In honour of Lewis Carroll's birthday, today is Rabbit Hole Day! | |
Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodson, better known as Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass) was born on this day in 1832 | |
Publishing magnate (and Pulitzer winner for his interview in 1955 with Nikita Kruschchev) William Randolph Hearst Jr. was born on this day in 1908 | |
Poet and New York Times editor Harvey Shapiro (The Eye, National Cold Storage Company) died on this day in 1924 | |
Mordecai Richler (Jacob Two-Two Meets The Hooded Fang, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) was born on this day in 1931 | |
John Updike (The Witches of Eastwick) died on this day in 2009 | |
J. D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye) died on this day in 2010 | |
Comic strip writer Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois) died on this day in 2018 |
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