Jump to content

List of recluses

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by DemonDays64 Bot (talk | contribs) at 19:36, 17 April 2020 (HTTPS security. Tell me if there's an issue with my edit. (via WP:JWB)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This is a list of notable recluses, people who shun society and most other people. Excluded are religious hermits.

Name Year of birth Year of death Description
Syd Barrett[1][2] 1946 2006 Former leader of the band Pink Floyd
Jack Chick[3] 1924 2016 Cartoonist and publisher
Huguette Clark[4][5] 1906 2011 Heiress and philanthropist
Emily Dickinson[6][7] 1830 1886 American poet
Eliza Emily Donnithorne[8][9] 1826 1886 Australian eccentric, rumored model for Miss Havisham in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Bobby Fischer[10][11] 1943 2008 Former world chess champion
Greta Garbo[12][13][14][15] 1905 1990 Movie star
João Gilberto[16] 1931 2019 Brazilian singer and composer
Glenn Gould[17] 1932 1982 Canadian pianist
Alexander Grothendieck[18][19][20] 1928 2014 German-French mathematician
Howard Hughes[12][21] 1905 1976 American business magnate, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist
Ted Kaczynski[22][23] 1942 American terrorist known as the Unabomber
Stanley Kubrick[24] 1928 1999 American film director
Harper Lee[25] 1926 2016 Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
Terrence Malick[26] 1943 American film director
Cormac McCarthy[27][28] 1933 American novelist, playwright and screenwriter
Pordenone Montanari[29][30] 1937 Painter, sculptor and philosopher
Edvard Munch[31][32] 1863 1944 Norwegian painter of The Scream
Leo Ornstein[33][34][35] 1895 2002 Avant-garde pianist and composer
Bettie Page[36] 1923 2008 American pin-up model
Grigori Perelman[37][38] 1966 Russian mathematician
Thomas Pynchon[25] 1937 American novelist
Marcel Proust[39] 1871 1922 French novelist of In Search of Lost Time
Yves Saint Laurent[40][41] 1936 2008 French fashion designer
J. D. Salinger[12][25] 1919 2010 Author of The Catcher in the Rye
Arthur Scargill[42] 1938 Leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain) during a year-long strike in 1984-1985
Phil Spector[43] 1940 Record producer and songwriter
Sly Stone[44][45] 1943 Musician, songwriter and record producer
Nikola Tesla[46] 1856 1943 Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist and futurist
Ida Wood[47] 1838 1932 Remained in seclusion in a New York City hotel suite with two relatives for decades.

Fictional characters

Name Work Author Notes
Miss Havisham[48] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Boo Radley[49] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee A recluse created by a famous recluse.
The Grinch[50] How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and its adaptations Dr. Seuss
Shrek[51] Shrek and its adaptations William Steig

References

  1. ^ Audrey Gillan (12 July 2006). "Rock's crazy diamond dies after 30 years as a recluse". The Guardian. London.
  2. ^ "13 Rock Stars Who Disappeared". Rolling Stone. 26 September 2012.
  3. ^ Harriet Sherwood (25 October 2016). "Jack Chick, controversial evangelical cartoonist, dies aged 92". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Matt Schudel (24 May 2011). "Huguette Clark, copper heiress and recluse, dies at 104". The Washington Post.
  5. ^ "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune". 2014-03-14.
  6. ^ "Emily Dickinson - Top 10 Most Reclusive Celebrities - TIME". TIME. 3 June 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  7. ^ "Emily Dickinson". University of Illinois at Chicago. 3 September 1999. Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  8. ^ J. S. Ryan. Donnithorne, Eliza Emily (1826–1886). Australian Dictionary of Biography.
  9. ^ Yatman, Brian (16 December 2014). "Sydney eccentric: Eliza Emily Donnithorne". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  10. ^ Christine Toomey (20 April 2008). "Bobby Fischer's final manoeuvre". The Sunday Times. London.
  11. ^ Stephen Moss (19 January 2008). "Death of a madman driven sane by chess". The Guardian.
  12. ^ a b c Andrew Martin (31 January 2010). "How to be a recluse". The Independent.
  13. ^ "Greta Garbo: Letters reveal solitary life of Hollywood star". BBC News. 4 December 2017.
  14. ^ Alex Duval Smith (11 September 2005). "Lonely Garbo's love secret is exposed". The Guardian.
  15. ^ "Greta Garbo". National Portrait Gallery.
  16. ^ Aaron Cohen (31 July 2003). "Bossa nova legend has his way at Ravinia". Chicago Tribune. He may be Brazil's foremost recluse.
  17. ^ Carola Vyhnak (7 October 2016). "Once Upon A City: Eccentric recluse was our greatest musician". The Star. The reclusive genius kept the behind-the-scenes aspects of his life tightly under wraps and was even rumoured to have fired a cleaning lady for her loose tongue.
  18. ^ Matt Schudel (15 November 2014). "Alexander Grothendieck, mathematical genius who went into self-exile, dies at 86". The Washington Post.
  19. ^ John Lichfield (15 January 2016). "Alexander Grothendieck: Legal battle over 'scribblings' of 20th century's 'greatest mathematician'". The Independent.
  20. ^ Harvey Shoolman (25 November 2014). "Alexander Grothendieck obituary". The Guardian.
  21. ^ "1976: Billionaire Howard Hughes dies". BBC. 5 April 1976. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  22. ^ Alston Chase (June 2000). "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber". The Atlantic Online. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  23. ^ "On this day: 1996: 'Unabomber' suspect arrested". BBC. 3 April 1996. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  24. ^ "Stanley Kubrick (obituary)". The Daily Telegraph. 8 March 1999.
  25. ^ a b c Paul Harris (5 February 2006). "Mockingbird author steps out of shadows". The Observer. London.
  26. ^ Eric Benson (April 2017). "The Not-So-Secret Life of Terrence Malick". Texas Monthly.|
  27. ^ Richard B. Woodward (19 April 1992). "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction". The New York Times.
  28. ^ Martin Chilton (19 February 2016). "The late Harper Lee and five other reclusive authors". The Telegraph. London.
  29. ^ Alberge, Dalya. "Italian recluse Pordenone Montanari, aged 73, hailed as a genius of art". Guardian Observer. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  30. ^ Rees, Jasper. "In old Italian home, new owner finds a secret master". The National. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
  31. ^ Lawrence Warick; Elaine Warick. "A Study of Loss, Grief and Creativity". Michigan State University. Retrieved 11 August 2004.
  32. ^ "A Celebrated Artist-Recluse". The New York Times. 14 February 1937.
  33. ^ Michael Broyles; Denise Von Glahn (21 September 2007). Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253348944. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014.
  34. ^ Journal of American history. Organization of American Historians. 1994. p. 616.
  35. ^ Stearns, David. "Composer Leo Ornstein's long-delayed return". The Inquirer. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  36. ^ "1950s pinup model Bettie Page dead at 85". CNN. 19 February 2016.
  37. ^ Forrest, Brett (22 August 2012). "Searching for Grigori Perelman, Russia's reclusive maths genius". Telegraph. London. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  38. ^ "Annals of Mathematics: Manifold Destiny". New Yorker. Retrieved 28 August 2006.
  39. ^ "Top 10 Most Reclusive Celebrities". Time magazine. 3 June 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  40. ^ Julie Carpenter (22 January 2002). "Yves was no Saint". The Daily Express.
  41. ^ Charlie Porter (8 January 2002). "Spirit and wit fades from fashion front". The Guardian.
  42. ^ Harris, John (28 February 2014). "In search of Arthur Scargill: 30 years after the miners' strike". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  43. ^ Tim Cumming (2 November 2001). "I want to be alone". The Independent. London.
  44. ^ Andy Greene (26 September 2012). "13 Rock Stars Who Disappeared: Sly Stone". Rolling Stone.
  45. ^ David Kamp (3 July 2007). "Sly Stone's Higher Power". Vanity Fair.
  46. ^ Tom de Castella (10 September 2012). "Nikola Tesla: The patron saint of geeks?". BBC New Magazine. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  47. ^ Karen Abbott (January 23, 2013). "Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth". Smithsonian.
  48. ^ Marjorie Kehe (February 7, 2012). "Charles Dickens: His 10 most memorable characters - 4. Miss Havisham of "Great Expectations"". The Christian Science Monitor.
  49. ^ James Walton (March 4, 2006). "First person singular: found! The great literary recluse". The Daily Telegraph.
  50. ^ Janet Davison (December 18, 2016). "'You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch,' but you've lasted 50 years on TV: Here's why". CBC News.
  51. ^ Janet Davison (December 18, 2016). "'You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch,' but you've lasted 50 years on TV: Here's why". CBC News.


Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_recluses&oldid=951562153"