![]() | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' epistolary novel Dangerous Liaisons was first published on this day in 1782 |
![]() | Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by nom de plume Stendhal (The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma) died on this day in 1842 |
![]() | J. C. Leyendecker, one of the pre-eminent illustrators of the twentieth century, was born on this day in 1874. Leyendecker produced 322 covers for The Saturday Evening Post alone. |
![]() | Science fiction writer H. Beam Piper (Space Viking) was born on this day in 1904 |
![]() | Winston Groom (Forrest Gump, Gump and Co.) was born on this day in 1943 |
![]() | Kim Stanley Robinson (Blue Mars, Antarctica) was born on this day in 1952 |
![]() | Mitch Cullin (Tideland) was born on this day in 1968 |
![]() | Edwin O'Connor (The Last Hurrah) died on this day in 1968 |
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