Classics Calendar for May 9

From a modern London production
of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan

Here are today's milestones:

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Born on this day:

J. M. Barrie (1860; died June 19, 1937) Scottish novelist and playwright; Peter Pan; The Little White Bird; plays The Admirable Crichton; What Every Woman Knows;

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Mona Van Duyn (1921; died December 2, 2004) American poet; To See, To Take: Poems; Near Changes; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1991); Poet Laureate of the USA (1992)

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Charles Simic (1938) Serbian-American poet; The World Doesn't End; Selected Poems; Unending Blues; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1990); Poet Laureate of the USA (2007-2008)

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Died on this day:

Friedrich Schiller (1805; born November 10, 1759) German playwright and poet; The Robbers; Don Carlos; The Wallenstein Trilogy; Mary Stuart; William Tell

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James Jones (1977; born November 6, 1921) American novelist; From Here to Eternity; Some Came Running; The Thin Red Line

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