Thursday, February 8, 2018

Author List Volume XIII

Eric Knight (1897-1943) Lassie Come-Home (1940) Born: Menston, Yorkshire, England (plaque at village library). Buried: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, Missouri.








John C. Winston (1856-1920) Born: Darlington, Indiana. Buried: d. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1920. College: Haverford.




Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) Born: 31 Baker Street, Marylebone, London, England. Pompeii, Campania, Italy. Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. College: Trinity Hall (Cambridge)


James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) The Last of the Mohicans (1826) Born: 457 High Street, Burlington, New Jersey. (*****(7-16-02)***** Buried: Christ Episcopal Churchyard, Cooperstown, Otsego, New York.  Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown, Otsego, New York. Farmer's Museum, Lake Road, Cooperstown, Otsego, New York. College: Yale


John Phillips Marquand (1893-1960) The Late George Apley (1937) Born: Wilmington, Delaware. Buried: Sawyer Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts. College: Harvard


Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Notre Dame de Paris (1831), Les Miserables (1862) Born: Besancon, Franche-Comte, France. Buried: Pantheon, 5eme, Paris, France. Maison de Victor Hugo, 6 Place des Vosges, 4eme, Paris, France. Hautville House, 38 Rue Hautville, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, England. Musee Litteraire Victor Hugo, 37 Rue de la Gare, Vianden, Luxembourg.


Napoleon III (1808-1873) Born: 17 Rue Lafitte, 9eme, Paris, France Buried: St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, Hampshire, England. Napoleon III Apartment, Musee du Louvre, 1ere, Paris, France. Chateau de Pierrefonds, Pierrefonds, Picardie, France.


Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) Leviathan (1651) Born: Westport, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England.  Buried: St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire, England. College: Magdalen Hall (now Hertford) (Oxford).


Clarence Day, Jr (1874-1935) Life With Father (1935) Born: New York, New York. Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York. College: Yale.


Clarence Day, Sr (1844-1927) Born: New York, New York. Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.


Russel Crouse (1893-1966) Born: Findlay, Ohio. d. New York, New York. ashes scattered (?)


Howard Lindsay (1889-1968) Born: Waterford, Saratoga, New York. College: Harvard










Ferenc Molnar (1878-1952) Liliom (1909) Born: Jozsef Boulevard 83 (?), Budapest, Hungary. Buried: Linden Hill Methodist Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens, New York. Paul Street Boys Monument, Prater Utca 11, Budapest, Hungary.



Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) Born: 141 York Street, Cheetham, Manchester, Lancashire, England. Buried: Roslyn Cemetery, Greenvale, Nassau, New York.

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Little Women (1868) Born: 5427 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Buried: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Orchard House, 399 Lexington Road, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) Look Homeward, Angel (1929) Born: 92 Woodfin Street, Asheville, North Carolina. Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, North Carolina. Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N Market Street, Asheville, North Carolina. College: North Carolina

Max Perkins (1884-1947) Born: New York, New York. Buried: Lakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, Connecticut. Snapdragon Inn, 26 Main Street, Windsor, Vermont. College: Harvard

Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) Looking Backward (1888) Born: Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts. Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts. Edward Bellamy House, 91-93 Church Street, Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts. The Bradbury Building, 304 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California. College: Union.

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) The N----- of the Narcissus (1897), Lord Jim (1900) Born: Berdychiv, Ukraine. Buried: Canterbury Cemetery, Canterbury, Kent, England. Museum of Joseph Conrad, Voikova Street, Berdychiv, Ukraine. "Joseph Conrad" (ship), Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut.

R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900) Lorna Doone (1869) Born: Old Rectory, Longworth, Oxfordshire, England. Buried: Teddington Cemetery, Teddington, Middlesex (London), England. Doone Valley, Exmoor National Park, Somerset, England. College: Exeter (Oxford)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) Born and Buried: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, Dutchess, New York. (This is quite a complex, including 3 houses, the library, grounds, etc.  Franklin Roosevelt Memorial, 1850 West Basin Drive SW, Washington, District of Columbia. Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island, New York, New York. Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach, Staten Island, Richmond, New York. College: Harvard.

Macbeth (1005-1057) Buried: St Oran's Cemetery, Iona, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Madame Bovary (1857) Born: Musee Flaubert et d'Histoire de la Medecine, 51 Rue de Lecat, Rouen, Normandie, France (*****6-26-99*****) Buried: Rouen Cemetery, Rouen, Normandie, France (*****6-26-99*****) Pont Gustave Flaubert, Rouen, Normandie, France.

Charlotte Underwood (1914-1978)

Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) Born: Rue Brauhauban, Tarbes, Guyenne & Gascony, France. Buried: Cimitiere de Montmarte, 18eme, Paris, Ile, France.

Frans Sillanpaa (1888-1964) The Maid Silja (1931) Born: Hameenkyro, Finland. Buried: Hameenkyro Vanha Hautausmaa, Hameenkyro, Finland. College: Helsinki. 

Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) The Maid's Tragedy (1610) Born: Manor House, Grace-Dieu, Thringstone, Leicestershire, England. Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. College: Pembroke (Oxford)

John Fletcher (1579-1625) The Maid's Tragedy (1610) Born: Ancient Rectory, Rye, Sussex, England. Buried: Southwark Cathedral, Southwark, London, England. College: Corpus Christi (Cambridge)

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) Born: Baltimore, Maryland. Buried: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. H. L. Mencken House, 1524 Rollins Street, Baltimore, Maryland (not currently open).

Charles Laughton (1899-1962) Born: The Victoria Hotel, Westborough, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California.

Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974) Born: Clinton, Worcester, Massachusetts. Buried: Dayton Memorial Park, Dayton, Ohio. College: Muskingum.

Sir Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) Born: Lye, Worcestershire, England. Buried: Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England. College: Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Charles Boyer (1899-1978) Born: Figeac, Lot, Quercy, France. Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles, California. Kasbah des Oudaias, Rabat, Morocco. College: Sorbonne

Tyrone Power (1914-1958) Born: Cincinnati, Ohio. Buried: Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, California.

                                                                                                                                                   




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