Friday, August 19, 2016

Patrick Dennis, Madcap “Uncle Mame,” Dead at 55 of Pancreatic Cancer

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The real life of Patrick Dennis was just as bizarre as the madcap adventures of his most famous invention, Auntie Mame. ...
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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Syphilitic Stroke Fells Symbolist Poet Charles Baudelaire at 46

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Charles Baudelaire was a mama’s boy and a decadent ne’er-do-well, who wrote a group of poems known as The Flowers of Evil that p...
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Thursday, May 19, 2016

In a “mattress-grave,” poet Heinrich Heine died at 58 of mysterious paralysis

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Heinrich Heine, German poet, journalist, and critic, was born in Düsseldorf, December 13, 1797, to Jewish parents, atten...
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Monday, May 2, 2016

Poet Wallace Stevens, 75, dead of stomach cancer after deathbed conversion

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According to one of his business colleagues at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, the poetry Wallace Stevens...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Liver Cancer Claimed Jean Racine, 59, Torn Between Debauchery and Piety

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Throughout his life, playwright Jean Racine was torn between the rigorous strictures of the strait-laced and deeply pious Ja...
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 44, creator of ‘Little Prince’, dead in wartime plane crash

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, whose famous “Little Prince” was created to combat the popularity of “Mary Poppins,” died...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Flute-playing poet, composer, and lecturer Sidney Lanier dead of tuberculosis at 39

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  Poor Sidney Lanier, for whom a middle school in Houston has been named since 1926, recently suffered the indignity of having his ...