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Originally Posted by Fbone
Laura Elizabeth Howes Richards also passed in 1943. She wrote mostly children's books and poetry. She won the 1917 Pulitzer for a biography. She wrote over 90 books.
What I find funny is she published her first children's book in 1878. So that means it was in copyright for 135 years in the life+70 countries. I wonder if that is a modern day record.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_E._Richards
I think you need to choose a non-US candidate since her US copyrights for all her pre-1923 books have expired there long since and therefore (I think) in most or all of the current Life+70 countries. Also the British Copyright Act that gave the UK Life+50 was only passed in 1906 so her very earliest books may never have had a UK copyright.
Experts in round the world copyright laws may now laugh and confute me.