Francoise Sagan (1935-2004) Bonjour Tristesse (1954) Born: Maison Quoirez, Cajarc, Midi-Pyrenees, France. Buried: Seuzac Village Cemetery, Cajarc, Midi-Pyrenees, France.
I had not realized that she had died. I thought she be a candidate for the last person on this list to still be alive. I am aware of at least one author from this group who lives yet. He is coming up in this very post, too.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) The Book of Snobs (1846-7), Vanity Fair (1847-8), Henry Esmond (1852) Born: 56B Free School Street (nr Armenian College), Calcutta, India. Buried: Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England. College: Trinity (Cambridge).
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) Boris Gudonov (1825), Eugene Onegin (1831), The Captain's Daughter (1836) Born: Moscow, Russia. Buried: Svyatogorsk Monastery Cemetery, Pushkinskiye Gory, Pskov Oblast, Russia. National Pushkin Museum (http://www.museumpushkin.ru/eng), 12 Moika River Embankment, St Petersburg, Russia. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (http://www.arts-museum.ru/index.php?lang=en), Volkhonka Street, Moscow, Russia. State Alexander Pushkin Museum (http://www.moscow.info/museums/state-alexander-pushkin-museum.aspx), Ul Arbat 53, Moscow, Russia. Alexander Pushkin Museum (http://www.vilniausmuziejai.lt/a_puskinas/index.htm), Subaciaus g-24, Vilnius, Lithuania. Mikhailovskoye, State Museum-Preserve of A.S. Pushkin (http://pushkin.elink.ru/english/pushkin/push1.asp), Pushkinskiye Gory, Pskov Obl., Russia. Alexander Pushkin Museum, Chisinau, Moldova. Alexander Pushkin's Museum, Pushkins'ka 13, Odessa, Ukraine. Dacha-Museum, Pushkin, Leningrad, Russia. Catherine Palace, Pushkin, Leningrad, Russia. College: Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
Boris Godunov (1551-1605) Born: Vyazma, Smolensk Obl., Russia (?) Buried: Trinity Lavra of St Sergius, Segiyev Posad, Russia. Kremlin, Moscow, Russia.
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) Born: Mussorgsky Estate-Museum (?), Karevo, Toropets, Tver Obl., Russia. Buried: Tikhvin Cemetery, Alexander Nevsky Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
There is definitely at least one Mussorgsky museum in Russia, and there may be two. Some of the pages identify a museum as being in Karevo, and others in Naumovo, which is about 13 miles away. There are pictures and even videos of one of these places, but I can no definitive information in a brief search as to exactly where it is.
Moliere (1622-1673) Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670) Born: 96 Rue St Honore, 1ere, Paris, France. (There is a second monument claiming to represent Moliere's birthplace, apparently incorrectly, at 31 Rue du Pont-Neuf, 1ere, Paris, France) Buried: Pere Lachaise Cemetery, 20eme, Paris, France. Hotel Moliere (http://www.hotel-moliere-paris-louvre.com/), 21 Rue Moliere, 1ere, Paris, France.
John Maddison Morton (1811-1891) Box and Cox (1847) Born: Pangbourne, Berkshire, England. Buried: Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England.
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) Born: Lambeth, London, England. Buried: St Paul's Cathedral, City, London, England. College: Royal Academy of Music.
W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) Born: 17 Southhampton Street, Strand, London, England. Buried: Church of St John the Evangelist, Stanmore, Harrow Weald, London, England. College: King's (London).
Francis Burnand (1836-1917) Born: London, England. Buried: St Augustine's Abbey Churchyard, Ramsgate, Kent, England. College: Trinity (Cambridge).
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Brave New World (1932) Born: Laleham House, Peperharow Road, Godalming, Surrey, England. Buried: Watts Mortuary Chapel Grounds, Compton, Surrey, England. College: Balliol (Oxford).
Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) Bread and Wine (1937) Born: Pescina, Abruzzo, Italy. Buried: Pescina, Abruzzo, Italy (exact site apparently unknown, however).
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), Ivanhoe (1820), Kenilworth (1821) Born: College Wynd (plaque on 8 Chambers Street), Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Buried: Dryburgh Abbey, Borders, Scotland. College: Edinburgh. Scott Monument (http://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/Scott-Monument), Princes Street Gardens East, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. The Writer's Museum (http://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/The-Writers-Museum), Lady Stair's Close, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Abbotsford House (http://www.scottsabbotsford.co.uk/), Melrose, Scotland. Sir Walter Scott's Courtroom, Market Place, Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland.
