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The cover of my copy of J. Frank Dobie's
Coronado's Children looks like this. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Samuel Johnson (1709; died December 13, 1784) English man of letters known for
A Dictionary of the English Language; annotated
Plays of William Shakespeare;
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia;
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland;
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Died on this day:
Stewart Edward White (1946; born March 12, 1873) American writer, novelist, and spiritualist who wrote
Arizona Nights
Sean O'Casey (1964; born March 30, 1880) Irish playwright known for
The Shadow of a Gunman;
Juno and the Paycock;
The Plough and the Stars;
Red Roses for Me
William Hazlitt (1830; born April 10, 1778) English writer and critic known for
Characters of Shakespear's Plays;
Table-Talk;
The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits
Leonhard Euler (1783; born April 15, 1707) Swiss mathematician and scientist known for
Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie (
Letters to a German Princess, On Different Subjects in Physics and Philosophy); science and math texts
J. Frank Dobie (1964; born September 26, 1888) American folklorist known for
Coronado's Children
Katherine Anne Porter (1980; born May 15, 1890) American short story writer and novelist known for novel
Ship of Fools; short story collection
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, especially "Flowering Judas," "Theft," "Magic"
George MacDonald (1905; born December 10, 1824) Scottish writer and cleric known for
Lilith;
Phantastes;
David Elginbrod;
The Princess and the Goblin;
At the Back of the North Wind
Bonus Classic:
Aeschylus (c. 525/524-c. 456/455 BCE) Greek tragic playwright;
The Oresteia (
Agamemnon;
The Choephoroe;
The Eumenides)
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