Where Are They Buried (Revised and Updated): How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy

by Tod Benoit

Updated with dozens of entries of the newly dead and now in paperback, an irresistible and browsable guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of the world's most influential figures.

This unparalleled compilation of profiles of the deceased—from Abbott and Costello to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, from Arthur Ashe to Paul Newman, offers all the pertinent details on how they lived and died. It is also a detailed atlas of where they are buried.

Each entry in this fascinating book includes an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts, a detailed description of each subject's death, and very specific directions to the location and site of the grave. Fifty photos and informative sidebars (on such topics as how to find anyone's grave) round out this indispensable field guide to the "permanent addresses" of the world's most significant late citizens.

New additions to the roster of final resting places • Tim Russert • Heath Ledger • Norman Mailer • Anna Nicole Smith • George Carlin • Rosa Parks • Hunter S. Thompson • Paul Newman • Katharine Hepburn … and many more

560 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2009

Reviews

[Steve Gores · Rating 3 out of 5]

The selection of dead celebrities in this book is very random, including most of the cast of The Wizard of Oz, some European artists and actors, old-time American criminals, etc. Not that the mini-bios aren't fun to read, but a lot of these people were famous in a far-off yesteryear, so readers under 40 may find that many profiles are irrelevant to them. That said, if you like old dead people and want to visit their graves, this is the guide for you! Benoit gives very specific directions within each cemetery, unless the dead celebrity was cremated and their ashes scattered. There is a 2019 edition of this book, but this one is still viable, since the dead don't move too often, and their lives are frozen in time.