"In the early 1920s, Audrey Munson, America’s first supermodel, became so fed up with fame that she tried to fake her death by paying to run a phony death notice in her local upstate New York newspaper. Her gambit failed; she was so celebrated that the clerk she approached refused to accept the advertisement because he recognized her."
Speaking for the Dead - Longreads
A New York Times veteran considers the art of the obituary and how words give shape to legacies.
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