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BOOK/AUTHOR: WHERE ARE THEY BURIED? HOW DID THEY DIE? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy by Tod Benoit
PUBLISHER: Black Dog & Leventhal, NY, NY, Copyright 2003, ISBN 10: 1579122876 ILLUSTRATOR: 50 black-and-white photos
DESCRIPTION: Hardcover, Tan boards and black cloth spine, Bright gilt letter on spine, 560 pages, Heavy book, Approx. 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 1 ¾ inches
CONDITION: FINE, Beautiful condition, Pages white, clean, and binding tight
DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD, Pictorial cover is bright and clean, Unclipped dust jacket, Crease mark from top to bottom of the inside flap
BOOK SYNOPSIS: This unparalleled compilation of profiles of the deceased-from Abbott & Costello to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, from Arthur Ashe to Andy Warhol - offers all of the pertinent details on their lives, deaths, and grave sites, providing a pop-cultural road map for anyone fascinated by celebrity, history, and travel. This is a wide range of famous people - someone for everyone - along with concise and witty life summaries and other useful biographical information.
Fifty photos and a number of informative sidebars (on such topics as how to find the grave of anyone you choose) round out this entertaining look at the "permanent addresses" of our most significant late citizens. And each listing offers concise directions to both the cemetery and the grave itself, an added benefit for tombstone travelers.
This fascinating, enlightening and browsable guide features more than 500 profiles of the lives, deaths, and final resting places of our most influential figures from sports, music, film, television, literature, politics and Generation X. There is a wide range of famous people - someone for everyone - along with concise and witty life summaries and other useful biographical information. Listings include:
Kurt Cobain
John Lennon
Jim Morrison
Gary Cooper
Cary Grant
Vivian Leigh
Aaliyah Haughton
Stuart Sutcliffe
Peter Sellars
Ingrid Bergman
Audrey Hepburn
Dudley Moore
River Pheonix
George Harrison
Walt Disney
Marty Feldman
Lucille Ball
James Dean
Tupac Shakur
Brian Epstein
Glenn Miller
Errol Flynn
Bruce Lee
Stan Laurel
Jimi Hendrix
Jesse Owens
Greta Garbo
Alfred Hitchcock
Marilyn Monroe
Lawrence Welk
Mark Twain
Sonny Bono
Dr. Seuss
Salvador Dali
Mickey Mantle
Marvin Gaye
Ingrid Bergman
William Shakespeare
Andy Kaufman
Bob Crane
Louis Armstrong
Al Capone
Ella Fitzgerald
Mae West
Gertude Stein
and hundreds more
