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Cover of a recent edition of Palace Walk,
from the Cairo Trilogy of Naguib Mahfouz |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Hector Berlioz (1803; died March 8, 1869) French composer;
Damnation of Faust;
Symphonie Fantastique;
Requiem
Alfred de Musset (1810; died May 2, 1857) French dramatist, poet, and novelist who wrote
The Story of a White Blackbird and
The Confession of a Child of the Century, as well as the play
Lorenzaccio
Horace Bell (1830; died June 29, 1918) American author and lawman;
Reminiscences of a Ranger
Naguib Mahfouz (1911; died August 30, 2006) Egyptian writer; 34 novels (including
Midaq Alley and the "Cairo Trilogy"), over 350 short stories, and more; Nobel Prize in Literature (1988)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918; died August 3, 2008) Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer;
The First Circle;
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich;
Cancer Ward;
August 1914;
The Gulag Archipelago; Nobel Prize in Literature (1970)
Bonus Classic:
Ireneaus, Church Father (early 2nd century-c. 202) Greek Bishop and Church Father in Roman Gaul;
Against Heresies
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