Caroline Knapp

1959–2002 (age 43)

Writer

Biography

Caroline Knapp (1959-2002) wrote with honesty about addiction and recovery in the bestselling Drinking: A Love Story, offering solace to readers facing their own struggles.

She also penned essays that celebrated friendship and the healing power of animals, reminding us to treat every life with kindness and compassion.

Did you know Caroline Knapp?

Help us tell their story. Share a memory, upload a gravestone photo, or correct any details.

Also buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807–1882 (age 75)
Mount Auburn Cemetery
One of the most popular American poets of the 19th century, author of Paul Revere's Ride and The Song of Hiawatha.
Winslow Homer
1836–1910 (age 74)
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America, best known for his marine subjects.
William Appleton Burnham
1852–1922 (age 70)
Mount Auburn Cemetery
William Appleton Burnham (1852-1922) was a New England resident of prominence in the late 1800s.
Maud Howe Elliott
1854–1948 (age 94)
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Maud Howe Elliott (1854-1948) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and social reformer buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Charles Sumner
1811–1874 (age 63)
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Charles Sumner was a prominent Boston abolitionist and U.S. Senator who lived from 1811 to 1874.
William T. G. Morton
1819–1868 (age 49)
Mount Auburn Cemetery
William T. G. Morton was an American dentist and surgeon who pioneered the use of ether anesthesia in surgery.

Other notable writers

Henry Adams
1838–1918 (age 80)
Rock Creek Cemetery
American writer and descendant of two U.S. presidents, buried under the Adams Memorial.
Catherine Cate Coblentz
1897–1951 (age 54)
Rock Creek Cemetery
Writer and wife of physicist William Coblentz.
Delia Bacon
1811–1859 (age 48)
Grove Street Cemetery
Delia Bacon (1811-1859) was an American writer and literary scholar known for her controversial Shakespeare authorship t...