"in his last weeks if he had made his peace with God, Thoreau responded, ""I did not know we had ever quarreled."" Aware he was dying, Thoreau's last words were ""Now comes good sailing"", followed by two lone words, ""moose"" and ""Indian"". He died on May 6, 1862, at age 44. Amos Bronson Alcott planned the service and read selections from Thoreau's works, and Channing presented a hymn. Emerson wrote the eulogy spoken at the funeral. Thoreau was buried in the Dunbar family plot; his remains and those of members of his immediate family were eventually moved to Sleepy Hollow"
"Joe Medicine Crow Joseph Medicine Crow (October 27, 1913 – April 3, 2016) was a war chief, author, and historian of the Crow Nation of Native Americans. His writings on Native American history and reservation culture are considered seminal works, but he is best known for his writings and lectures concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. He received the Bronze Star Medal and the Légion d'honneur for service during World War II, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. He was the last surviving war chief of the Crow Nation and the last living Plains Indian"
"he lost his lease on the Bowery in 1978. Indiana grew reclusive in his final years. He died on May 19, 2018, at his home in Vinalhaven, Maine, of respiratory failure at the age of 89. One day before his death, a lawsuit was filed over claims that his caretaker had isolated him from family and friends, and was marketing unauthorized reproductions of his works. Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like ""EAT"", ""HUG"", and, his best known example, ""LOVE"". In his ""EAT"" series, the word blares in paint or light bulbs"
"David. He died in Capri, apparently deliberately overdosing himself on drugs after a long illness. (see ""Impossible Woman: Memoirs of Dottoressa Moore"", ed. by Greene). His last words are reputed to have been: ""Get those fucking nuns away from me."" The Latin inscription on his tombstone, from an ode by Horace, reads: ""Omnes eodem cogimur"", ""We are all driven to the same end"" (i.e., death). H. M. Tomlinson, a contemporary of Douglas's, concluded his 1931 biography by saying that Douglas's kind of prose ""is at present out of fashion"". He compared the writing to that of great English essayists and"
"Howard Moss Howard Moss (January 22, 1922 – September 16, 1987) was an American poet, dramatist and critic. He was poetry editor of ""The New Yorker"" magazine from 1948 until his death and he won the National Book Award in 1972 for ""Selected Poems"". Moss was born in New York City. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award. He is credited with discovering a number of major American poets, including Anne Sexton and Amy Clampitt. W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman co-wrote a famously concise clerihew in his honor: <poem> </poem> According to Edmund White,"
"John Rollin Ridge John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee name: Cheesquatalawny, or Yellow Bird, March 19, 1827 – October 5, 1867), a member of the Cherokee Nation, is considered the first Native American novelist. Born in New Echota, Georgia, he was the son of John Ridge, and the grandson of Major Ridge, both of whom were signatories to the Treaty of New Echota, which Congress affirmed in early 1836, ceding Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi River and ultimately leading to the Trail of Tears. At the age of twelve, Ridge witnessed his father's death at the hands of supporters of Cherokee"
"Last Poems Last Poems (1922) was the last of the two volumes of poems which A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Of the 42 poems there, seventeen were given titles, a greater proportion than in his previous collection, ""A Shropshire Lad"" (1896). Although it was not quite so popular with composers, the majority of the poems there have been set to music. Housman was an emotionally withdrawn man whose closest friend and lifelong unrequited love Moses Jackson had been his roommate when he was at Oxford in 187782. In the 1920s, when Jackson was dying in Canada, Housman compiled"
"Last Poems Last Poems (1922) was the last of the two volumes of poems which A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Of the 42 poems there, seventeen were given titles, a greater proportion than in his previous collection, ""A Shropshire Lad"" (1896). Although it was not quite so popular with composers, the majority of the poems there have been set to music. Housman was an emotionally withdrawn man whose closest friend and lifelong unrequited love Moses Jackson had been his roommate when he was at Oxford in 187782. In the 1920s, when Jackson was dying in Canada, Housman compiled"
