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JANUARY 21st - Italian writer Vincenzo Consolo died aged 79. He was awarded the 1992 Strega Prize for his novel Nottetempo, casa per casa. 15th - Italian writer Carlo Fruttero died aged 85, he was best known for his joint work with Franco Lucentini, especially as authors of crime novels. 12th - English crime writer Reginald Hill died aged 75, he was best known for writing over 20 novels

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Death: 21st January 1872 Location: Hietzinger Friedhof, Vienna, Austria Photo taken by:   DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Franz Grillparzer Austrian dramatist and poet. He is considered to be the greatest Austrian playwright of the nineteenth century, although outside of Austria readers are familiar with Grillparzer via references to him in the popular John Irving novel The World According To

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Death:  18th January 1873 Cause of death: An infection caused by an abscess in his ear. Location: Westminster Abbey, London, England. Photo taken by:  DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Edward Bulwer-Lytton English novelist and playwright. Studied at Cambridge and was forced to start writing seriously to support himself when his mother withdrew his allowance in opposition to his marriage to

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Death: 18th January 1989 Location: Agios Nikolaos (St. Nicholas), Chora, Kardamyli, Messenia, Greece Cause of death: HIV/AIDS Buy books by Bruce Chatwin British novelist and travel writer. He was born in Sheffield and went to work at Sotheby's in 1958; he eventually became a director of the company. In 1966 he resigned from Sotheby's and enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to study

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Death: 14th January 1977 Location: Cremated, ashes scattered over Santa Monica Bay in Mermaid Cove.Cause of death: Cancer Buy books by Anaïs Nin French-Cuban author who is best known for her journals and erotic literature. Her journals, which span several decades, provide a deeply explorative insight into her personal life and relationships.  Nin was acquainted, often quite intimately,

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Death: 11th January 2007 Location: Cremated, ashes scattered off the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz, California, United StatesCause of death: Post-polio syndrome Photo taken by:  Matt314 Buy books by Robert Anton Wilson American author, novelist and polymath who is best remembered as the co-author (with Robert Shea) of the cult classic series The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975). The

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Death: 10th January 2007 Location: Papil, West Burra, Shetland Islands, ScotlandCause of death: Suicide - Exsanguination Buy books by Harry Horse Author, illustrator and political cartoonist who was best known for his books The Last Polar Bears (1993), which was made into a 30-minute cartoon, and The Last Castaways (2003), which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. On January 10, 2007,

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Death:  7th January 2006 Location:  Hüttenberg Friedhof, Huttenberg, Austria Buy books by Heinrich Harrer Austrian mountaineer and author, best remembered for his book Seven Years in Tibet which was filmed in 1997 staring Brad Pitt.  Harrer studied at the University in Graz. He was a keen sportsman and was due to participate in the 1936 Winter Olympics, but the Austrian Alpine ski team

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Death: 7th January 1967 Location: Roosevelt Memorial Park, Trevose, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United StatesCause of death: Stroke Buy books by David Goodis American noir fiction writer. He wrote for various pulp magazines under several pseudonyms. His big break came when his second novel Dark Passage(1946) was filmed for Warner Bros. with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.  Goodis

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Death: 4th January 1947 Location: Dundonald Cemetery, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Section C5, Grave 481 Buy books by Forrest Reid Northern Irish novelist, literary critic and translator; best known for his romantic and mystical novels about boyhood and adolescence and for a notable autobiography, Apostate (1926). His novel Young Tom received the 1944 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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Death: 4th January 1965 Location: Cremated, ashes taken to St Michael's Church, East Coker, the village from which his ancestors had emigrated to America. A wall plaque commemorates him with a quotation from his poem "East Coker": "In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning."Cause of Death: EmphysemaPhoto taken by: Clive and Chris Buy books by T. S. Eliot Playwright, literary

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Death: 3rd February 1997 Location: Cemetery, Hradištko, Central Bohemian Region, Czech RepublicCause of death: Accidental – Fall from a fifth floor window whilst feeding pigeons.Photo taken by: Mohylek Buy books by Bohumil Hrabal Czech writer, who along with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek and Milan Kundera is considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century.   Hrabal began

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Death: 2nd January 1971 Location: St. John at Hampstead, London, England. Plot: Churchyard Extension (Q91) Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by E. V. Knox British poet and satirist who wrote under the pseudonym Evoe. He was editor of Punch (1932-1949). He was brother of Catholic priest and author Ronald Knox, codebreaker Dilly Knox, and Anglican monk and scholar Wilfred Knox.

