Jim Morrison, singer and poet, charismatic front-man of The Doors - died this day in 1971, aged 27, in a drug and alcohol-related mishap in a bathtub in Paris….
Photo: Paul Ferrara, December 1967 - near the Houdini House…
cookie the penguin squealing
Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born American writer and lepidopterist - died this day in 1977, aged 78, from bronchitis…
According to his son Dmitri, Nabokov died “with a triple moan of descending pitch. The echo is so strong that I imagine that it is indeed all staged, that he will soon speak again.”
“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.” — Vladimir Nabokov (Pnin)
Dead Writers Club: Happy Deathday Mr. Hemingway!
On July 2nd, in 1961, American writer Ernest Hemingway was found in his Idaho home, with a self inflicted gunshot wound through the head. He was 61 years old and is remembered today as a brilliant writer, a WWI veteran and an acclaimed journalist.
During the twenties, Hemingway became a…
99 
