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    Department of Unusual Deaths: What U.S. literary figure, closely associated with the Midwest, and whose most famous work could conceivably be associated with alcohol, expired as a result of ingesting something while imbibing at a social event?

    Question #99163. Asked by lanfranco. (Sep 04 08 5:39 PM)


    elburcher

    		Sherwood Anderson

    Anderson died in Panama at the age of 64. The cause of death was peritonitis after he accidentally swallowed a piece of a toothpick embedded in a martini olive at a party. He was buried at Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. His epitaph reads, "Life, Not Death, is the Great Adventure."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Anderson

    Sep 04 08, 7:11 PM
    lanfranco

    		Terrific, elburcher.

    I was tempted to suggest, as a clue, that people should think about my native state of Ohio, but not everyone knows that I am an Ohioan. "Winesburg, Ohio" is surely Anderson's best-known work.

    Now, the vault offers you an unbreakable silver toothpick, which should protect you from peritonitis, as long as you avoid swallowing it whole.

    Sep 04 08, 7:30 PM

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