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Death: 26th December 1800 Location: Church of St Peter and St Andrew, Old Windsor, Berkshire, England. Photos taken by: Daniel Robinson Buy books by Mary Robinson English actress, poet and novelist who was known during her lifetime as the English Sappho. She is also remembered for being the first public mistress of George IV. Born Mary Darby in Bristol to a sea captain, John Darby and

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Death: 18th December 2011 Location: Cremated, ashes were placed in the family tomb in the Vinohrady Cemetery, Prague, Czech Republic. Cause of Death:  Respiratory Issues  Buy books by Václav Havel Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Havel was the ninth and last president of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992) and the first president of the Czech Republic (1993-2003).

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Death: 14th December 2011 Cause of death: Stroke Location: Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France George Whitman was the American born proprietor of the famous English-language bookstore, Shakespeare & Company, on the Left Bank in Paris.  Whitman founded his bookstore in 1951. It was originally called La Mistral, after the Chilean poet Gabriella Mistral, whose work Whitman admired, but the

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DECEMBER 18th - Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician Václav Havel died aged 75. He was the ninth and last president of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992) and the first president of the Czech Republic (1993-2003). 14th – George Whitman, the American born proprietor of the Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris, died aged 98, after suffering a stroke two months ago. 13th

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Death:  3rd December 1894Cause of death: Cerebral HaemorrhageLocation: Villa Vailima, Upolou, SamoaPhoto taken by:  anna_t Buy books by Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish novelist, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island , Kidnapped , and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.  Born in Edinburgh into the famous family of inventors and lighthouse keepers from

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Death: 30th November 1987 Location: Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA. Plot: Hillcrest A, Grave 1203 Cause of death: Cancer – stomach Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by James Baldwin. American novelist and short story writer whose work often deals with sexual and racial issues in the US during the middle of the 20th century. From 1948 he

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Death: 25th November 1985Location: Christ Church, Broad Town, Wiltshire, EnglandPhoto taken by: Clive and Chris Buy books by Geoffrey Grigson British poet, born in Cornwall. He first became known in the 1930’s for his poetry and then he became known as a critic and reviewer and compiler of anthologies.   He published 13 collections of poetry, and wrote on travel, on art, and on the English

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Death: 23rd November 1990 Location: St. Peter and St. Paul Church, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England. Cause of death: Myelodysplastic syndrome Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Roald Dahl. British novelist and short story writer for children and adults. Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, and educated in English boarding-schools. In search of adventure after leaving school he

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Death: 21st November 2011 Location: Kilquade New Cemetery, Wicklow, IrelandCause of death: Stroke Buy books by Anne McCaffrey American-born Irish writer of science fiction. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award. In 2005 The Science Fiction Writers of America named her the 22nd Grand Master. She was inducted into The Science Fiction Hall of Fame in

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Death: 9th November 1953Cause of death: PneumoniaLocation: Saint Martin's Churchyard, Laugharne, WalesPhoto taken by:  Ceridwen Attwood Buy books by Dylan Thomas Welsh poet and writer. His work is intensely personal and lyrical and he is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century to write in English. He was married in 1937 to Caitlin Macnamara with whom he had

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Death: 26th October 1890 Location: Cimitero Monumentale Delle Porte Sante, San Miniato al Monte Basilica, Florence, Italy Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Carlo Collodi Italian journalist who is best known as the creator of the world-renowned fairy tale The Adventures of Pinocchio. In 1880 he began writing Storia di un burattino / The story of a marionette, also called Le

