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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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