Death Be Not Proud (book)

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Death Be Not Proud is a 1949 memoir by American journalist John Gunther. The book describes the decline and death of Gunther's son, Johnny, due to a brain tumor. The title comes from Holy Sonnet X by

First edition (published by Harper & Brothers]

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"Sonnet X", also known by its opening words as "Death Be Not Proud", is a sonnet, or fourteen-line poem, by English poet John Donne, one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seven

Death Be Not Proud (book)

…and death of Gunther's son, Johnny, due to a brain tumor. The title comes from Holy Sonnet X by John Donne, also known from its first line as the poem "Death Be Not Proud". At the time the book was published in the late 1940s, memoirs about illness and grief were uncommon…

Portrait of John Donne