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Death: 8th October 1896 Cause of death: Heart failure Location: St. John at Hampstead, London, England. Plot: Churchyard extension (I Bay) Photos taken by:  DeadGoodBooks Buy books by George du Maurier French-born British cartoonist and author, best known for his cartoons in Punch and his novel Trilby. He joined the staff at Punch in 1865, drawing two cartoons a week. His most common

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Death: 8th October 1754 Cause of death: Jaundice and Gout Location: English Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal Buy books by Henry Fielding English novelist. He was born in Somerset and had a younger sister, Sarah Fielding, who also became a novelist. He moved to London and began writing satires for theatre whilst having a career in law. His first successful novel was Shamela, a parody of Pamela by

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Death: 7th October 1943 Location: Highgate Cemetery (West), London, England. Cause of death: Cancer - Colon Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Radclyffe Hall. English novelist, best known for The Well of Loneliness. Her father, Radclyffe Radclyffe Hall, left her mother before John, as Radclyffe Hall preferred to be known, was born. Aged twenty-one Hall was left money by her

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Death: 25th September 1919Location: St Johns at Hampstead, London, England. Plot: Churchyard extension (G102) Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Ernest Radford Ernest Radford was an English poet, critic and socialist. He was a follower of William Morris, and one of the organisers in the Arts and Crafts Movement. He married Caroline Maitland in 1883, generally known as Dollie

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Death: 23rd September 1889 Location: Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England (Grave Number 31754, Square 141, Row 1) Cause of death:  Complications following a Stroke. Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Wilkie Collins. English sensation novelist. Born William Wilkie Collins in London, he left school aged seventeen but failed to make a career at the tea-merchants to which he was

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Death: Jacob - 20th September 1863 and Wilhelm - 16th December 1859 Location: St Matthäus Kirchhof, Berlin, Germany Buy books by the Brothers Grimm. German linguistic professors who are best known as the publishers of folk and fairy tales. After both studying law at University they traveled widely throughout Europe carrying out linguistic research into how pronunciation of words changed over

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Death: 5th September 1803 Cause of death: Dysentery and malaria Location: Body lost / destroyed Buy books by Choderlos de Laclos French army general who is remembered for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The novel is considered a classic for its depiction of seduction and revenge and has been adapted to film several times, most famously as Dangerous Liaisons in 1988. 

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 Death: 3rd September 1962 Location: Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA Cause of death: Stroke Photo taken by: dead-trek.com Buy books by E.E. Cummings. American poet who is best remembered for the unconventional layout, punctuation and capitalisation of his work. Cummings produced two novels and several plays as well as over nine hundred poems. He studied

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Death: Arthur - 19th April 1907; Sylvia - 27 August 1910 Cause of death: Cancer Location:  St. John at Hampstead, London, England.  Plot:  Churchyard extension (J2) Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies are best remembered for being the parents of the boys who served as the inspiration for Peter Pan and the other children of J. M. Barrie's stories of Neverland.

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Death: 26th August 1979 Location: Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki, Finland Photo taken by:  jlz Buy books by Mika Waltari Finnish writer who is best known for his best-selling historical novel Sinuhe egyptiläinen / The Egyptian (1945).   Its theme of the corruption of humanist values in a materialist world seemed curiously topical in the aftermath of World War II, and the book became

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Death: 12th August 1964 Location: Saint Andrew's Churchyard, Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, England Cause of death: Heart Attack Photo taken by: Clive and Chris Buy books by Ian Fleming. English author and journalist who is best remembered as the creator of James Bond. Fleming was born in Mayfair, London, and his education focused on preparing him for a career in the Foreign Office. Unfortunately

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Death: 23rd July 1957 Location: Cimitero dei Cappuccini, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Cause of Death: Cancer - Lung Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Italian author who is best remembered for his only novel Il Gattopardo which is set in Sicily during the Risorgimento; it was published posthumously in 1958. He was born in Palermo into one of the oldest families

