The Pianist is a memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman in which he describes his life in Warsaw in occupied Poland during World War II.
 After being forced with his family to live in the Warsaw ghetto, Szpilman manages to avoid deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp, and from his hiding places around the city witnesses the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw uprising (the rebellion by the Polish resistance) the following year.
 He survives in the ruined city with the help of friends and strangers, including Wilm Hosenfeld, a German army captain who admires his piano playing.
Bao Zhao (; c. 414September 466) was an early medieval Chinese poet, writer, and official known for his "shi" poetry, "fu" rhapsodies, and parallel prose.
 Bao's best known surviving work is his ""Fu" on the Ruined City" ("Wú chéng fù" 蕪城賦 ), a long "fu" rhapsody on the ruined city of Guangling.
Ruined City, is a 1938 novel by Nevil Shute, published by Cassell in the UK and in the US under the title Kindling by William Morrow.
The Lost City (B4) is a "Dungeons & Dragons" adventure module by Tom Moldvay.
 It was first published by TSR in 1982 and was designed as a stand-alone adventure for use with the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set".
 The working title for the module was "The Lost City of Cynidecia".
 Moldvay designed the module to give novice Dungeon Masters experience fleshing out adventures and is only partially complete.
 The module is described as a low-level scenario, in which the only hope of the player characters' survival can be found in a ruined city slowly rising out of the sands.
 The adventure is set inside a huge step pyramid, with the lower pyramid only sketched out and the city itself described with a list of the major areas and a map.
 The adventure’s main villain is Zargon, a giant one-eyed monster and his minions.
 The entire double pyramid, not including the city, contains over 100 rooms.
Dojran (Macedonian: Дојран ] ) was a city on the west shore of Dojran Lake in the south-east part of the Republic of Macedonia.
 Today, it is a collective name for two villages on the territory of the ruined city: Nov (New) Dojran (settled from the end of World War I to World War II) and Star (Old) Dojran, which contains both old ruins and recent construction, especially hotels, resorts and restaurants.
 Dojran is 170 km from Skopje, 59 km from Strumica and some 30 km from Gevgelija.
 The nearest airports are Thessaloniki International Airport and Skopje Airport.
 Dojran's mayor is currently Borce Stamov.
 The old city of Dojran was totally ruined during the First World War and after the Second World War the modern villages were established.
Mixco Viejo (/ˈmisko ˈβieχo/ ) ("Old Mixco"), occasionally spelt Mixcu Viejo, is an archaeological site in the north east of the Chimaltenango department of Guatemala, some 50 km to the north of Guatemala City and 4 km from the junction of the rivers Pixcaya and Motagua.
 It is a moderate sized ruined city of the Postclassic Maya civilization.
Typhoon Nanmadol, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Mina, was the strongest tropical cyclone in 2011 to hit the Philippines and also the first of the year to directly impact Taiwan and the rest of the Republic of China (ROC).
 It was the eleventh named storm, the seventh severe tropical storm and the fourth typhoon of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season.
 Nanmadol made a total of three landfalls killing 26, and causing widespread damage worth US$26,464,591.
 The name "Nanmadol" is derived from Nan Madol, a ruined city that lies off the eastern shore of the island of Pohnpei that was the capital of the Saudeleur dynasty until about AD 1500.
The House of Julia Felix is a large Roman villa in the ruined city of Pompeii.
 It was the residence of Julia Felix, who converted portions of it to apartments after a major earthquake in 62 AD, a precursor to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE that destroyed the city.
 Archaeological excavations began in 1755 and continue to this day.
 As the residence of multiple family units, it is an invaluable resource for providing insights into the daily lives of the people of Pompeii.
The Ruin is an elegy in Old English, written by an unknown author probably in the 8th or 9th century, and published in the 10th century in the "Exeter Book", a large collection of poems and riddles.
 The poem evokes the former glory of a ruined city by juxtaposing the grand, lively past state with the decaying present.
Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia.
 He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels, which included "On the Beach" and "A Town Like Alice".

Question: In what year did the author of "Ruined City" die?
Answer: 1960