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Edmund (Dean Stockwell), Mary (Katharine Hepburn), Jamie
(Jason Robards, Jr.), and James (Ralph Richardson) in the 1962
film version of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
James Agee (1909; died May 16, 1955) American author, poet, and critic;
A Death in the Family;
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,
(1958)
Died on this day:
Horace (8 BCE; born December 8, 65 BCE) Roman lyric poet who wrote
Odes
Eugene O'Neill (1953; born October 16, 1888) American playwright;
The Emperor Jones;
Desire Under the Elms;
Mourning Becomes Electra;
The Iceman Cometh;
Long Day's Journey into Night;
A Moon for the Misbegotten; Nobel Prize in Literature (1936); Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1920, 1922, 1928, 1957)
P. D. James (2014; born August 3, 1920) English author of crime stories; the
Adam Dalgliesh series
Bonus Classic:
Stories of Robin Hood (Late Middle Ages) songs and stories of an English folk hero of the lower classes who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor"
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