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Death: 22nd July 1932 Location: Saint John the Baptist Church, Burford, Oxfordshire, England Photo taken by: Clive and Chris Buy books by John Meade Falkner English novelist; best known for his story Moonfleet. He was born in Wiltshire, England and was educated at Marlborough College, Oxford. After leaving Oxford he had a career with the Armstrong Whitworth armaments company and wrote in his

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JULY 2011 1st - Polish writer and journalist Tadeusz Borowski died 60 years ago and influential French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline died 50 years ago.2nd - American Nobel Prize winning novelist Ernest Hemingway died 50 years ago. 4th - 18th-century English writer Samuel Richardson died 250 years ago. 7th - Irish dramatist and author of A School for Scandal Richard Brinsley Sheridan died 195

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 Death: 29th June 1928Location: St Johns at Hampstead, London, England. Plot: Churchyard extension (K32)Photos taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Richard Whiteing English author and journalist. His first novel The Democracy (1876) was published under the pseudonym of Whyte Thorne. His second novel The Island (1888) was about a utopian life on Pitcairn Island; it attracted little attention

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Death: 26th June 1957 Location: Saint John the Baptist, Ripe, East Sussex, England Cause of death: Death by misadventure. Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Malcolm Lowry. English novelist. Born in Cheshire he was the son of a wealthy Liverpool merchant. He left school to work as a deckhand on a steamer, travelling overseas, before returning to the UK to study at St Catherine's

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Death: 19th June 1937 Cause of death: Pneumonia Location: Kirriemuir Cemetery, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland Photo taken by: Barrie Caveman Buy books by J.M. Barrie Scottish novelist and dramatist. Best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He studied at Edinburgh University and after completing his education he became a journalist and moved to London. He married the actress Mary Ansell, but

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Death: 18th June 1835 Location: St Andrew's Parish Church, Farnham, Surrey, EnglandPhoto taken by:  Jon and Sarah Farley Buy books by William Cobbett William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, who believed that parliamentary reform would help to end the poverty of farm labourers. He wrote many polemics, on subjects from political reform to religion, but is best known

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Palacete los Moreau Death:  16th June 2005 Location: Palacete los Moreau, Moca, Puerto Rico Photo taken by: Jmundo Puerto Rican novelist and playwright. He attended the University of Puerto Rico and after obtaining his degree he worked as a teacher from 1924 to 1988. He was put forward for the Nobel Prize in Literature but did not receive the award. His ashes were interred in a mausoleum at

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 JUNE 20116th – Nobel Prize winning German dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann died 65 years ago. 8th – French novelist George Sand died 135 years ago. 14th – Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges died 25 years ago and  G. K. Chesterton the creator of Father Brown died 75 years ago. 17th – South African crime novelist James McClure died 5 years ago. 18th – English novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson died 30

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Death: 5th June 1910 Location: Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA Cause of death: Cirrhosis of the liver Photo taken by: Jẹr Buy books by O.Henry. American author of short stories which have surprise endings; the best known of which is The Gift of the Magi. The O. Henry Awards are given annually to outstanding short stories. He was born William Sydney Porter in

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Death:  27th June 2001 Location: Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki, Finland Photo taken by:  Joonas J. Buy books by Tove Jansson Finish novelist, best remembered for her series of Moomin books – stories for children that involve a family of trolls who are white, round and furry in appearance, with large snouts that make them vaguely resemble hippopotamuses. She was born in Helsinki into

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Death:  22nd May 1873 Location: Cimitero Monumentale, Milan, Italy Cause of death:  Cerebral MeningitisPhoto taken by:  DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Alessandro Manzoni Italian poet and novelist. Born in Milan, he struggled at school but at age fifteen he discovered an aptitude for poetry. In 1819 he published the tragedy, Il Conte di Carmagnola, which was subject to controversy as Manzoni had

