Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Willard Motley, 52, chronicler of Chicago's Skid Row, a Negro who refused to write about his own race (he once called James Baldwin "a professional Negro"), instead peopled his two best-known novels (Knock on Any Door, Let No Man Write My Epitaph) with a collection of whoring, murdering, dope-addicted slum whites as if to prove that Negroes have no monopoly on crime or misery; of gangrene of the intestines from a neglected infection; in Mexico City...
...could be his own epitaph...
...Illinois, Percy has become the leader of the "undecideds." He has neither supported nor abandoned Goldwaterism. He won the Illinois primary because he would not support Goldwater; yet when traditional Republicans were in need of a leader to defeat Goldwater prior to San Francisco, Chuck Percy wrote his own epitaph. Had Percy stood up and been counted, he would have lived long after his forthcoming November defeat...
...apartment at Sandwich, where he was holidaying after reading proof on his latest, and last, James Bond adventure, The Man With the Golden Gun. He suffered a second heart attack, and four hours after he reached a hospital at Canterbury, Ian Fleming died. He had already spoken his own epitaph. "Oh," he said, "It's all been a tremendous lark...
Shortly before his death at 25, he wrote, in effect, his own epitaph...