Conrad Aiken (Pulitzer-winner Selected Poems, The House of Dust) was born on this day in 1889 | |
David Baldacci (Absolute Power) was born on this day in 1960 | |
Arthur C. Clarke's final novel, The Last Theorem, unfinished at his death and completed by Frederik Pohl, was published on this day in 2008 | |
Budd Schulberg (What Makes Sammy Run?, The Harder They Fall, The Disenchanted) died on this day in 2009 | |
On this day in 2016, the last two reporters for Dundee, Scotland's Sunday Post's bureau on Fleet Street in London were laid off, officially marking the end of Fleet Street's 300 year run as the center of journalism in the English speaking world. |
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