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Rapunzel, by John B. Gruelle,
from a 1922 edition of Wilhelm and
Jacob Grimm's Fairy Stories |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
George Bird Grinnell (1849; died April 11, 1938) American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer;
The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways;
Pawnee Hero Stories;
Blackfoot Lodge Tales; founded the first Audubon Society in America, and co-founded the New York Zoological Society
Upton Sinclair (1878; died November 25, 1968) American novelist, activist, and journalist known for
The Jungle;
Oil!; the "Lanny Budd" series; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1943)
Stevie Smith (1902; died March 7, 1971) English poet and novelist known for novel
The Holiday; poem "Not Waving but Drowning"
Donald Hall (1928; died June 23, 2018) American poet and writer known for poetry collections
Exiles and Marriages;
Kicking the Leaves;
The Happy Man;
The One Day;
The Museum of Clear Ideas;
Without: Poems; children's book
Ox-Cart Man; non-fiction
Essays After Eighty
Died on this day:
Jacob Grimm (1863; born January 4, 1785) German folklorist known for
Kinder-und Hausmärchen (
Children's and Household Tales, with brother Wilhelm);
Deutsche Mythologie (
Teutonic Mythology)
Theodor Fontane (1898; born December 30, 1819) German novelist and poet best remembered for his novels
Trials and Tribulations,
Frau Jenny Treibel, and
Effi Briest
Bonus Classic:
Zengzi (505-435 BCE) Chinese philosopher; commented on
Da Xue (
The Great Learning) and composed or edited
Xiao Jing (
The Classic of Filial Piety), both attributed to Confucius
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