/lit/ - Literature

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Persepolis is a great perspective on the conflict, and on Iranian life in general. It hits heavy for what it is.

Why do threads 404 so fast here? I just typed out a long-ass response to a thread which was on page 2 and it's gone. Mods with happy trigger fingers?
OP if you're reading this I wanted to say thanks for the recommendation; this is 110% relevant to my interests.

What are are some noteworthy authors who did not live to see the publication of their most famous work? Non-fiction is preferred, but any genre will do.

HARD MODE: NO ANNE FRANK. Way too obvious and /his/fags and /pol/tards will start spamming pregnant porn/Nazi propaganda the moment her name is mentioned. Every other genocide victim is free game though

Guess I'll start the thread off with Ira S. Pettit. A private in the United States Army who served in Company F, 1st Battalion, 11th Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps during the American Civil War. Fought or was present at major actions including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness. Was captured along with his unit and imprisoned at the Confederate stockade in Andersonville, Georgia. The squalid conditions of the camp one might argue foreshadowed the horrors of the Gulags, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen some 80 years later. Ira Pettit died from complications of scurvy on October 10th, 1864 at age 23, some eight months before war's end. His papers and diary were saved by family and comrades imprisoned with him in the camp and published by Jean Ray in 1976, some 112 years after his death.