Talk:Poppy Cannon

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Apparently Poppy Cannon was:

• the second wife of Walter Francis White, notable for being the white wife of a black leader of the NAACP
• a 1950s cookbook author see [1]
• the food editor of the Ladies Home Journal? See http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0066209730&tc=ai
• are the details mentioned here [2] authentic?

Sounds like a remarkable and notable person to me.

Presumably the 1950s Poppy Cannon is not the same person as the 1980s costume designer [* the set and constume designer [3], because of the difference in dates... -- Karada 00:32, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Then perhaps this should be turned into a disambig page? The subject of the existing article could be mentioned then, just not linked to. -- Francs2000 00:48, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Poppy Cannon the food writer certainly seems to be the one who is most commonly referenced on the web, so I don't think we need any form of disambig unless the more recent Poppy Cannon becomes notable enough to have her own article.

One web-based source describes Cannon (the food writer) as having died by suicide [4], by jumping from the window of her Fifth Avenue apartment. However, I cannot find any other source to confirm this, so I have removed this from the article. This unverfied report, combined with the fact that she would now be over 100 years old if still alive, suggest that she is quite probably not with us anymore. Can anyone confirm a date of death, or show that, as of 2006, she is still alive? -- Karada 08:19, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Year of birth

The Yale University link seems to give her year of birth as 1907. Where is the 1905 date from? Is it more reliable? -- GRuban 13:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I've changed the date to match. -- Anon.

[edit] Poppy Cannon's Death

Poppy Cannon did die by committing suicide. She jumped out of the fifth story window as commented above. This event was referenced in "Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America" by Laura Shapiro, copyright 2004 by Penguin Books.