"book for children entitled ""Brave Wolf and the Thunderbird"". Medicine Crow continued to write and lecture at universities and public institutions until his death, at the age of 102, on April 3, 2016. He was in hospice care in Billings, Montana. He is survived by his only son Ron Medicine Crow, daughters Vernelle Medicine Crow and Diane Reynolds, and stepdaughter Garnet Watan. Joe Medicine Crow Joseph Medicine Crow (October 27, 1913 – April 3, 2016) was a war chief, author, and historian of the Crow Nation of Native Americans. His writings on Native American history and reservation culture are considered"
"Ishi emerged from the mountains near Oroville, California on August 29, 1911, having lived his entire life outside of the European-American culture. Professors from the University of California, Berkeley read about him and brought him to San Francisco both for study and for his protection. Called the ""last wild Indian"", he had been treated as a curiosity by the public. Under the auspices of the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, director of the Museum of Anthropology, Ishi lived there until his death from tuberculosis (then incurable) in 1916. His language was studied in 1911 by the linguist Edward Sapir, who had previously"
"his house at the head of Lake Ontario (site of what would become the city of Burlington, Ontario) on November 24, 1807 at age 64 after a short illness. His last words, spoken to his adopted nephew John Norton, reflect his lifelong commitment to his people: ""Have pity on the poor Indians. If you have any influence with the great, endeavor to use it for their good."" In 1850, his remains were carried in relays on the shoulders of young men of Grand River to a tomb at Her Majesty's Chapel of the Mohawks in Brantford. Brant acted as a"
"E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin ""E. E."" Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he is attributed in many of his published works, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. Cummings is associated with modernist free-form poetry. Much of his work has original syntax and uses lower case spellings for poetic expression. His use of lower case extended to rendering even the personal pronoun ""I"" as ""i"", as in the phrase ""i shall go"". Cummings was politically"
"Richard Wagamese Richard Wagamese (October 14, 1955 – March 10, 2017) was a Canadian author and journalist. An Ojibwe from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in northwestern Ontario, he was best known for his 2012 novel ""Indian Horse"", which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013 and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of ""Canada Reads"". Wagamese described his first home in his essay ""The Path to Healing"" as a tent hung from a spruce bough. He and his three siblings, abandoned by adults on a binge drinking trip in Kenora, left the"
"death of his son Alvar in an automobile accident in 1933 and his retreat to an isolated hilltop ranch at Big Sur. At this point his writings took a turn into fiction and poetry, much of which he justified as alternative techniques of presenting the ethnographic detail he had collected in accessible format. This was especially true for his bestseller, ""Indian Tales."" Much of his fictional work attempted to recognize and embrace the native ""coyote tales"", or the trickster wisdom inherent in native storytelling. Ezra Pound called him ""the American Ovid"" and William Carlos Williams ""one of the most outstanding"
"Howard Frank Mosher Howard Frank Mosher (June 2, 1942 – January 29, 2017) was an American author of thirteen books: eleven fiction and two non-fiction. Much of his fiction takes place in the mid-20th century and all of it is set in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, a region loosely defined by the three counties in the northeastern corner of the state (Essex, Orleans, and Caledonia). His characters are often quirky, reflecting the distinctive peculiarities of the region's taciturn residents. The community struggle with changing times is often a theme, with the more traditional ways of rural Yankee life coming"
"Ernest Neal Ernest Neal was the 2nd Poet Laureate of Georgia. He was born in Sparta, Georgia (U.S.) in 1858. He lived in Dahlonega for some time, but Calhoun, GA was his home. Neal became Georgia's 2nd Poet Laureate on August 20, 1927. He held the position until his death on January 7, 1943. One of Neal's best known poems,""The Indian's Heart,"" was recited at the dedication of the New Echota Monument near Calhoun. New Echota was the last standing capital of the Cherokee Indians before they were relocated to Oklahoma (i.e. ""The Trail of Tears"")from 1838-1839; President Andrew Jackson"
"he divided his time between California and Mexico. In 1963, he accepted a teaching position at San Francisco State College. He retired from teaching in 1975. Morris won the National Book Award for The ""Field of Vision"" in 1956. His final novel, ""Plains Song"" won the American Book Award in 1981. Morris developed close friendships with several other American authors, most notably John O'Hara and Thornton Wilder, and was a pall bearer at O'Hara's funeral in 1970. He also conducted a weekly correspondence with Scottish author Muriel Spark from 1962 until his death. Morris died of esophageal cancer in Mill"
