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LeVar Burton as young Kunta Kinte in the 1977
TV miniseries of Alex Haley's Roots |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892; died September 9, 1978) Scottish poet and essayist known for
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Alex Haley (1921; died February 10, 1992) American author;
Roots;
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Died on this day:
John Henry Newman (1890; born February 21, 1801) Catholic cardinal and theologian converted from Anglicanism and became an apologist for the Catholic cause; wrote numerous
Tracts for the Times; the
Apologia Pro Vita Sua (
Defense of One's Life, an autobiography); the
Grammar of Assent; and the poem
The Dream of Gerontius
Edith Wharton (1937; born January 24, 1862) American novelist and short story writer;
The House of Mirth;
Ethan Frome;
The Age of Innocence; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1920)
V. S. Naipaul (2018; born August 17, 1932) Trinidadian British novelist and essayist;
A House for Mr Biswas;
In a Free State;
A Bend in the River;
The Enigma of Arrival; Nobel Prize in Literature (2001)
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