![]() | The Marquis de Sade (The 120 Days of Sodom) was born on this day in 1740 |
![]() | Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd) was born on this day in 1840 |
![]() | Harlem Renaissance novelist Dorothy West (The Living Is Easy) was born on this day in 1907 |
![]() | Leonard Knapp, better known as Lester del Rey (Attack from Atlantis) was born on this day in 1915 |
![]() | W. Watts Biggers (The Man Inside) was born on this day in 1927. Biggers also created the Underdog TV series. |
![]() | Carol Shields (Pulitzer-winner The Stone Diaries) was born on this day in 1935. |
![]() | Howard Frank Mosher (Where the Rivers Flow North) was born on this day in 1942. |
![]() | British children's novelist Leon Garfield (Smith, Whitbread-winner John Diamond) died on this day in 1996 |
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