It's National Proofreading Day! | |
Kenneth Grahame (The Wind in the Willows) was born on this day in 1859 | |
British writer Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) was born on this day in 1928. Sillitoe was one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s. | |
Pulitzer-winning literary journalist John McPhee (A Sense of Where You Are) was born on this day in 1931 | |
Thomas Wolfe's second novel, Of Time and the River was published on this day in 1935 | |
Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides, Pulitzer winner Middlesex) was born on this day in 1960 | |
The radio play version of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was first broadcast on this day in 1978 | |
Paul Quarrington received the Governor General's Literary Award for English Fiction for Whale Music on this day in 1990 | |
Guyanese writer Sir Wilson Harris (Palace of the Peacock) died on this day in 2018 | |
Kate Wilhelm (Hugo-winner Where the Late Sweet Birds Sang) died on this day in 2018 |
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