Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) A Study in Scarlet (1887), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) Born: 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Minstead, Hampshire, England. Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street, Marylebone, London, England. Real Sherlock Holmes Walking Tour, 361 High Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. College: Edinburgh.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), She Stoops to Conquer (1773) Born: Smith Hill House, Elphin, Roscommon, Ireland or Ballymahon, Longford, Ireland. Buried: Temple Church, City, London, England *****(6-27-2001)***** Statue, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. College: Trinity (Dublin)
Edna Ferber (1885-1968) Showboat (1926) Born: Kalamazoo, Michigan. Buried: Unknown. College: Lawrence University (Wisc.)
Jerome Kern (1885-1945) Born: Sutton Place, New York, New York. Buried: Ferncliff Cemetrery, Hartsdale, Westchester, New York. College: New York College of Music (defunct).
Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) Soldiers of Fortune (1897) Born: 21st & Chancellor Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Buried: Leverington Cemetery, Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. College: Swarthmore, Lehigh, Johns Hopkins.
Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879) Born: Maison Paternelle de Sainte-Bernadette, 2 Rue Bernadette Soubirous, Lourdes, Occitania, France. Buried: Espace Bernadette Soubirous Nevers, 34 Rue Saint-Gildard, Nevers, Nivernais, France.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Sons and Lovers (1913) Born: D H Lawrence Birthplace Museum, 8a Victoria Street, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England (*****7-1-2001*****). Buried: D H Lawrence Ranch, Taos, New Mexico. College: Nottingham. D. H. Lawrence Heritage Center, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England (*****7-1-2001*****). This appears to have closed in 2015. I did visit it when I was in Nottinghamshire in 2001, as noted here.
Stark Young (1881-1963) So Red the Rose (1934) Born: Como, Mississippi. Buried: Friendship Cemetery, Como, Mississippi. College: Mississippi.
Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) Born: Bredfield House, Bredfield (nr. Woodbridge), Suffolk, England. Buried: St Michael Churchyard, Boulge, Suffolk, England. College: Trinity (Cambridge).
Norman Douglas (1868-1952) South Wind (1917) Born: Villa Falkenhorst(?), Thüringen, Austria. Buried: Protestant Cemetery, Capri, Campania, Italy.
Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) The Spanish Tragedy (1586) Born: St Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street, City, London, England. Buried: St Mary Colechurch, Poultry & Old Jewry, City, London, England (destroyed in 1666 fire).
Herman Hesse (1877-1962) The Steppenwolf (1927) Born: Marktplatz 6, Calw, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Buried: Cemetery, San Abbondio, Montagnola, Switzerland. Hermann-Hesse-Museum, Maktpl. 30, Calw, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Museo e Fondazione Hermann Hesse, via Ra Cuerta 2, Montagnola, Switzerland.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) The Story of a Bad Boy (1869-70) Born: Court Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Thomas Bailey Aldrich House, Strawberry Banke Museum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Born: 3 The Bruhl, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Richard Wagner Museum, Richard-Wagner-Weg 27, Luzern, Switzerland. Buried: Richard Wagner Museum, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 48, Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany. College: Leipzig.
James T. Farrell (1904-1979) Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1933), Judgment Day (1935). Born: Chicago, Illinois. Buried: Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, Illinois. College: Chicago.
Johann David Wyss (1743-1818) The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) Born: Bern, Switzerland. Buried: I can't find confirmation, but he was the pastor at the Bern Munster Cathedral, so perhaps it is there. Colleges: Bern, Lausanne.
Johann Rudolf Wyss (1782-1730) Born: Bern, Switzerland. Buried: ? Colleges: Bern, Tubingen, Gottingen, Halle.
The IWE exhorted its readers not to confuse the author of Swiss Family Robinson with his father, who wrote the Swiss national anthem, though they appear to have been extremely confused on the matter themselves, since Johann David's son is the Johann Rudolf who is the apparent author of the national anthem, and they give Johann David's life dates as the son's, roughly (1781-1830).
I thought this was a pretty famous book? There is virtually biographical information about either of these men on the internet. Their Wikipedia articles in English are about 3 sentences each. The German and French ones report the universities each attended, but not much else.
Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) Tartarin of Tarascon (1872) Born: 20 Boulevard Gambetta, Nimes, Languedoc, France. Buried: Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise, 20eme, Paris, France. Museum Alphonse Daudet, 710 Chemin de la Vignasse, Saint-Alban-Auriolles, Languedoc, France. Le Sentier des Moulins d'Alphonse Daudet, Avenue des Moulins, Fontvieille, Arles, Languedoc, France. Maison Alphonse Daudet, 33 Rue Alphonse Daudet, Draveil, Essone, Ile-de-France, France.
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