Ruth Draper [SEP] cause of death
through her connection with Lauro De Bosis, a young Italian poet and writer who died in 1931 after a daring flight over Rome during which he threw thousands of leaflets denouncing Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party.
Death.
Ruth Draper died on December 30, 1956, of an apparent heart attack, just hours after giving a performance on Broadway at the Playhouse Theatre. Draper's family had a summer home in Islesboro, Maine, which she purchased from her family and where she spent increasing amounts of time in her
and artist, her works are included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York and New-York Historical Society collections. A preservationist, she was active with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Death.
She died on January 21, 2008, in Manhattan at 102 years of age.
Published works.
- "The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-Portrait of an Actress, 1920–1956" Dorothy Warren (Editor), Sir John Gielgud (Foreword), 1979