Rudolf Raspe (1736-1794) Baron Munchausen (1785) Born: Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. Buried: Killegy Churchyard, Muckross, Kerry, Ireland. College: Gottingen; Leipzig.
Baron Munchausen (1720-1797) Born: Munchhausen Museum, Muenchhausenplatz 1, Bodenwerder, Lower Saxony, Germany. Buried: Church, Kloster Kemnade, Bodenwerder, Lower Saxony, Germany. Munchhausen Landgut Dunte, Dunte, Latvia.
Charles Nordhoff (1887-1947) Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) Born: City, London, England. Buried: Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Redlands, San Bernardino, California. College: Harvard.
James Norman Hall (1887-1951) Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) Born: 416 East Howard Street, Colfax, Iowa. Buried: James Norman Hall Home, Arue, Tahiti, French Polynesia (Hill overlooking home). College: Grinnell.
William Bligh (1754-1817) Born: Plymouth, Devon, England. Buried: Garden Museum, St Mary's Church, Lambeth, London, England. Bligh Museum of Pacific Exploration, 876 Main Road, Adventure Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia.
Emile Zola (1840-1902) Nana (1880) Born: 10 Rue St-Joseph, 2eme, Paris, France. Buried: Pantheon, 5eme, Paris, France. La Maison d'Emile Zola, 26 Rue Pasteur, Medan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France. Monument, Avenue Emile Zola (near Charles Michel Metro station), 15eme, Paris, France.
George Orwell (1903-1950) 1984 (1949) Born: East Champaran, Bihar, India. Buried: All Saint's Churchyard, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England. George Orwell's House, Katha, Myanmar.
Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) Northwest Passage (1937) Born: Storer Mansion, Storer Street, Kennebunk, Maine. Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. College: Cornell.
Robert Rogers (1731-1795) Born: Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts. Buried: London, England (Gravesite lost). Rogers Island Visitors Center, 11 Rogers Island Drive, Fort Edward, Washington, New York. Rogers Rock, Lake George, Warren, New York.
William Hogarth (1697-1764) Born: Bartholomew Close, Smithfield, London, England. Buried: St Nicholas's Churchyard, Chiswick Mall, Chiswick, London, England. Hogarth's House, Hogarth Lane, Great West Road, Chiswick, London, England.
Cathedrale Notre Dame, 4eme, Paris France.
Odysseus Born: Ithaca, Ionian Islands, Greece.
Oedipus Rex Born: Thebes, Central Greece, Greece.
Robert Burns (1759-1796) Born: Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Murdoch's Lone, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. Buried: St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries, Dumfries, Scotland. Burns Cottage, 16 Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. Writers' Museum, Lawnmarket, Lady Stair's Close, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland. Robert Burns Ellisland Farm, Holywood Road, Auldgirth, Dumfries, Scotland. Burns Monument, Kay Park, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) The Old Wives' Tale (1908) Born: Hope Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Buried: Burslem Cemetery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
Aeschylus (525 B.C.-456 B.C.) Seven Against Thebes (467 B.C.), The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers & The Eumenides, 458 B.C.) Born: Eleusis, Attica, Greece. Buried: Gela, Sicily, Italy (tomb not extant). Parco Archeologico della Neapolis, Via Paradiso 14, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.
Agamemnon Born: Mycenae, Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Mask of Agamemnon, National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Attica, Greece.
Orestes Born: Mycenae, Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece.
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) The Origin of Species and the Descent of Man (1859) Born: The Mount, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. Down House, Luxted Road, Down, Kent, England. Charles Darwin Research Station, Avenue Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador. Colleges: Edinburgh, Christ's (Cambridge).
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) Born: Llanbadoc, Wales. Buried: Broadstone Cemetery, Broadstone, Dorset, England. College: Birkbeck (London).
These lists are getting shorter as we move into the later volumes, as more of the books in them are by authors who have already appeared.
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