How Did William Rivers Pitt Die? Truthout Senior Editor/Lead Columnist,
Jessica Burns
Updated on January 18, 2026
What caused William Rivers’s demise?
When Rivers Pitt passed away suddenly on June 4, 1922, from a strangulated hernia at the age of 58, he was mourned as much by certain corners of the literary world, as of the medical community, for his late flowering had been one of the few positive outcomes of the war.
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