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Illustration by an unknown artist for
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter |
Here are today's milestones:
Died on this day:
James Boswell (1795; born October 29, 1740) Scottish biographer;
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1864; born July 4, 1804) American writer;
The Scarlet Letter;
The House of the Seven Gables; short stories ("The Minister's Black Veil"; "Young Goodman Brown"; "Rappaccini's Daughter"; "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"; etc.)
Booth Tarkington (1946; born July 29, 1869) American novelist and dramatist;
The Magnificent Ambersons;
Alice Adams;
Seventeen
Ogden Nash (1971; born August 19, 1902) American poet; light verse such as
The Carnival of the Animals (to accompany the musical suite by Saint-Saens)
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