"Adrian C. Louis Adrian C. Louis (April 24, 1946 – September 9, 2018) was an American author. Hailing from Nevada, Louis was a member of Lovelock Paiute tribe who lived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He has taught at Oglala Lakota College. His novel ""Skins"" (1995) discusses reservation life and issues such as poverty, alcoholism, and social problems and was the basis for the 2002 film, ""Skins"". He also published books of poetry and a collection of short stories, ""Wild Indians and Other Creatures"" (1996). His work was noted for its realism. He died on September 9,"
"Heathcote Williams John Henley Heathcote-Williams (15 November 1941 – 1 July 2017), known as Heathcote Williams, was an English poet, actor, political activist and dramatist. He wrote a number of book-length polemical poems including ""Autogeddon"", ""Falling for a Dolphin"" and ""Whale Nation"", which in 1988 became, according to Philip Hoare, ""the most powerful argument for the newly instigated worldwide ban on whaling."" Williams invented his idiosyncratic ""documentary/investigative poetry"" style which he put to good purpose bringing a diverse range of environmental and political matters to public attention. His last published work, ""American Porn"" was a critique of the American political"
"H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He was virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of horror and weird fiction. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. Among his most celebrated tales are ""The Rats in the Walls"", ""The Call of Cthulhu"", ""At the Mountains of Madness"", ""The Shadow over Innsmouth"", and"
"was the commanding officer of 130 nurses."" Douglas's publications include: ""Indian Art of the United States"" (1941), the Denver Art Museum's ""Leaflet Series"", its ""Material Culture Notes"" (1939-1969). and ""Salome: a poem"" Douglas is buried at the Fairmount Cemetery, Plot 31. He left much of his collections to the Denver Art Museum, including many of his rare books and books on American Indian and anthropological topics. Douglas also had an extensive collection of books on sex and those were donated to the Institute For Sex Research at Indiana University. Select dictionaries and philology books were donated to the Denver Public"
"South American Indian cultures to light, solved the mysteries of Easter Island, taught the world about Voodoo, and defined the United Nations' stand against racism. His books include ""Voodoo,"" ""The History of the Incas"" and ""Easter Island"". Alfred Métraux took his own life by an overdose of barbiturates. On 20 April 1963 Alfred Metraux's corpse was discovered near the Chateaux de la Madeleine in the Vallee de Chevreuse about 30 km outside of Paris. At the time of his death, he was Professor of South American Anthropology at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. Métraux was married three times."
"the American Mind"". Bloom's last book, which he dictated while in the hospital dying, and which was published posthumously, was ""Love and Friendship"", an offering of interpretations on the meaning of love. There is an ongoing controversy over Bloom's semi-closeted homosexuality, possibly culminating, as in Saul Bellow's thinly fictionalized account in Ravelstein, in his death in 1992 from AIDS. Bloom's friends do not deny his homosexuality, but whether he actually died of AIDS remains disputed. Bloom's work is not easily categorized, yet there is a thread that links all of his published material. He was concerned with preserving a philosophical"
"(also about Massive Resistance) in 1964. He also published ""Tarheel Tommy Atkins""(1963) about World War I. He later published ""The American Negro Revolution: From Nonviolence to Black Power, 1963-1967"". His last book was ""The Twentieth Century as I Saw It"" (1981). Retiring from both farming and publishing in 1966 (as President Lyndon B. Johnson began implementing the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and funding desegregating schools), Muse and his wife moved to the newly developed Reston, Virginia. He died at his home two decades later, and was interred at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church cemetery in Prince William County. He"
"Milton Murayama Milton Atsushi Murayama (April 10, 1923 – July 27, 2016) was an American novelist and playwright. A Nisei, he wrote the 1975 novel ""All I Asking for Is My Body"", which is considered a classic novel of the experiences of Japanese Americans in Hawaii before and during World War II. Murayama was born in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii to Japanese immigrant parents from Kyushu. When he was about 12, his family moved to a sugarcane plantation camp at Pu'ukoli'i. (This was a company town of several hundred workers and their families that no longer exists.) Murayama's experiences there provided"