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) Born: 14 Borgo Canale, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. Buried: Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. Donizetti Museum, 9 Via Arena, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) Brideshead Revisited (1945) Born: 11 Hillfield Road, Hampstead, London, England. Buried: Churchyard, Combe Florey, Somerset, England. College: Hertford (Oxford).
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) The Cabala (1926), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), Our Town (1938) Born: 140 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin. Buried: Mt Carmel Cemetery, Hamden, Connecticut. Miller Memorial Central Library, 2901 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut. College: Yale.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Born: 2 Dostoevsko Street, Moscow, Russia. Buried: Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St Petersburg, Russia. Dostoevsky Museum, Kuznetsky Lane 5/2, St Petersburg, Russia. Omsk State Dostoevsky Museum, Dostoevskaya 1, Omsk, Russia. Hotel Dostoevsky, Vladimirski Prospekt 19, St Petersburg, Russia. Museum, Darovoe, Russia. Museum, 40 Dosoevsky Street, Kuznetsk, Penza Obl., Russia. Museum, Dostoevsky Street 117, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. Museum, Dostoevsky Embankment 42, Staraya Russa, Novgorod Obl., Russia. College: Military Engineering-Technical University (St Petersburg)
Constance Garnett (1861-1946) Born: Brighton, Sussex, England. College: Newham (Cambridge).
I cannot find any evidence that Garnett was buried in the churchyard at Limpsfield in Surrey; however she appeared to have lived in this village for the last fifty years of her life.
Princess Alexandra Kropotkin (1887-1966) Born: Bromley(?) or Harrow(?), London, England.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Buddenbrooks (1901), The Magic Mountain (1924), Joseph and His Brothers (1933-44) Born: Lubeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Buried: Kilchberg Village Cemetery, Kilchberg, Switzerland. Buddenbrookhaus, Mengstrasse 4, Lubeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Thomas Mann Museum & Cultural Center, 17 Skruzdynes Street, Nerunga (Nida), Lithuania. Thomas Mann Archives, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. B & B Al Pantheon con Thomas Mann, Via del Pantheon 57, Rome, Italy. College: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867) Bulfinch's Mythology (1855) Born: Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Buried: Mt Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. College: Harvard.
O. Henry (1862-1910) Cabbages and Kings (1899) Born: Greensboro, North Carolina. Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, North Carolina. O. Henry Museum, 409 East 5th Street, Austin, Texas. O Henry House Museum, 601 Dolorosa Street, San Antonio, Texas. O Henry Room, Capital Visitors Center, 112 East 11th Street, Austin, Texas.
Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) The Gallic Wars (50 B.C.), The Civil Wars (47 B.C.) Born: Rome, Lazio, Italy. Buried: Temple of Caesar, Forum, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Bust of Caesar, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Murder Site, Largo di Torre Argentina, Rome, Italy.
Herman Wouk (1915- ) The Caine Mutiny (1951) Born: East 167th Street, Bronx, New York. College: Columbia.
At age 98, and with Francoise Sagan already passed, I am pretty certain Herman Wouk is the only author on this list who can still be alive. Here is a Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire he did last year at 97.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Cakes and Ale (1930) Born: British Embassy, 35 Rue du Faubourg St Honore, 8eme, Paris, France. Buried: Ashes scattered near Maugham Library, King's School, Canterbury, Kent, England. College: Heidelberg
Jack London (1876-1916) The Call of the Wild (1903) Born: near 3rd & Brannan Streets, San Francisco, California. Buried: Jack London State Historic Park, Glen Ellen, Sonoma, California. Jack London Interpretive Museum, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Jack London Square, 466 Water Street, Oakland, Alameda, California. Jack London Inn, 444 Embarcadero West, Oakland, Alameda, California. College: California.
Alexandre Dumas Fils (1824-1895) Camille (The Lady of the Camellias) (1848). Born: 1 Place Boieldieu, 2eme, Paris, France. Buried: Cimitiere de Montmartre, 18eme, Paris, France.
Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) Born: Ni 24/32, Via XX Settembre, Vigevano, Lombardy, Italy. Buried: Cemetery of Sant' Anna, Asolo, Veneto, Italy.
The IWE reports that "The play appeared in 1852 with Eleonora Duse in the title role," but this obviously is wrong, unless there was another, older, Eleonora Duse, who has been completely forgotten by fame. This seems unlikely, however.
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