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Paul Muni and Luise Rainer in the 1937 film The Good Earth,
based on Pearl S. Buck's novel about the struggle of Chinese
farmers to survive. Not one Asian played a lead in the film. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Sidney Howard (1891; died August 23, 1939) American playwright;
They Knew What They Wanted which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925; Academy Award (
Gone with the Wind, 1940)
Pearl S. Buck (1892; died March 6, 1973) American writer and novelist who grew up in China;
The House of Earth series: The Good Earth;
Sons;
A House Divided;
China Sky;
Peony;
The Big Wave;
Pulitzer Prize (1932); Nobel Prize in Literature (1938)
Died on this day:
Gilbert White (1793; born July 18, 1720) English naturalist and cleric;
A Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne
Ford Madox Ford (1939; born December 17, 1873) English novelist, poet, critic and editor known for his novels
The Good Soldier;
Parade's End (tetralogy);
The Fifth Queen (trilogy)
Malcolm Lowry (1957; born July 28, 1909) English poet and novelist;
Ultramarine;
Under the Volcano;
Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place;
Lunar Caustic;
Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid;
October Ferry to Gabriola
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