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| From the cover of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Gary Snyder (1930) American poet and essayist;
Turtle Island;
The Real Work;
A Place in Space;
Mountains and Rivers Without End; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1975)
Thomas Pynchon (1937) American novelist;
V.;
The Crying of Lot 49;
Gravity's Rainbow;
Mason & Dixon
Died on this day:
Antoine Lavoisier (1794; born August 26, 1743) French chemist known as "The father of modern chemistry"; wrote
Elements of Chemistry
John Stuart Mill (1873; born May 20, 1806) English philosopher;
Autobiography;
On Liberty;
Utilitarianism;
The Subjection of Women
Gustave Flaubert (1880; born December 12, 1821) French novelist; novel
Madame Bovary; stories "A Simple Heart," "Saint Julian the Hospitalier," and "Hérodias"
Paul Gauguin (1903; born June 7, 1848) French painter;
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?;
The Yellow Christ;
Vision After the Sermon;
Spirit of the Dead Watching;
Two Tahitian Women
Oswald Spengler (1936; born May 29, 1880) German historian and philosopher;
The Decline of the West
Elmer Rice (1967; born September 28, 1892) American playwright best known for
The Adding Machine;
Street Scene;
Dream Girl;
Not for Children; Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1929)
Robert A. Heinlein (1988; born July 7, 1907) American author of science fiction;
Stranger in a Strange Land;
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress;
Starship Troopers;
Time Enough for Love
Theodore Sturgeon (1985; born February 26, 1918) American author of science fiction;
More Than Human;
I, Libertine; "Microcosmic God"; "Slow Sculpture"
Maurice Sendak (2012; born June 10, 1928) American illustrator and writer of children's books;
Where the Wild Things Are;
In the Night Kitchen;
Outside Over There
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