Obituaries, Death Notices, and Guides to Burial Places of Notables

Related Reading

Billets de sortie, by Robert Poulet. A compilation of French language obituaries on 20th-century literary figures.

Come to Judgment, by Alden Whitman. A collection of obituaries that appeared in The New York Times during the mid-20th century.

Obituary book, by Alden Whitman. Another collection from The New York Times from the 20^th century.

Dead beat: Lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasure of obituaries by Marilyn Johnson (we don’t own this but branches have it)

Oxford book of death, an anthology of writings on death with a topical arrangement (e.g. hour of death, mourning, hereafters)