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Death: 7th June 1967 Location: Memorial Garden, NAACP Headquarters, Baltimore, Maryland, United StatesCause of death: Heart AttackPhotos taken by: Stunt Cat Buy books by Dorothy Parker American poet, journalist and satirist, best known for her sharp wit. Born Dorothy Rothschild in New Jersey, her mother died shortly before Dorothy turned five. Her father remarried, but Parker detested her

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Death: 15th May 1886 Location: West Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States Cause of death: Kidney disease - Bright's disease, now called chronic nephritis. Photo taken by: dead-trek.com Buy books by Emily Dickinson American poet who although virtually unknown during her lifetime is now considered to be one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth

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Death: 14th May 1925 Location: St Mary's Church, Ditchingham, Norfolk. Photo taken by: Clive and Chris Buy books by H. Rider Haggard English writer of adventure novels. He was born, the eighth of ten children, in Norfolk and studied at Ipswich Grammar School. His father sent him to Africa to work as an assistant to the secretary of the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal. He made a career for

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Death: 13th May 1997 Location: Church of the Holy Trinity, Slad, Gloustershire, England Photo taken by: Clive and Chris Buy books by Laurie Lee English poet and novelist who is best remembered for his autobiographical trilogy consisting of Cider With Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War. He left school at the age of fifteen to become an errand boy and then worked as

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Death:  12th May 1970Cause of Death:  Intestinal CancerLocation: Judiska Norra Begravningsplatsen (The Northern Cemetery), Solna, Stockholm, SwedenPhoto taken by:  Raphael Saulus Buy books by Nelly Sachs German born Jewish poet and dramatist. Awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature (jointly with Shmuel Yosef Agnon) for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's

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Death: 9th May 1993 Location: Asolo Cemetery, Asolo, Veneto, Italy Photo taken by: brilliantvastworld Buy books by Freya Stark. British travel writer who wrote over two dozen books about her experiences. She was famous in her own lifetime for her travels in the Middle East. She was one of the first Western women to travel through the Arabian deserts and she often travelled solo into areas

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Death: 6th May 1919 Location: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA Cause of death: Stroke Photo taken by: giddygirlie Buy books by L. Frank Baum. American author who is best remembered as the creator of  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, one of the most successful children’s books ever written.Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, the seventh of nine children.

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Death: 28th April 2000 Location: St. John at Hampstead, Hampstead, London, England. Plot: Churchyard Extension (Q91) Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Penelope Fitzgerald English Biographer, Poet and Novelist. After graduating from Oxford she worked at the BBC during the war and then had various jobs including running a bookshop and teaching. She started her writing career

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Death: 26th April 1910Location: Vår Frelsers Gravlund, Oslo, NorwayPhoto taken by: JonasLB Buy books by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Norwegian author. Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit.After leaving university in 1852 he

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Death:  25th April 1800 Location: Saint Nicholas Church, Dereham, Norfolk, England Cause of death: Oedema Photo taken by: julia and keld Buy books by William Cowper. English poet. His first verses were published in a volume of hymns in 1779. The collection, Olney Hymns, contains some of Cowper’s best known work, including Light Shining out of Darkness which gave the English language the

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Death: 24th April 1731 Location: Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London, England Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Daniel Defoe English writer who is considered to be one of the earliest novelists and is best remembered for Robinson Crusoe. He was born Daniel Foe (he added the ‘De’ to his surname at a later date) and he was educated in Stoke Newington. After he finished his education he

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Death: 23rd April 1936 Cause of Death: Tuberculosis Location: Panteón Nacional/National Pantheon, Caracas, Venezuela Buy books by Teresa de la Parra Venezuelan novelist. She was born into a wealthy family and her father was the Venezuelan Ambassador in Berlin. When her father died she was sent to study in Spain and she returned to Venezuela when she was nineteen. She spent many hours reading

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Death: 16th April 1689Location: Westminster Abbey, London, England.Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Aphra Behn. Restoration novelist and playwright. Credited with being the first professional English female novelist. The exact details of her life are unknown, but is believed that she travelled to an English sugar colony in Suriname in the 1660s and that this trip was this

