Dr. Buzz aka J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dr. Buzz aka J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner

Writer Shirley Jackson was #BornOnThisDay, Dec. 14, 1916. Author of 6 novels, 2 memoirs, & over 200 short stories, she is remembered for "The Lottery" (1948). Suffering from smoking, alcohol, pills, & #depression, she passed in 1965 (age 48) Cardiac arrest.#RIP #GoneTooSoon #BOTD https://t.co/j0lN1lHGTr

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Writer E. B. White was #BornOnThisDay, July 11, 1899. Author of children's books, Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952). & The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Battling #Alzheimer's disease, White passed in 1985 (age 86). #RIP #GoneButNeverForgotten #ChildrensBooks #BOTD https://t.co/MDs8ZZAddz

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Book editor Maxwell Perkins was #BornOnThisDay, Sept. 20, 1884.Remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway,F. Scott Fitzgerald, &Thomas Wolfe & also for his amazing editorial skills,such as The Great Gatsby in 1925. Passed in 1947 (age 62)from pneumonia. #RIP #GoneTooSoon https://t.co/HxIIf9tdJC

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Novelist Edith Wharton was #BornOnThisDay, Jan 24, 1862. 1st woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for The Age of Innocence (1921). Her other works; The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911),& my favorites, several ghost stories. Passed in 1937 (age 85) heartattack #RIP https://t.co/GW6pfCYcod

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Writer/novelist Jack Kerouac was #BornOnThisDay March 12, 1922. Books, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur & Desolation Angels. Troubled & battling #alcoholism passed in 1969, (age 47) from abdominal hemorrhage + cirrhosis of the liver. #RIP #gonetoosoon #alcoholawareness #hunk https://t.co/i6wIMKUtC6

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Author, activist, & lecturer Helen Keller was #BornOnThisDay, June 27, 1880. Keller was the first deaf-blind person to earn a B.A. degree & her book, The Story of My Life, was adapted for film & stage as The Miracle Worker. Passed in 1968 (age 87). #RIP #BOTD #GoneButNotForgotten https://t.co/pQM0UsEcpt

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Novelist Jane Austen was #BornOnThisDay, Dec. 16, 1775. Remembered for her 6 novels, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey & Persuasion (1818). Passed in 1817 (age 41) from #cancer #RIP #GoneTooSoon #BOTD https://t.co/lAStmQ022j

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Author Isak Dinesen was #BornOnThisDay April 17, 1885. Best known for Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Out of Africa (1937) & Babette's Feast (1958). Passed in 1962 (Age 77) from malnutrition caused possibly from #anorexia Nervosa. #RIP #GoneButNotForgotten #GoneButNeverForgotten #BOTD https://t.co/uqCrX68Ulw

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Writer/poet Sylvia Plath was #BornOnThisDay, Oct. 27, 1932. Remembered for The Bell Jar (1963) a semi-autobiographical novel. Clinically #depressed for most of her adult life, she passed in 1963 (age 30) from #suicide (gas). #RIP #DepressionIsReal #SuicidePrevention #gonetoosoon https://t.co/yGFdkGKTRY

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Playwright Tennessee Williams, was #BornOnThisDay, March 26, 1911. Plays, The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), & The Night of the Iguana (1961). Passed in 1983 (age 71) from drug OD (Seconal) #RIP https://t.co/PiuMMPYJew