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literary deaths
* Virginia Woolf [1882-1941] British Author & Critic - Filled pockets
with stones and drowned self in the river Ouse.
* Franz Kafka [1883-1924] - Died of tuberculosis and was buried in
Prag-Straschintz. Had requested that all of his work be destroyed
after his death.
* Ezra Pound [1885-1972] - Arrested for treason after World War II for
broadcasting Fascist propaganda, declared mentally ill and committed
to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Washington D.C. Released in 1958 and died
a semi-recluse in Italy.
* Maxwell Bodenheim [1893-1954] American Author - Shot with a .22
rifle by an insane dishwasher.
* Sergei Esenin [1895-1925] Russian Poet - Cut wrists, wrote a final
poem in own blood (called "Do svidania drug moi" or "Goodbye my
friend") and hanged self in a hotel room in Leningrad.
* F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] American Author - Legendary boozer
suffered a heart attack while working as a screenwriter in Hollywood
for a couple of hundred bucks a week. According to John O Hara, Fitz
died "a prematurely old little man haunting bookshops unrecognized."
* William Faulkner [1897-1962] American Author - Suffered a heart
attack after falling off a horse.
* Hart Crane [1899-1932] American Poet - While en route to New York
aboard the S.S. Orizaba, leapt into the Caribbean Sea; reputedly said
"Good-bye everybody."
* Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961] American Author - Blew brains out with
a hunting rifle in Ketchum, Idaho.
* Thomas Wolfe [1900-1938] American Author - Suffered a cerebral
infection, leaving an eight-foot-high manuscript for his editors to
sort through. Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, North Carolina.
". . . the last voyage, the longest, the best."
* Nathanael West [1903-1940] American Author - Car accident killed
West and his wife after he ignored a stop sign. His buddy, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, died the same weekend.
* Robert E. Howard [1906-1936] Sword & Sorcery Writer - Spent
all-night vigil at bedside of comatose mother and died of
self-inflicted gunshot in the morning; mother died that same night.
* Malcolm Lowry [1909-1957] British Author - A "sleeping-pill
suicide," fell dead with a plate in hand while starting in on a
midnight snack, according to writer Donald Newlove. ". . . and how
alike are the groans of love, to those of dying."
* Tennessee Williams [1911-1983] American Playwright - Choked on a
bottle cap while trying to get hands on some barbiturates.
* Albert Camus [1913-1960] French Author - Single-car automobile crash
while returning to Paris from the South of France.
* John Berryman [1914-1972] American Poet - Jumped from a bridge over
the Mississippi River; reputedly waved at passersby on way down.
* Dylan Thomas [1914-1953] Welsh Poet - Alcohol poisoning during a
lecture tour of the United States. "I've had 18 straight whiskies . .
. I think that's the record."
* Roland Barthes [1915-1980] French Critic & Philosopher - Run over by
laundry truck outside the College de France. "Literature is the
question minus the answer."
* Jack Kerouac [1922-1969] American Author - Abdominal hemorrhage at
mother's home in St. Petersburg, Florida, while watching "The
Galloping Gourmet."
* Flannery OConnor [1924-1964] American Author - Became gradually
immobilized by lupus and died at the age of 40.
* Yukio Mishima [1925-1970] Japanese Author - Committed seppuku
(hara-kiri) and was beheaded during failed attempt to overtake a
Japanese garrison.
* Anne Sexton [1928-1974] American Poet - Committed suicide by carbon
monoxide poisoning in the garage of her home.
* Sylvia Plath [1932-1963] American Poet - Stuck head in a kitchen
oven.
* Jerzy Kosinski [1933-1991] Polish-Born American Author - Think he
committed suicide by placing a plastic bag over his head in the
bathtub. Can anyone else confirm this?
* Richard Brautigan [1935-1984] American Author - Self-inflicted
gunshot wound; body wasn't discovered for several weeks.
* Seth Morgan [1949-1990] American Author - Rode motorcycle off the
Golden Gate Bridge and into the San Francisco Bay.
* John O Brien [1961-1997] American Author - Committed suicide just
two weeks after selling the movie rights to "autobiographical novel"
Leaving Las Vegas. Book served as suicide note.
Yasunari Kawabata(1899-1972)Japanese author, Winner of the 1968 Nobel
Prize
Mentor to Yukio Mishima, died by his own hand, supposedly inspired by
the suicide of Mishima.
Thomas Merton(1915-1968)Author and Trappist Monk
Electrocuted by faulty wiring in lamp in Thailand.
John Kennedy O'Toole, American author
Suicide before his novel "Confederacy of Dunces" is finally accepted
and published
Lew Welch(1926-1971)Beat Poet, Dave Wain in Big Sur
While staying in Gary Snyder's cabin in Nevada County, CA, took his
revolver and walked into the woods, leaving a suicide note. Body never
found.
Brendan Behan [1923-1964]- Died of acute alcohol poisoning in Meath
Hospital, March 20, 1964.
William S Burroughs Jr [1947-1981]- Died in Florida on the 3rd of
March, 1981 from liver failure after a life of alcohol and amphetamine
abuse.
