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Don Murray and Marilyn Monroe in the 1956
film version of William Inge's Bus Stop |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Saul Bellow (1915; died April 5, 2005) Canadian-American novelist, short story writer, and playwright;
The Adventures of Augie March;
Henderson the Rain King;
Herzog;
Mr. Sammler's Planet;
Humboldt's Gift; Nobel Prize in Literature (1976); Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1976)
Maurice Sendak (1928; died May 8, 2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books;
Where the Wild Things Are;
In the Night Kitchen;
Outside Over There
E. O. Wilson (1929) American biologist;
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis;
On Human Nature;
The Ants;
Consilience; Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction (1979, 1991)
Died on this day:
Luis de Camoëns (1580; born Unknown Date) Portuguese poet;
Os Lusíadas (
The Lusiads)
Edward Everett Hale (1909; born April 3, 1822) American author and cleric;
Illustrious Americans (co-author); "The Man without a Country";
Boys' Heroes
William Inge (1973; born May 3, 1913) American playwright and novelist;
Picnic;
Come Back, Little Sheba;
Bus Stop; Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1953)
Louis L'Amour (1988; born March 22, 1908) American author of western novels;
Hondo; the
Sackett series;
Shalako
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