Illustration of a raven like the one that visits Poe's protagonist, from The Rev. Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne (1879) |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Thomas Keneally (1935) Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist known for novels Schindler's Ark (which became the film Schindler's List) and The Playmaker
Died on this day:
John Woolman (1772; born October 19, 1720) American Quaker famous for The Journal
Edgar Allan Poe (1849; born January 19, 1809) American poet and short story writer; short stories "The Cask of Amontillado"; "The Fall of the House of Usher"; "The Masque of the Red Death"; "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"; "The Pit and the Pendulum"; "The Purloined Letter"; "The Tell-Tale Heart"; poems "Annabel Lee"; "Eldorado"; "To Helen"; "The Raven"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1894; born August 29, 1809) American poet and author who wrote The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Bonus Classic:
Kalidasa (5th century) Indian Sanskrit poet and playwright; Cloud Messenger; Shakuntala; Kumarasambhava
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