Bess Lovejoy – Jill Grinberg Literary Management

Bess Lovejoy

Bess Lovejoy is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, The Believer, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Boston Globe, The Public Domain Review, Atlas Obscura, and many other outlets. She is the author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses, which was named an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and has been translated into three foreign languages. She was an editor for Schott’s Almanac, the Smithsonian website, and Mental Floss. She is based in Seattle.

Agent

Jill Grinberg

Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses

For some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer’s office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs, and nether regions have embarked on voyages that crisscross the globe and stretch the imagination.

Counterfeiters tried to steal Lincoln’s corpse. Einstein’s brain went on a cross-country road trip. And after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy—which they drank.

From Alexander the Great to Elvis Presley, and from Beethoven to Dorothy Parker, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious and horrifying adventures of their corpses, and traces the evolution of cultural attitudes toward death.

Praise for Rest in Pieces

“Death is only the beginning in Schott’s Almanac writer and researcher Lovejoy’s marvelously macabre chronicle of some of history’s most well-traveled cadavers.” –Kirkus

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication Date

March 12, 2013

Age Category

Adult

Genre

Nonfiction

Rights

JGLM