![]() | Aphra Behn, possibly the first Englishwoman to make a career of writing, was born on this day in 1640 |
![]() | Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past aka In Search of Lost Time) was born on this day in 1871 |
![]() | John Wyndham (The Chrysalids) was born on this day in 1903 |
![]() | Jean Kerr (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) was born on this day in 1922 |
![]() | Alice Munro (Lives of Girls and Women)was born on this day in 1931 |
![]() | Former MI5 agent Peter Wright's memoir Spycatcher was published on this day in 1987 in the U. S. This book was instantly banned in the U.K., and became a bestseller everywhere else. |
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