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Stéphane Mallarmé as a faun on the cover of a
literary magazine. Claude Debussy's tone poem
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun was
inspired by Mallarmé's poem of the same name. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Gong Zizhen (1792; died September 26, 1841) Chinese poet;
Jihai Zashi (
Miscellaneous Poems in the Year of Ji Hai)
Claude Debussy (1862; died March 25, 1918) French composer;
Pelleas et Melisande;
La Mer;
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Ray Bradbury (1920; died June 5, 2012) American science fiction writer;
Fahrenheit 451;
The Martian Chronicles;
Something Wicked This Way Comes; "The Veldt"; "All Summer in a Day"; Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (Letters) (2007)
E. Annie Proulx (1935) American novelist, short story writer, and journalist;
Postcards;
The Shipping News;
Close Range: Wyoming Stories includes "Brokeback Mountain"; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1994)
Died on this day:
Kate Chopin (1904; born February 8, 1850) American novelist and short story writer;
The Awakening; "The Kiss"
Shimazaki Toson (1943; born March 25, 1872) Japanese novelist;
The Broken Commandment;
The Family;
Before the Dawn
Jacob Bronowski (1974; born January 18, 1908) Polish-born British mathematician, historian of science, and poet;
The Ascent of Man
Lancelot Hogben (1975; born December 9, 1895) British scientist;
Mathematics for the Million;
Science for the Citizen
James T. Farrell (1979; born February 27, 1904) American novelist, short-story writer, and poet; The
Studs Lonigan Trilogy
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