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ITT: Writers who died before their time or were screwed by fate.

Joyce Kilmer could have been the american Chesterton, but he he was killed in WW1.

>> No.1820708

HPL

>> No.1821007

>>1820702
EVERYONE was killed in WWI.

>> No.1821029

>>1821007
I wasn't killed in WW1.

>> No.1821047

>>1821029
Uh... wait for the ending, anon. You may be surprised.

Seriously, you died in WWI, just like the rest of us. It'll make sense, don't worry

Life is directed by M. Night Shyamalan and I spelt that name wrong, didn't I?

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1821088

WHY OH WHY CAMUS DIDNT YOU TAKE THE TRAIN OH SWEET TAPDANCING CHRIST CUNTS WHYYYYYYY

>> No.1821099

stephen crane
keats

>> No.1821134

Some Americans here:

Stephen Crane, died at 28.
Frank Norris, died at 32.
Edgar Allan Poe, died at 40.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, died at 44.
Nathanael West, died at 37.
Flannery O'Connor, died at 39.
Charles Brockden Brown, died at 39.
John Kennedy Toole, died at 31. (Suicide)
Sylvia Plath, died at 30. (Suicide)

>> No.1821158

Jack London (40)
Robert E. Howard (30)
HP Lovecraft (46)
Kerouac (47)

>> No.1821164 [DELETED] 

>>1821158

>> No.1821167 [DELETED] 

>>1821164

>> No.1821170
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1821170

You know who...

>> No.1821182

>>1821170
>>1821170
>Writers who died before their time or were screwed by fate.
>died before their time
>screwed by fate

this weak willed faggot fits in to neither of these categories.

>> No.1821188

>>1821182
having hot pickle juice and squirrel pee in your brain chemistry is a lousy hand to be dealt

but ofc you knew that

>> No.1821190

>>1821188

wat does that even mean

>> No.1821194

Federico García Lorca (38) - murdered by gun

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1821200

>>1821188
>>1821188
>implying depression, although a genetic trait, is not also subject to the diaphesis stress model

>> No.1821214

>>1821170
No discernible talent, that's why he killed himself.

>> No.1821412

>>1821158

>Kerouac

As much as I love Kerouac's "On The Road" (no, I am 25 years old, no I have a respectable job) he died waaaay past his time and he wasn't exactly screwed by fate (it takes A LOT of years of hard drinking to destroy your liver)

>> No.1821449

Wilfrid Owen died before his time.

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1821454

Hart Crane at the age of thirty two. Jumped overboard into the Gulf of Mexico. His body was never recovered.

>> No.1821459

>>1821449
This. Terrific poet. Claimed by the trenches of Hell.