"Jack Moses Jack Moses (12 January 1861 – 10 July 1945) was an Australian outback bush poet who wrote the poems """"Bullocky Bill"""" and """"The Dog Sat on the Tuckerbox"""" and many other famous verses from which the well-known Dog on the Tuckerbox monument and the Nine and Five Mile legend of Gundagai were inspired. Moses' poems were considered by Gundagai Shire Council to be of extreme significance as they immortalised the historic Australian town of Gundagai and influenced the famous Australian iconic monument, the Dog on the Tuckerbox, five miles from Gundagai, to come into being. A street was"
"David Mura David Mura (born 1952) is an American author, poet, novelist, playwright, critic and performance artist. He has published two memoirs, ""Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei"", which won the Josephine Miles Book Award from the Oakland PEN and was listed in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and ""Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity"" (1995). His most recent book of poetry is ""The Last Incantation"" (2014); his other poetry books include ""After We Lost Our Way"", which won the National Poetry Contest, ""The Colors of Desire"" (winner of the"
"Wright Morris Wright Marion Morris (January 6, 1910 – April 25, 1998) was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms. Morris was born in Central City, Nebraska; his boyhood home is on the National Register of Historic Places. His mother, Grace Osborn Morris, died six days after he was born. His father, William Henry Morris, worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. After Grace's death, Wright was cared for by a nanny, until his father"
"much for sappy personal writing, where writers tell me what they feel about things rather than what they know about things."" Richard Marius Richard Curry Marius (July 29, 1933 – November 5, 1999) was an American academic and writer. He was a scholar of the Reformation, novelist of the American South, speechwriter, and teacher of writing and English literature at Harvard University. He was widely published, leaving behind major biographies of Thomas More and Martin Luther, four novels set in his native Tennessee, several books on writing, and a host of scholarly articles for academic journals and mainstream book reviews."
"he may have been referring to Sarah Elmira Royster, to whom he had recently proposed. He did not know what had happened to his trunk of belongings which, it transpired, had been left behind at the Swan Tavern in Richmond. Moran reported that Poe's final words were, ""Lord, help my poor soul"" before dying on October 7, 1849. Because Poe did not have visitors, Moran was probably the only person to see the author in his last days. Even so, his credibility has been questioned repeatedly, if not considered altogether untrustworthy. Throughout the years after Poe's death, his story changed"
"wrote a letter describing his experience: Whittier spent the last winters of his life, from 1876 to 1892, at Oak Knoll, the home of his cousins in Danvers, Massachusetts. Whittier spent the summer of 1892 at the home of a cousin in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, where he wrote his last poem (a tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.) and where he was captured in a final photograph. He died at this home on September 7, 1892, and was buried in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Whittier's first two published books were ""Legends of New England"" (1831) and the poem ""Moll Pitcher"" (1832)."
"the last line he wrote was ""The cowboy will never die."" In all, he wrote and illustrated 23 books, 5 of which were made into feature films. His later years were spent on his ranch at Pryor Creek, Montana and at his Billings home on Smoky Lane. In the late 1930s he lived in the California high desert on the Godshall C Bar G Ranch. The ranch overlooked the Mojave River and is now within the boundaries of the Town of Apple Valley, California. While on the ranch, he wrote at least one book,""Flint Spears"" He died of alcoholism in"
"talked about suicide. Russ Salamon, a friend of Levy and fellow Cleveland poet, gave Levy large stacks of books, replenishing them when necessary, knowing Levy would finish the texts, and therefore remain a little while longer on this earth. For the last three years of his life, Levy was fond of saying he would like to leave the city, the country, and go to ""Israel"" (is real). Levy is most known for ""The North American Book of the Dead"", ""Cleveland Undercovers"", and ""Suburban Monastery Death Poem"", and in the last years of the 20th century his ""Tombstone as a Lonely"