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The painting popularly known as "Whistler's Mother"
by James Abbott McNeill Whistler |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Susan Warner (1819; died March 17, 1885) American writer;
The Wide, Wide World;
What She Could
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834; died July 17, 1903) American artist;
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. I: The Artist's Mother (known as "Whistler's Mother")
E. B. White (1899; died October 1, 1985) American writer best known for
The Elements of Style (with William Strunk); and children's books
Charlotte's Web;
Stuart Little;
The Trumpet of the Swan
Jhumpa Lahiri (1967) Indian American novelist and short story writer;
Interpreter of Maladies;
The Namesake;
Unaccustomed Earth;
The Lowland; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000)
Died on this day:
George Gershwin (1937; born September 26, 1898) American composer who wrote "Someone to Watch Over Me"; "I've Got a Crush on You"; "Embraceable You";
Porgy and Bess;
Rhapsody in Blue;
An American in Paris
Delmore Schwartz (1966; born December 8, 1913) American poet and short story writer;
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities;
Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems
Ross Macdonald (1983; born December 13, 1915) American-Canadian author of crime stories; the
Lew Archer series
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