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#1581 · November 10, 2024, 1:56 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1891, poet (Une Saison en Enfer), Arthur Rimbaud died in Marseille, France at the age of 37 from bone cancer. Charleville-Mezieres Cimetière in Charleville-Mezieres, France. Priez pour lui thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/10/day
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#1582 · November 10, 2024, 1:57 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2001, novelist (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion), essayist, countercultural figure Ken Kesey died from complications of liver cancer in Eugene, Oregon, at age 66. Kesey Family Farm Cemetery near Eugene thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/10/day
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#1583 · November 10, 2024, 1:57 pm
10 November 2007. Award-winning novelist and non-fiction writer Norman Mailer died (aged 85). His novels include The Naked and the Dead, An American Dream, and The Executioner’s Song. His non-fiction includes The Fight and Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery.
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#1584 · November 12, 2024, 1:55 pm
12 November 1865. Elizabeth Gaskell died (aged 55). Her novels give a detailed portrait of Victorian slums and poverty. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Her other novels include: Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
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#1585 · November 12, 2024, 1:56 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2007 novelist (A Kiss Before Dying, Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, This Perfect Day, The Boys from Brazil, Sliver), playwright, songwriter Ira Levin died of a heart attack at his home in Manhattan aged 78. cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/12/day
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#1586 · November 13, 2024, 12:56 pm
#RIP #OTD 1952 writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown died in Nice, France from an embolism, aged 42. Cremated remains scattered at her island home, "The Only House," in Vinalhaven, Maine thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/13/day
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#1587 · November 14, 2024, 4:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1844 French-Peruvian writer and socialist activist who made important contributions to early feminist theory, Paul Gauguin’s grandmother, Flora Tristan died aged 41. Cimetière de la Chartreuse, Bordeaux, France thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/14/day
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#1588 · November 14, 2024, 4:48 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1915, educator, author, orator, advisor to presidents of the United States, Booker T. Washington died of kidney failure brought on by high blood pressure, in Tuskegee, Alabama, aged 59. Campus of Tuskegee University near the University Chapel thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/14/day
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#1589 · November 15, 2024, 1:17 pm
15 November 1917. Émile Durkheim died (aged 59). He was a key figure in the establishment of Sociology with his book, The Rules of Sociological Method, which became a standard work during his lifetime. He also wrote a seminal study on the causes of suicide.
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#1590 · November 16, 2024, 12:36 pm
16 November 1849. A Russian court sentenced writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for taking part in anti-government activities. On 22 December 1849, he was being prepared for execution by a firing squad when news came through he had been reprieved and sent into exile instead.
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#1591 · November 16, 2024, 12:37 pm
16 November 1928. The obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall for her crusading lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness, ended. Chartres Biron, the chief magistrate at Bow Street, ruled that the novel was an ‘obscene libel’ and ordered all copies in print to be destroyed.
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#1592 · November 17, 2024, 1:32 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1992 writer, professor, philosopher, poet, civil rights activist, self-described black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, Audre Lorde died of breast cancer in St. Croix aged 58. Cremated remains scattered in the Caribbean thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/17/day
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#1593 · November 17, 2024, 1:33 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2013 novelist (The Grass Is Singing, Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, Canopus in Argos: Archives) Doris Lessing died at her home in London, aged 94. Cremation Golders Green Crematorium thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/17/day
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#1594 · November 18, 2024, 1:14 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1909 poet (Cendres et Poussières, La Vénus des aveugles, A l'heure des mains jointes, Flambeaux éteints, Sillages, Dans un coin de violettes), "Muse of the Violets" Renée Vivien died in Paris from pneumonia, aged 32. Passy Cemetery, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/18/day
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#1595 · November 18, 2024, 1:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1922, novelist (À la recherche du temps perdu, In Search of Lost Time) Marcel Proust, died from pneumonia in Paris at the age of 51. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/18/day
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#1596 · November 18, 2024, 1:16 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1952 poet (Capitale de la douleur, L'Amour la Poésie, "Liberté") a founder of the Surrealist movement, Paul Éluard died from a heart attack at his home, in Charenton-le-Pont, Paris, aged 56. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/18/day
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#1597 · November 19, 2024, 2:13 pm
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#1598 · November 19, 2024, 2:13 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1887 author of poetry ("The New Colossus"), prose, and translations, activist Emma Lazarus died from Hodgkin's lymphoma in New York City, aged 38. Beth Olam Cemetery in Cypress Hills, Queens thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/19/day
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#1599 · November 19, 2024, 2:14 pm
#RIP #OTD in writer, women's rights & mental health activist, humanitarian, first lady of the US (1977 to 1981), as the wife of 39th POTUS Jimmy Carter, Rosalyn Carter died at her home in Plains, Georgia aged 96. Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, Plains thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/19/day
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#1600 · November 20, 2024, 1:51 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1910, writer (War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, "After The Ball") Leo Tolstoy, died in Astapovo, Russia, aged 82. The “Place of the Green Wand” in the Forest of the Old Order at Yasnaya Polyana thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/20/day
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