John Stuart Mill (On Liberty, A System of Logic) died on this day in 1873 | |
Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary) died on this day in 1880 | |
Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow) was born on this day in 1937 | |
Peter Benchley (Jaws) was born on this day in 1940 | |
Robert A. Heinlein (Red Planet, Stranger in a Strange Land, Friday) died on this day in 1988 | |
Controversial anarchist publisher Loompanics stopped accepting orders on this day in 2006, making good on their announcement earlier in the year that they would go out of business soon. The rights to their titles would be sold to Paladin Press. | |
Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) died on this day in 2012 |
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