WE MADE IT! PLAQUE NUMBER 30!
Every night in the month of April we've been jumping from one literary London plaque to another, connecting each plaque to another literary figure commemorated elsewhere in London with a nugget of literary trivia. Creative collaborations, romantic entanglements, feuds, places-in-common, the links have varied, but over the course of the past 30 days we have covered poets, biographers, novelists, humourists, critics, thriller writers and more…
30. BRINGS US FULL CIRCLE! John F. Kennedy, President of the United States 1961 – 1963 lived in London when his father was U.S Ambassador to the Court of St James. Kennedy wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles In Courage, published in 1956. Among his own favorite books, Kennedy listed From Russia With Love, the James Bond thriller written by…
Thanks for reading! Blue Plaque Tiddlywinks will return for another series later in the year.
In the meantime, catch up with all 30 connected Literary London plaque posts here…
1. John F. Kennedy
2. Ian Fleming
3. George Orwell
4. T.S Eliot
5. Ezra Pound
6. Karl Marx
7. Charles Dickens
8. Benjamin Disraeli
9. William Makepeace Thackeray
10. Terence Rattigan
11. George Bernard Shaw
12. J.M Barrie
13. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
14. Dorothy L. Sayers
15. William Hazlitt
16. John Keats
17. Percy Byshe Shelley
18. Mary Shelley
19. Charles Dickens
20. Isaac Rosenberg
21. G.K Chesterton
22. H.G Wells
23. Enid Blyton
24. Daphne Du Maurier
25. George Du Maurier
26. Kingsley Amis
27. Lytton Strachey
28. Graham Greene
29. Robert Louis Stevenson
30. President Kennedy
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