Poets & Writers
- John Keats, the English Romantic poet, died of TB in 1821, only a year after his first symptom.
- Robert Lewis Stevenson, author of “Treasure Island” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” suffered from TB throughout his life
- Several members of the talented Bronte family died of TB in the 1800s, among them three writers: Branwell, Anne, Emily (author of “Wuthering Heights”) and Charlotte (author of “Jane Eyre”).
- Henry David Thoreau, author of “Walden,” died of TB at 45 in 1862.
- Feodor Dostoyevsky, the Russian existentialist and novelist, author of “Crime and Punishment” and “The Brothers Karamazov,” died of TB at 60 in 1881. He described TB in “The House of the Dead.”
- Anton Chekhov, the Russian doctor and playwright, author of “The Seagull,” “The Cherry Orchard,” and many short stories, died of TB at 44 in 1904.
- Franz Kafka, author of “Metamorphosis” and “The Trial,” died of TB at 41 in 1924.
- Katherine Mansfield, author of many well-known short stories, died of TB at 35 in 1923, bleeding to death from a TB related lung hemorrhage.
- D.H. Lawrence, poet and author of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” died at 45 in 1930.
- Thomas Wolfe, author of “Look Homeward Angel” and “You Can’t Go Home Again,” died at 37 in 1938 after brain surgery revealed that TB had spread.
- George Orwell, author of “1984” and “Animal Farm,” died of TB at 47 in 1950.
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