cemetery in North London.
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#1531 · October 8, 2024, 1:58 pm
8 October 1908. The classic children’s book The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame was published in the UK. It focuses on 4 animals: Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger, who live in a fictional version of Edwardian England.
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#1532 · October 8, 2024, 2:00 pm
8 October 1970. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His book The Gulag Archipelago challenged the Soviet state and sold millions of copies.
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#1533 · October 9, 2024, 1:52 pm
9 October 2004. French post-modern philosopher Jacques Derrida died (aged 74). He’s best known for his contribution to semiotic analysis, known as deconstruction, and was associated with post-structuralism, and postmodern philosophy.
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#1534 · October 11, 2024, 1:32 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1963, poet, novelist, designer, playwright, artist, filmmaker (La Belle et la Bête, Le sang d'un poète, Orphée) Jean Cocteau died; heart attack; his chateau in Milly-la-Forêt, France, aged 74. Chapelle Saint Blaise Des Simples, Milly-la-Forêt thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/11/247/
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#1535 · October 12, 2024, 1:15 pm
#RIP #OTD 1924, French poet, journalist, and novelist (Thaïs) Anatole France died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France at the age of 80. Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/12/day
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#1536 · October 12, 2024, 1:16 pm
12 October 1979. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams was published in the UK. It follows the last surviving man, Arthur Dent, after the destruction of the Earth, who is rescued by Ford Prefect, a human-like alien and then hitchhikes on a passing spacecraft.
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#1537 · October 14, 2024, 1:54 pm
14 October 1926. The children’s classic Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne was published. The author named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear that was owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, on whom the character, Christopher Robin, was based.
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#1538 · October 15, 2024, 1:46 pm
#RIP #OTD 1838 English poet, novelist (The Improvisatrice) better known by her initials L.E.L., Letitia Elizabeth Landon died from an overdose of prussic acid in Cape Coast Castle on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now Ghana), aged 36. Cape Coast Castle thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/15/day
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#1539 · October 16, 2024, 1:04 pm
16 October 1847. The classic novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte was published by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, under her male pseudonym, Currer Bell. It follows the life of the heroine and explores her relationship with Mr. Rochester, the brooding owner of Thornfield Hall.
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#1540 · October 16, 2024, 1:05 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1997, author (Tales of the South Pacific, Centennial, Caribbean), philanthropist James Michener died in Austin aged 90. Cremated remains Austin Memorial Park Cemetery in Austin thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/16/day
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