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John D. MacDonald's
tough guy, Travis McGee |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Alexandre Dumas (1802; died December 5, 1870) French writer;
The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo;
The Man in the Iron Mask
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886; died July 30, 1965) Japanese fiction writer; playwright; essayist;
Tade ku mushi (
Some Prefer Nettles);
Sasameyuki (
Light Snow =
The Makioka Sisters)
Robert Graves (1895; died December 7, 1985) English poet, novelist, and critic; poetry;
The White Goddess;
The Golden Ass of Apuleius;
I, Claudius
John D. MacDonald (1916; died December 28, 1986) American crime novelist and short story writer; the
Travis McGee series
Yoshimoto Banana (1964) Japanese novelist;
Moonlight Shadow;
Kitchen;
Goodbye Tsugumi;
The Lake
Died on this day:
Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1927; born March 1, 1892) Japanese short story writer; "Rashōmon"; "In a Grove"; "The Nose"; "Hell Screen"; "The Spider's Thread"; "Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale"; "Autumn Mountain"
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1991; born November 21, 1902) Polish-born American author in Yiddish;
The Magician of Lublin;
A Day of Pleasure;
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories; Nobel Prize in Literature, (1978)
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