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Verner von Heidenstam (1859-1940)

Authors - V Awards - Nobel Prize Genre - Literature Genre - Poetry Location - Sweden Nationality - Swedish Year of Death - 1940-1949

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August Strindberg (1849-1912)

Authors - S Cause of Death - Cancer Genre - Drama Genre - Literature Location - Sweden Nationality - Swedish Year of Death - 1910-1919

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Alfred Nobel (1833-1896)

Authors - N Awards - Nobel Prize Cause of Death - Stroke / Cerebral Hemorrhage Literary Connections Location - Sweden Nationality - Swedish Year of Death - 1890-1899

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Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1973)

Authors - M Cause of Death - Suicide / Euthanasia Genre - Drama Genre - Fiction Location - Sweden Nationality - Swedish Year of Death - 1970-1979

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Harry Martinson (1904-1978)

Authors - M Awards - Nobel Prize Cause of Death - Suicide / Euthanasia Genre - Literature Genre - Poetry Location - Sweden Nationality - Swedish Year of Death - 1970-1979

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Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002)

Authors - L Genre - Children's Location - Sweden Nationality - Swedish Year of Death - 2000-2009

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Ricardo Palma (1833-1919)

Death: 6th October 1919 Location: Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro, Bario Alto, Lima, Peru Photo taken by: Fmurillo26 Buy books by Ricardo Palma Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. Palma's literary reputation rests upon his creation and development of the literary genre known as tradiciones , short stories that mix history and fiction, written both to amuse and educate. His Tradiciones peruanas span several centuries, with an emphasis on earlier colonial and republican times in Peru. Some of the Tradiciones peruanas have been translated into English under the title The Knights of the Cape and Thirty-seven Other Selections from the Tradiciones Peruanas of Ricardo Palma (1945) and more recently under the title Peruvian Traditions (2004). His son Clemente Palma became a prominent writer of fantastic tales, usually horror stories that were influenced by Edgar Allan Poe. His daughter Angélica Palma was also a writer and a member of the early femin...

Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川乱歩) (1894-1965)

Death: 28th July 1965 Location: Tama Reien (多磨霊園), Fuchu, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan Plot: 26-1-17-6 Cause of death: Cerebral Haemorrhage Photo taken by: Honeydance Buy books by Edogawa Rampo Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogorō Akechi , who in later books, for juvenile readers, was the leader of the Boy Detective's Gang (少年探偵団). Rampo was an admirer of western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe (his pen name is a rendering of Poe's name). He was also influenced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , whom he attempted to translate into Japanese. In 1923 he made his literary debut by publishing the mystery story The Two-Sen Copper Coin (二銭銅貨). Over the course of the next several years, Edogawa went on to write a number of other stories that focus on crimes and the processes involved in solving them. Among these stories are a number of...

Michael Llewelyn Davies (1900-1921)

Death: 19th May 1921 Cause of death: Drowning Location: St Johns at Hampstead (Churchyard Extension), London, England Photo taken by: DeadGoodBooks Michael Llewelyn Davies was the forth of the five sons of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies . He is widely reported to be the individual who most influenced J. M. Barrie in the creation of Peter Pan . He drowned in suspicious circumstances with a close friend just short of his 21st birthday. J. M. Barrie became guardian of the Llewelyn Davies boys following the death of their father in 1907 and their mother in 1910. Michael attended Christ Church, Oxford, where he became very close to Rupert Buxton. Shortly before Davies' 21st birthday, he and Buxton drowned together in Sandford Pool on the River Thames. The closeness of Davies and Buxton, combined with the uncertain circumstances of their death, led to speculation that the pair had died in a suicide pact. The Sandford Pool was well known as a drowning hazard a...

J. M. Barrie (Sir James Matthew Barrie) (1860-1937)

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 it was an unhappy marriage and ended in divorce. Barrie became friends with the Llewelyn-Davies family after meeting them whilst walking his dog in Kensington Gardens. Barrie became the guardian of the five Llewelyn-Davis boys after they were orphaned. Their mother, Sylvia , was the daughter of the author George du Maurier. Barrie entertained the boys with stories which led to the creation of Peter Pan ; the copyright of which Barrie gave to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

Norman Mailer (1923-2007)

Death: 10th November 2007 Location : Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States Cause of death: Renal Failure Photo taken by: George Fitzgerald Buy books by Norman Mailer American novelist, essayist and journalist whose novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and is based on his military service in World War II. His best-known work was widely considered to be The Executioner's Song (1979), which was published in 1979, and for which he won one of his two P ulitzer Prizes . In addition to the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction , his book Armies of the Night received the National Book Award . Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism , which uses the style and devices of literary fiction in fact-based journalism.

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