It's National Poetry Month in Great Britain! | |
Justin Winsor, first president of the American Library Association and a pioneer of the librarian's profession, died on this day in 1897. The ALA's Justin Winsor Prize for the best library history essay is named in his honour. | |
Nobel laureate in literature Doris Lessing (The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook) was born on this day in 1919 | |
Timothy Leary (The Politics of Ecstasy) was born on this day in 1920 | |
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, widely regarded as his finest and most important work, was published on this day in 1926. | |
True-Crime queen Ann Rule (Possession) was born on this day in 1935 | |
Jean-Paul Sartre turned down the Nobel prize for literature on this day in 1964 | |
Pop singer Madonna published Sex, a controversial coffee-table art photography book on this day in 1992 | |
Sir Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim) died on this day in 1995 | |
British thriller writer Eric Ambler (The Mask of Dimitrios, The Light of Day) died on this day in 1998 |
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