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Katherine Mansfield
New zealand author (1888–1923).
Born October 14th, 1888 in Wellington.
Died January 9th, 1923 at 34 years old in Avon (tuberculosis).
Katherine Mansfield, the acclaimed New Zealand-born author, died at the young age of 34 on January 9th, 1923. She published her first short story in 1911 and quickly gained favor with the literary world, going on to become one of the most highly respected short story writers in the English language. Her believable characters and sophisticated sequences of feeling and incident rejected conventional plot and formula-based story writing. Katherine was living abroad in France when she died of tuberculosis, and is now remembered for her dedication and influence on the development of the modern short story. She is survived by those that read and appreciate her work.
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Agatha Christie
Born September 15th, 1890 in Ashfield, Torquay.
Died January 12th, 1976 at 85 years old
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche