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'Not My Time to Die'

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Category: Social
Start date: 13 Oct 2012 12:00 AM
End date: 13 Oct 2012 02:00 PM
Street / Location: 5211 North Clark Street
City / town: Chicago
Country: Illinois, USA
Organizer: Swedish American Museum
Name: Karin Abercrombie
Email: kabercrombie@samac.org
Phone: 773.728.8111
Homepage: www.SwedishAmericanMuseum.org

Not My Time to Die is a nonfiction book about the Swedes on board the Titanic who made up the third largest ethnic group among the ship’s passengers. It was published on April 15, 2012, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking. Lilly says she decided to write the book while she was working on Hero of the Titanic because nobody outside of Sweden had written a book about the Swedes aboard the Titanic and because she was encouraged by Titanic scholars to write such a book. The book is ideal for anyone interested in the Titanic, the Swedish people, or both. It describes what happened with the Titanic, Sweden’s condition in 1912, and the reasons the Swedish passengers decided to make the trip. Profiles of each of the 123 Swedish passengers and the stories of the 34 Swedish survivors are covered through the 295 pages of Not My Time to Die. The work contains a wealth of new information including material previously unknown to English-speakers which Lilly translated, and stories about third-class passengers who have received little media attention.