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Death: 11th April 1987 Location: Cimitero Monumentale di Torino, Turin, Piemonte, Italy Cause of death: Suicide - fall Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Primo Levi. Italian chemist and author of memoirs, poems, and novels. In 1941 he graduated from the University of Turin with a degree in chemistry. He joined the Italian anti-Fascist resistance in 1943 but was arrested and sent to

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Death: 8th April 1931 Location: Folkärna kyrkogård, Avesta, Dalarnas Lan, Sweden Buy books by Erik Axel Karlfeldt Swedish poet. Posthumously awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature after having refused the honour in 1918 due to his position as a secretary of the Nobel Committee, and because of the high proportion of Swedish writers who had already received the award.

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Death:  5th April 2005Location:  Morningside Cemetery, Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, United States Buy books by Saul Bellow Canadian born American-Jewish writer. Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.  He was awarded the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt's Gift. He won The National

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Death: 2nd April 1914 Location: Waldfriedhof, Munich, Germany Buy books by Paul von Heyse German writer and translator, he wrote novels, poetry, short stories, and about sixty dramas. Awarded the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and

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Death: 1st April 1966Cause of Death: Cancer Location: Deansgrange Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland. Plot: 20–A–West. Buy books by Flann O'Brien Irish author. Attended University College Dublin where he wrote for the student magazine. He worked for the civil service, and under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien he published novels, heavily influenced by James Joyce, which attracted a large following due to

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Death:  31st March 1981Location:  St. Margaret's Church, Rottingdean, East Sussex, England. Photo taken by:  DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Enid Bagnold British author and playwright. Daughter of an officer in the Royal Engineers who was educated in both England and Switzerland after spending time as a child in Jamaica. When war broke out in 1914 she joined the Voluntary Aid detachment and served as

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Death: 28th March 1994 Location: Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France Photo taken by: Wayne Buy books by Eugène Ionesco Romanian born playwright who, along with Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov, was one of the defining playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd.Most of his works were written in French, but he is one of Romania’s most renowned writers. His father was Romanian and

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Death: 25th March 1914 Location: Maillane Cemetery, Maillane, Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur, France Photo taken by: Dominique Pipet Buy books by Frédéric Mistral. French poet. Awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature (jointly with José Echegaray) in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit

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  Death: 24th March 1882 Location: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County,Massachusetts, United States Cause of death: Peritonitis Photo taken by: dead-trek.com Buy books by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. American poet born in Portland, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College in Brunswick; where he met his lifelong friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow became a professor of

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Death: 23rd April 1616 Location: Convento de las Trinitarias, Madrid, Spain Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Miguel de Cervantes. Spanish writer. Author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel and one of the greatest works in Western literature. Cervantes was the third child of Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon, in those days an ill-paid

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Death:  18th March 1996Location:  First Cemetery, Athens, Greece Buy books by Odysseas Elytis Greek poet, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness. He was born on the island of Crete but his family moved to

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Death: 16th March 1940 Location: Östra Amtervik kyrkogård, Östra Amtervik, Sweden Cause of death: Cerebral Hemorrhage Buy books by Selma Lagerlöf Swedish author. Awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings. She was the first woman to receive the award. At the start of World War II,

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Death: 15th March 1937 Location: Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA Cause of death: Cancer - intestine Photo taken by: dead-trek.com Buy books by H.P. Lovecraft. American author of horror, science fiction and fantasy whose work has become influential among authors and readers of modern horror fiction. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island and was a child

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Death: 4th August 1875 Location: Assistens Kirkegården, Copenhagen, Denmark Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by Hans Christian Andersen. Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. His passion for literature was evident at an early age; he would put on performances of plays by Shakespeare using his toy theatre. He had to start work aged eleven, when his father died, and had

