Klaus Mann, Paul Bowles, Gia Carangi, Marcel Proust, Renée Vivien
Born: Klaus Mann (1906)
Died: Paul Bowles (1999), Gia Carangi (1986), Marcel Proust (1922), Renée Vivien (1909)
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18NovDied 199927th anniversary of death
Paul Bowles
The author of “The Sheltering Sky” lived in Tangier for 52 years – in an unconventional marriage with the writer Jane Bowles, each loving their own sex.
18NovDied 198640th anniversary of deathGia Carangi
A model whose brief career challenged fashion’s conventions and whose death exposed the reach of the AIDS crisis.
18NovDied 1922104th anniversary of deathMarcel Proust
The author of “In Search of Lost Time” loved men all his life – and wrote one of literature’s great studies of homosexuality.
18NovDied 1909117th anniversary of deathRenée Vivien
A British-born poet who wrote in French about love between women and became the “Muse of the Violets” of Paris.