It's National Poetry Month in Great Britain! | |
Roman poet Virgil (The Aeneid) was born on this day in 70 BC | |
Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov was born on this day in 1814 | |
Friedrich Nietzsche (Also Sprach Zarathustra, Ecce Homo) was born on this day in 1844 | |
P. G. Wodehouse (Carry on, Jeeves) was born on this day in 1881 | |
Pulitzer-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (War and the American Presidency) was born on this day in 1917 | |
Mario Puzo (The Godfather) was born on this day in 1920 | |
Italo Calvino (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler) was born on this day in 1923 | |
Prolific crime writer Salvatore Lombino, better known under his pen names Evan Hunter and Ed McBain, was born on this day in 1926 | |
Michael Lewis (The New New Thing, Moneyball) was born on this day in 1960 | |
John Ball (Edgar-award winner In the Heat of the Night) was born on this day in 1988 | |
Newbery-award winning author Scott O'Dell (Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Black Pearl) died on this day in 1989 | |
Anne Rice's Violin was published on this day in 1997 | |
Anne Rice's The Wolves of Midwinter was published on this day in 2013 |
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