![]() | It's National Poetry Month in Great Britain! |
![]() | Roman poet Virgil (The Aeneid) was born on this day in 70 BC |
![]() | Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov was born on this day in 1814 |
![]() | Friedrich Nietzsche (Also Sprach Zarathustra, Ecce Homo) was born on this day in 1844 |
![]() | P. G. Wodehouse (Carry on, Jeeves) was born on this day in 1881 |
![]() | Pulitzer-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (War and the American Presidency) was born on this day in 1917 |
![]() | Mario Puzo (The Godfather) was born on this day in 1920 |
![]() | Italo Calvino (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler) was born on this day in 1923 |
![]() | Prolific crime writer Salvatore Lombino, better known under his pen names Evan Hunter and Ed McBain, was born on this day in 1926 |
![]() | Michael Lewis (The New New Thing, Moneyball) was born on this day in 1960 |
![]() | John Ball (Edgar-award winner In the Heat of the Night) was born on this day in 1988 |
![]() | Newbery-award winning author Scott O'Dell (Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Black Pearl) died on this day in 1989 |
![]() | Anne Rice's Violin was published on this day in 1997 |
![]() | Anne Rice's The Wolves of Midwinter was published on this day in 2013 |
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