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Death: March 1945. Location: Mass grave at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany. Cause of death: Typhus Photo Taken by: Arne List Buy books by Anne Frank. German born Jewish girl, remembered around the world for her diary which she wrote whilst in hiding in Amsterdam during the German occupation. She was born in Frankfurt, but her family moved to Amsterdam when the Nazis

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Death: 1st March 1938 Location: Vittoriale degli italiani, Gardone Riviera, Lombardy, Italy. Cause of death: Stroke Photo taken by: suzigun Buy books by Gabriele d'Annunzio. Italian poet, journalist, novelist and dramatist. He is a controversial figure due to his influence on the Italian Fascist movement and his strong influence on the ideology of Benito Mussolini; although he never became

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George Death: 1st March 1912 Location: Kensel Green Cemetery, London, England Weedon  Death: 14th June 1919 Location: Unknown English brothers who are best known for their collaboration on the novel The Diary of a Nobody. George, an actor who worked with Gilbert and Sullivan, wrote the novel, while Weedon, an artist and sometime actor, illustrated it.The Diary of a Nobody

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Death:  24th February 2006Cause of death: Accident – Fall Location: Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, Los Angeles County, California, United States Buy books by Octavia E. Butler African-American Sci-fi author. Considered to be the first black women to gain national recognition as a writer of science fiction. Butler was born in California and began writing science fiction at an early age

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Death: 21st February 2005 Location: Cremated Cause of death: Septicaemia Buy books by Guillermo Cabrera Infante Cuban novelist, who despite initially supporting the Castro regime went into exile in London. He had intended to become a physician, but he decided to concentrate on writing and went to the University of Havana in 1950 to study journalism.  After University he worked as a

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Death:  11th February 1978Cause of death: Seppuku with a pair of scissors Location: Silverdals griftegård, Sollentuna, Stockholms Lan, Sweeden Photo taken by: Kotoviski Buy books by Harry Martinson Swedish author and poet. Joint winner (along with Eyvind Johnson) of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos. The selection of both Martinson and

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Death: 8th February 1999 Location: Cremated - ashes scattered in the garden at the Oxford Crematorium. Cause of death: Alzheimer’s Buy books by Iris Murdoch Irish writer and philosopher. Born Jean Iris Murdoch in Dublin, her parents moved to London while she was young. She read classics, ancient history and philosophy at Oxford and went on to study under Ludwig Wittgenstein as a philosophy

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Death: 21st July 1796 Location: Burns Mausoleum, St. Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries, Scotland. Cause of Death: Bacterial Endocarditis / Rheumatic Heart Disease. Photo taken by:  MSDMSD Buy books by Robert Burns.  Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. His poetry draws upon his knowledge of Classical, Biblical and English Literature. He wrote

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Death: 21st January 1862 Location: Vyšehradský hřbitov / Vyšehrad cemetery, Prague, Czech Republic. Photo taken by: Miaow Miaow Buy books by Božena Němcová Czech writer of the final phase of the Czech National Revival movement. She died in poverty after becoming estranged from her husband.

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Death: 17th January 2002Cause of death: Heart Failure Location: Cementerio de Iria Flavia, Iria Flavia, Galicia, Spain Photo taken by: vdbann  Buy books by Camilo José Cela Spanish writer and winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability. He briefly studied law at the University

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Death: 13th January 1941Location: Switzerland, Zürich, Fluntern CemeteryCause of death: Perforated Duodenal UlcerPhoto taken by: DeadGoodBooks Buy books by James Joyce. Irish writer. Considered to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, Joyce was one of the first authors to challenge the traditional concept of what a novel could be.Born James Augustine Aloysius Joyce

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Ashes - Westminster Abbey Heart - Stinsford, Dorset Death: 11th January 1928 Location: Westminster Abbey, London, England (ashes) and Saint Michael’s Church, Stinsford, Dorset, England (heart) Cause of death: Pleurisy Photos taken by: DeadGoodBooks and Clive and Chris. Buy books by Thomas Hardy. English novelist, poet and short story writer. He set the majority of his work in the

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Death: 10th January 1961 Location: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA Cause of death: Cancer - Lung Photo taken by: Wayne Buy books by Dashiell Hammett American author of hard-boiled detective fiction, best remembered for creating the character Sam Spade, who was famously portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 film adaptation of the The Maltese Falcon.

