Death Be Not Proud (book)

Death Be Not Proud

First edition (published by Harper & Brothers]
Author	John Gunther
Language	English
Publisher	Harper & Brothers
Publication date	1949

Death Be Not Proud is a 1949 memoir by American journalist John Gunther. The book describes the decline and death of Gunther's son, Johnny, due to a brain tumor. The title comes from Holy Sonnet X by John Donne, also known from its first line as the poem Death Be Not Proud.

At the time the book was published in the late 1940s, memoirs about illness and grief were uncommon.^[1]