To write and rest in peace in L.A.

Although Truman Capote was identified with New York, he died in Bel-Air; later some of his remains were “ash-napped,” returned and put away for safekeeping at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.  (Library of Congress / Getty Images)

Theodore Dreiser, author of “An American Tragedy,” was one of America’s great novelists. He spent his last decade in Los Angeles and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Charles Fletcher Lummis, author of “A Tramp Across the Continent” and an early, rollicking city pioneer, had his ashes placed in a niche at the home he hand-built, El Alisal, in Highland Park.  (Rick Meyer / Los Angeles Times)

Ray Bradbury, author of “Fahrenheit 451” and other science fiction classics, died at 91 in 2012. He’s buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Louis L’Amour published the first of his many westerns, “Hondo,” in 1953. He had 200 million books in print when he died in 1988. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Sidney Sheldon, who was best known for blockbuster novels such as “The Sands of Time,” also won a 1947 screenwriting Oscar, a 1959 Tony, and was a prolific TV producer. His grave is in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Iceberg Slim, whose real name was Robert Maupin Beck, was the author of “Pimp,” a bestselling pulp novel about life on the street. Beck died in 1992 and is entombed at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Edgar Rice Burroughs had his ashes buried beneath this walnut tree in front of his office in Tarzana. The town was named after his famous creation, Tarzan.  (Richard Derk / Los Angeles Times)

Ethologist Edward S. Curtis created the 20-volume set “The North American Indian.” His marker is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)