George Alec Effinger (When Gravity Fails) was born on this day in 1947 | |
Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here) died on this day in 1951 | |
Gabriela Mistral (Poema de Chile), the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, died on this day in 1957 | |
Dalshiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) died on this day in 1961 | |
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood was published on this day in 1966. | |
On this day in 1969, The final issue of The Saturday Evening Post was published (after 147 years) | |
Alexandra Ripley (Scarlett) died on this day in 2004 | |
John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars" was published on this day in 2012 |
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