Where Are They Buried? How Did They Die?

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Where Are They Buried? How Did They Die? is a browsable guide to more than 500 profiles of the lives, deaths, and final resting places of memorable figures from sports, music, film, television, literature, and politics. Listings include: Mark Twain, Sonny Bono, Dr. Seuss, Salvador Dali, Mickey Mantle, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Ingrid Bergman, William Shakespeare, Andy Kaufman, Bob Crane, Louis Armstrong, Walt Disney, Errol Flynn, Al Capone, Ella Fitzgerald, Mae West, Gertude Stein, and hundreds more. ^[1]

Author Tod Benoit began traveling the country in 1994 visiting the gravesides of celebrities and other well known people from his research. In the introduction, Benoit drives home the point that while macabre for some, knowing where our heroes are laid to rest is fascinating for many. The author tells of a celebrity encounter along the way where he met Bob Dylan along a Mississippi highway. Dylan shied away from other attention but when the author struck up a conversation about Hank Williams' gravesite, Dylan became interested in his stories and asked for the name of the cemetery.

The book is organized into chapters covering film and television personalities, sports heroes, notable woman, musicians, politicians, infamous newsmakers. The appendix gives advice on the research required to find where someone is buried.

Each listing offers concise directions to both the cemetery and the grave itself, an added benefit for tombstone travelers.