Final Chapters: How Famous Authors Died
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    [synopsis] => Famous authors, like everybody else, know that one day they will die. Final Chapters tells the fascinating stories of more than one hundred writers' encounters with death and their attitudes toward the Grim Reaper: fear, uncertainty, or acceptance.

Francis Bacon wrote, "It is as natural to die as to be born," while Socrates told the judges who condemned him, "And now we go our ways, I to die and you to live. Which is better is known to God alone."

Death often came in startling ways for these well-known writers. The playwright Aeschylus was conked by a turtle falling from the sky. Christopher Marlowe was stabbed in a barroom brawl. Moliere collapsed while playing the role of a hypochondriac in one of his plays.

Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-comatose in someone else's clothes shortly before he died. Sherwood Anderson was felled by a toothpick in a martini. Did Dylan Thomas “really” die of eighteen straight whiskeys? And was it a bottle cap or murder that did in Tennessee Williams?
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