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Bold cover for an edition of Joseph
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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Clifford D. Simak (1904; died April 25, 1988) American author of science fiction;
City;
Way Station
P. D. James (1920; died November 27, 2014) English author of crime stories; the
Adam Dalgliesh series
Died on this day:
Joseph Conrad (1924; born December 3, 1857) Polish-British novelist;
The Nigger of the "Narcissus";
Heart of Darkness;
Lord Jim;
Typhoon;
Nostromo;
The Secret Agent;
Under Western Eyes
Thorstein Veblen (1929; born July 30, 1857) Norwegian-American economist and sociologist;
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Colette (1954; born January 28, 1873) French novelist;
Gigi; the
Claudine stories
Flannery O'Connor (1964; born March 25, 1925) American novelist and short story writer;
Wise Blood;
The Violent Bear It Away;
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Beryl Markham (1986; born October 26, 1902) British-born Kenyan adventurer and author who wrote
West with the Night
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2008; born December 11, 1918) Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer;
The First Circle;
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich;
Cancer Ward;
August 1914;
The Gulag Archipelago; Nobel Prize in Literature (1970)
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