Plums, 1920 (by Georgia O'Keeffe), the fruit that inspired petty larceny in the poem "This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet (1743; died March 28, 1794) French philosopher known for The Progress of the Human Mind
William Carlos Williams (1883; died March 4, 1963) American poet known for "The Red Wheelbarrow"; "This Is Just To Say"; Spring and All; Paterson
Frank O'Connor (1903; died March 10, 1966) Irish short story writer, poet, and novelist known for short stories "Guests of the Nation"; "The Majesty of Law"; "First Confession"; "My Oedipus Complex"; also poems and novels
Robert B. Parker (1932; died January 18, 2010) American writer known for detective novels featuring Spenser, Jesse Stone, and Sunny Randall
Ken Kesey (1935; died November 10, 2001) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Sometimes a Great Notion
Died on this day:
Hildegard of Bingen (1179; born September 16, 1098) German abbess, philosopher, and mystic known for mystic works Scivias (Know the Ways); Liber Vitae Meritorum (Book of Life's Merits); Liber Divinorum Operum (Book of Divine Works)
Walter Savage Landor (1864; born January 30, 1775) English author and poet known for Imaginary Conversations; Rose Aylmer
Tobias Smollett (1771; born March 19, 1721) Scottish novelist and poet known for Roderick Random; Peregrine Pickle; Sir Launcelot Greaves
Ruth Benedict (1948; born June 5, 1887) American anthropologist known for Patterns of Culture; The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Bonus Classic:
Heraclitus (c. 535-c. 475 BCE) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher; On Nature (survives only in fragments)
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