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Drawing of a wasp in a retelling of Jean-Henri
Fabre's memoir, Insect Adventures |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Jean Racine (1639; died April 21, 1699) French playwright;
Phèdre;
Andromaque;
Athalie
Jean-Henri Fabre (1823; died October 11, 1915) French scientist who wrote works on insects, especially for younger readers
Giacomo Puccini (1858; died November 29, 1924) Italian composer;
La Boheme;
Manon Lescaut;
Tosca;
Madama Butterfly;
Turandot
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869; died April 6, 1935) American poet; three Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry:
Collected Poems (1922);
The Man Who Died Twice (1925);
Tristram (1928)
Died on this day:
George Eliot (1880; born November 22, 1819) English novelist;
Adam Bede;
The Mill on the Floss;
Silas Marner;
Middlemarch; and
Daniel Deronda
Nathanael West (1940; born October 17, 1903) American author who wrote
Miss Lonelyhearts;
The Day of the Locust
Beatrix Potter (1943; born July 28, 1866) English natural scientist and children's author;
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and others
Samuel Beckett (1989; born April 13, 1906) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet;
Murphy;
Molloy;
Malone Dies;
The Unnamable;
Waiting for Godot;
Watt;
Endgame;
Krapp's Last Tape;
How It Is; Nobel Prize in Literature 1969
Bonus Classic:
Hafez of Shiraz (c. 1325-c. 1390) Persian poet known for his ghazals (lyric poems)
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