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Pamplona's "running of the bulls" is featured
in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Thomas Cranmer (1489; died March 21, 1556) English reformer and Archbishop (of Canterbury);
The Book of Common Prayer
Hermann Hesse (1877; died August 9, 1962) German-born Swiss poet and novelist;
Steppenwolf;
Siddhartha;
The Glass Bead Game; Nobel Prize in Literature (1946)
Died on this day:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778; born June 28, 1712) Swiss ("Genevan") philosopher;
Émile, or Treatise on Education (includes "Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar");
Confessions;
Social Contract;
A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Ernest Hemingway (1961; born July 21, 1899) American novelist, short story writer, and journalist; novels
The Sun Also Rises;
A Farewell to Arms;
For Whom the Bell Tolls;
The Old Man and the Sea;
non-fiction
Death in the Afternoon;
Green Hills of Africa;
short stories "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"; "Fifty Grand"; "Hills Like White Elephants"; "The Killers"; "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953); Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)
Vladimir Nabokov (1977; born April 22, 1899) Russian-American novelist; novels
The Defense;
The Gift;
Bend Sinister;
Lolita;
Pnin;
Pale Fire;
Ada, or Ardor;
memoir
Speak, Memory
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