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Death: 10th January 1951Cause of death: advanced alcoholism.Location: Greenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota, United States Buy books by Sinclair Lewis American novelist and playwright. Awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters. He was the first writer

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Death: 10th January 1957. Location: Cementerio de Monte Grande, Monte Grande, Chile. Cause of death: Pancreatic cancer. Photo taken by: Ryan Greenberg By books by Gabriela Mistral. Chilean poet. In 1945 she became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of

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Death: 10th January 1986 Location: Městském hřbitově / Municipal Cemetery, Kralupy nad Vltavou, Mělník District, Czech Republic Photos taken by: Miaow Miaow Buy books by Jaroslav Seifert Czech writer, poet and journalist. Winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable

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Death: 4th January 1941Cause of death: Pneumonia - contracted after standing for several hours in a queue for registration as a Jew in occupied Paris.Location: Cimetiere de Garches, Garches, Île-de-France, France Buy books by Henri Bergson French philosopher. Awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have

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Death:  4th January 1986Cause of death: Prostate cancerLocation: Body donated to medical science, specifically the UCLA Medical School. Buy books by Christopher Isherwood Anglo-American novelist. After studying at Cambridge he moved to Berlin as he was attracted to the reputation that the city had for sexual freedom. He worked as a tutor while working on his novel Mr Norris Changes Trains. 

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Death:  30th December 1944Location:  Cimetière de Brèves, Brèves, Nièvre, Burgundy, France Cause of Death:  Tuberculosis Buy books by Romain Rolland French writer. Awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings. After first studying

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Death: 24th December 1863 Cause of death: Stroke Location: Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England Photo taken by: Loz Flowers Buy books by William Makepeace Thackeray English novelist, best known for writing Vanity Fair. Born in Calcutta, he was sent to school in England at the age of five. He was educated at Charterhouse and then Trinity College, Cambridge, but he dropped out in 1830. He

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Death:  19th December 1989Location: Highgate Cemetery (West), London, England. Photo taken by:  Eddie Daley Buy books by Stella Gibbons English novelist, poet and short-story writer, born in London. After studying journalism at University College, London, she worked for various papers, including the Evening Standard. In 1930 she was sacked from the Standard and began working on the Lady

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 Death:  13th December 1984 Location: Cementerio de la Almudena, Madrid, Spain Buy books by Vicente Aleixandre Spanish Poet. Winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Literature for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars. His early poetry is

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Powazki Cemetery - Ania Janeczko Death:  5th December 1925 Cause of death:  Heart Failure Location: Powązki Cemetery Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland (Body) and Holy Cross Church, Warsaw, Poland (Heart) Photo taken by: Ania Janeczko Buy books by Władysław Reymont Polish writer. Awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature for his great national epic, Chłopi / The Peasants. His career as a writer

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Death: 30th November 1977Cause of death: Bone CancerLocation: Kensal Green Cemetery, London, EnglandBuy books by Terence RattiganEnglish Playwright known for such works as The Winslow Boy(1946), The Browning Version(1948) and Separate Tables(1954).  He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford. His work reflects his privileged background. He achieved success as a playwright early in

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Death: 22nd November 1963 Location: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Quarry Road, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Cause of Death: Kidney Failure Photo Taken By: julia and keld Buy books by C.S. Lewis British author, best remembered for his children’s books in The Chronicles of Narnia series. He was born in Belfast and schooled in England. Lewis enlisted in the British Army in 1917, but was

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Death: 24th November 1922 Location: Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland Cause of death: Executed/Murdered. Buy books by Erskine Childers. English born author. He was born in London to an English father and Irish mother. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and in 1895 he started work as a clerk at the House of Commons. In 1899, at the outbreak of the Second Boer War, he joined the

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