Theodora Keogh, 88, died January 5, 2008.
According to London’s Daily Telegraph, Ms. Keogh was the granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt and "the author of nine novels, all of them dark in tone and many of them peopled with sinister figures."
Ms. Keogh's obituary reports a "life well lived" and points out that she grew up on the upper east side of New York City carrying a knife and swimming nude. At one point she was a debutante, but she left that lifestyle to briefly joining a ballet company.
She wrote nine scandalous novels, and without so much as eyeing a review, abruptly abandoned writing.
Most notably, her obituary reports that " . . . she lived at the Chelsea Hotel [in Manhattan], where she kept a margay (a South American tiger-cat) for company. One night, after she had drunk too much and fallen asleep, it chewed off one of her ears."
At the time of her passing, Ms. Keogh lived in North Carolina on 19 acres where she had tried to keep chickens. She gave up the hobby because the coyotes kept eatting them.
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