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Written in Stone - The Literary Cemetery

Description: Keep up to date with deaths in the literary world.
Whether someone is a playwright, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner or Pulp fiction writer their passing will be recorded here.

For more information on writers deaths please see the Literary Cemetery website where you can also find out where departed authors are buried, plus view photos of their graves.

Struggling with trying to decide what to read next? Why not pay tribute to an author who has recently died by reading one of their works.

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Most recent members: mequi, jfclark, mrkurtz, BookishRuth, sleep, marvas, JackFrost, DianeS, MerryMary, Polite_Society, yvgr, ladygata, poetontheone, OsideNative, Shortride, varielle, izzybee, de_lunares, lquilter, Godard, Noisy, mandywritesromance, acornell, henkl, wintering, LoveAndDeath, myshelves, punkypower, rtutera, robphoenix — 41 total

Member library: 62,249 books

Most commonly shared books (weighted): Saving graces : images of women in European cemeteries by David Robinson (3), Mozart, from child prodigy to tragic hero by Michel Parouty (3), Venetian Life by William Dean Howells (3), Bookstore Tourism: The Book Addict's Guide To Planning… by Larry Portzline (4), Literary trivia : fun and games for book lovers by Richard Lederer (4), Il Pentamerone; or, The tale of tales by Giambattista Basile (3), Beautiful Death: The Art of the Cemetery (Penguin Studio… by Dean Koontz (3), The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the… by Stuart Kelly (5), Stories in stone by Douglas Keister (4), The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse… by Marilyn Johnson (5)

Created: Nov 29, 2006 by DeadGoodBooks; Language: English