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* Virginia Woolf [1882-1941] British Author & Critic - Filled pockets
with stones and drowned self in the river Ouse.
* Franz Kafka [1883-1924] - Died of tuberculosis and was buried in
Prag-Straschintz. Had requested that all of his work be destroyed
after his death.
* Ezra Pound [1885-1972] - Arrested for treason after World War II for
broadcasting Fascist propaganda, declared mentally ill and committed
to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Washington D.C. Released in 1958 and died
a semi-recluse in Italy.
* Maxwell Bodenheim [1893-1954] American Author - Shot with a .22
rifle by an insane dishwasher.
* Sergei Esenin [1895-1925] Russian Poet - Cut wrists, wrote a final
poem in own blood (called "Do svidania drug moi" or "Goodbye my
friend") and hanged self in a hotel room in Leningrad.
* F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] American Author - Legendary boozer
suffered a heart attack while working as a screenwriter in Hollywood
for a couple of hundred bucks a week. According to John O Hara, Fitz
died "a prematurely old little man haunting bookshops unrecognized."
* William Faulkner [1897-1962] American Author - Suffered a heart
attack after falling off a horse.
* Hart Crane [1899-1932] American Poet - While en route to New York
aboard the S.S. Orizaba, leapt into the Caribbean Sea; reputedly said
"Good-bye everybody."
* Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961] American Author - Blew brains out with
a hunting rifle in Ketchum, Idaho.
* Thomas Wolfe [1900-1938] American Author - Suffered a cerebral
infection, leaving an eight-foot-high manuscript for his editors to
sort through. Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, North Carolina.
". . . the last voyage, the longest, the best."
* Nathanael West [1903-1940] American Author - Car accident killed
West and his wife after he ignored a stop sign. His buddy, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, died the same weekend.
* Robert E. Howard [1906-1936] Sword & Sorcery Writer - Spent
all-night vigil at bedside of comatose mother and died of
self-inflicted gunshot in the morning; mother died that same night.
* Malcolm Lowry [1909-1957] British Author - A "sleeping-pill
suicide," fell dead with a plate in hand while starting in on a
midnight snack, according to writer Donald Newlove. ". . . and how
alike are the groans of love, to those of dying."
* Tennessee Williams [1911-1983] American Playwright - Choked on a
bottle cap while trying to get hands on some barbiturates.
* Albert Camus [1913-1960] French Author - Single-car automobile crash
while returning to Paris from the South of France.
* John Berryman [1914-1972] American Poet - Jumped from a bridge over
the Mississippi River; reputedly waved at passersby on way down.
* Dylan Thomas [1914-1953] Welsh Poet - Alcohol poisoning during a
lecture tour of the United States. "I've had 18 straight whiskies . .
. I think that's the record."
* Roland Barthes [1915-1980] French Critic & Philosopher - Run over by
laundry truck outside the College de France. "Literature is the
question minus the answer."
* Jack Kerouac [1922-1969] American Author - Abdominal hemorrhage at
mother's home in St. Petersburg, Florida, while watching "The
Galloping Gourmet."
* Flannery OConnor [1924-1964] American Author - Became gradually
immobilized by lupus and died at the age of 40.
* Yukio Mishima [1925-1970] Japanese Author - Committed seppuku
(hara-kiri) and was beheaded during failed attempt to overtake a
Japanese garrison.
* Anne Sexton [1928-1974] American Poet - Committed suicide by carbon
monoxide poisoning in the garage of her home.
* Sylvia Plath [1932-1963] American Poet - Stuck head in a kitchen
oven.
* Jerzy Kosinski [1933-1991] Polish-Born American Author - Think he
committed suicide by placing a plastic bag over his head in the
bathtub. Can anyone else confirm this?
* Richard Brautigan [1935-1984] American Author - Self-inflicted
gunshot wound; body wasn't discovered for several weeks.
* Seth Morgan [1949-1990] American Author - Rode motorcycle off the
Golden Gate Bridge and into the San Francisco Bay.
* John O Brien [1961-1997] American Author - Committed suicide just
two weeks after selling the movie rights to "autobiographical novel"
Leaving Las Vegas. Book served as suicide note.
Yasunari Kawabata(1899-1972)Japanese author, Winner of the 1968 Nobel
Prize
Mentor to Yukio Mishima, died by his own hand, supposedly inspired by
the suicide of Mishima.
Thomas Merton(1915-1968)Author and Trappist Monk
Electrocuted by faulty wiring in lamp in Thailand.
John Kennedy O'Toole, American author
Suicide before his novel "Confederacy of Dunces" is finally accepted
and published
Lew Welch(1926-1971)Beat Poet, Dave Wain in Big Sur
While staying in Gary Snyder's cabin in Nevada County, CA, took his
revolver and walked into the woods, leaving a suicide note. Body never
found.
Brendan Behan [1923-1964]- Died of acute alcohol poisoning in Meath
Hospital, March 20, 1964.
William S Burroughs Jr [1947-1981]- Died in Florida on the 3rd of
March, 1981 from liver failure after a life of alcohol and amphetamine
abuse.
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