OUR NEW SERIES! Welcome to Plaque Tiddlywinks!
Every night in the month of April we'll be 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 will vary, but over the course of 30 days we'll have covered poets, biographers, novelists, humourists, critics, thriller writers and more until we have arrived full circle back at plaque number one!
If you can guess what our next plaque might be, feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of the post.
1. 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 favourite books, Kennedy listed From Russia With Love, the James Bond thriller written by...
We'll be back tomorrow night with our next Plaque Tiddlywink. In the meantime, here's where to find tonight's plaque at 14 Princes Gate SW7...
The London Walks Podcast on Literary London Part One...
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