Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Author List Volume XX

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Volpone (1605) Born: Westminster, London, England. Buried: North Aisle of Nave, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England.


Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Walden (1854) Born: Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (*****8-6-1997*****) Buried: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (*****8-6-1997*****) Thoreau House, Walden Pond, Route 126, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (*****8-6-1997*****) College: Harvard


Eugene Sue (1804-1857) The Wandering Jew (1844-5) Born: Paris, France. Buried: Cimitiere de Loverchy, Annecy, Rhone-Alpes, France.


Orson Welles (1915-1985) Born: Kenosha, Wisconsin. Buried: Sculpture, Paseo de Blas Infante 1, Ronda, Malaga, Spain. College: Art Institute of Chicago.


Adam Smith (1723-1790) The Wealth of Nations (1776) Born: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. Buried: Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Adam Smith Statue, 192 Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. College: Glasgow, Balliol (Oxford)

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) Westward Ho! (1855) Born: Holme, Devon, England Buried: St. Mary Churchyard, Eversley, Hampshire, England. Museum, Clovelly, Devon, England. College: Kings (London), Magdalene (Cambridge).


Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) Wild Animals I Have Known (1898) Born: South Shields, Durham, England.  Buried: Ashes scattered, Seton Village, New Mexico. Seton Memorial Library and Museum, Philmont Scout Ranch, Philmont, New Mexico. College: Royal Academy of Art (London).


Johan Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) William Tell (1804) Born: Schillers Geburtshaus, Niklastorstrasse 31, Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany. Buried: Weimarer Furstengruoft, Am Poseckchen Garten, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany. Schillerhaus Weimar, Schillerstrasse 12, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany. Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Schillerhohe 8, Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Schillers Gartenhaus, Schillergasschen 8, Jena, Thuringia, Germany. Schillers Wohnhaus, Schillerstrasse 12, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany. Goethe-und-Schiller-Archiv, Jenaer Strasse 1, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany. Schillerhaus Leipzig, Menckestrasse 42, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Schillerhaus Rudolstadt, Schillerstrasse 25, Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany. Schillerhauschen, Schillerstrasse 19, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Schiller-Museum Bauerbach, 1 Friedrich Schiller Strasse, Grabfeld, Thuringia, Germany. Statue, Schillerplatz, Vienna, Austria. Schiller Monument, Gendarmenmarkt, Vor dem Schauspielhaus, Berlin, Germany. Statue, Furtwangler Park, Salzburg, Austria.


William Tell: (fl. ca. 1307) Tell-Museum, Burglen, Switzerland. Wilhelm Tell Monument, Rathausplatz 1, Altdorf, Switzerland. Rutli, Seelisberg, Switzerland.
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) The Wind in the Willows (1908) Born: 30 Castle Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Buried: Holywell Cemetery, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.


A. A. Milne (1882-1956) Born: Kilburn, London, England. Buried: Unknown. College: Trinity (Cambridge)


Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Winesburg, Ohio (1919) Born: Camden, Ohio. Buried: Round Hill Cemetery, Marion, Virginia.


L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) The Wizard of Oz (1900) Born: All Things Oz Museum, 219 Genesee Street, Chittenango, Madison, New York. Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California.

David Montgomery (1870-1917) Born: St Joseph, Missouri. Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.

Fred Stone (1873-1959) Born: Longmont, Colorado. Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California.

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) A Woman's Life (1883) Born: Chateau de Miromesnil, Tourville-sur-Arques, Normandy, France. Buried: Cimitiere de Montparnasse, 14eme, Paris, Ile, France. Monument a Guy de Maupassant, Parc Monceau, 8eme, Paris, Ile, France.

Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958) The World of the Thibaults/Summer 1914 (1922-1940) Born: 69 Boulevard Bineau, Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Ile-de-France, France. Buried: Cimiez Monastery Cemetery, Cimiez, Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. College: L'Ecole National des Chartes


Emily Bronte (1818-1848) Wuthering Heights (1847) Born: 72-74 Market Street, Thornton, Yorkshire, England. Buried: St. Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth, Yorkshire, England.  Bronte Parsonage Museum, Church Street, Haworth, Yorkshire, England. Bronte Waterfalls, Haworth Moor, Haworth, Yorkshire, England. Top Withens, Hebden Bridge, nr Haworth, Yorkshire, England.


Xenophon (431 B.C.-354 B.C.) Xenophon's Anabasis (399-394 B.C.) Born: Athens, Attica, Greece.

George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)  You Can't Take It With You (1937) Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Buried: Cremated/Unknown.


Moss Hart (1904-) You Can't Take It With You (1937) Born: 74 East 105th Street, New York, New York. Buried: Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, Westchester, New York.


Josephine Hull (1877-1957) Born: Newtonville, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Buried: Newton Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. College: New England Conservatory of Music, Radcliffe.


Henry Travers (1874-1965) Born: Prudhoe, Northumberland, England. Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California.


Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) Dr. Zhivago (1957) Born: 3 Oruzheiny Lane, Moscow, Russia. Buried: Peredelkino Cemetery, Peredelkino, Moscow obl., Russia. Boris Pasternak's House Museum, Ulitsa Pavelenko 3, Michurinets (Peredelkino), Moscow obl., Russia. College: Moscow Conservatory, Marburg.

Now that, as they say, is a face. (2/10/21--picture lost)


Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (1926-1972) Born: Milan, Italy. Buried: Monumental Cemetery, Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Via Romagnosi 3, Milan, Lombardy, Italy.



This guy died when he was blown up, most likely by his own explosives, while trying to knock out Milan's power grid as part of a militant left wing operation that he had himself founded.


Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)  Zuleika Dobson (1911) Born: 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, London, England. Buried: St. Paul's Cathedral, City, London, England. College: Merton (Oxford).


So I have come to the last volume and the end of the author lists, barring the addition of any new museums or monuments or addresses that come to my attention. But this is not the end of IWE-themed lists, as I am going to take up their travel recommendations, and that should take up another 4-5 years of post-padding.




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