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Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the real Archbishop
on whom Willa Cather based the
titular protagonist of her novel,
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Johan Huizinga (1872; died February 1, 1945) Dutch historian;
The Autumn of the Middle Ages (a.k.a.
The Waning of the Middle Ages);
Erasmus;
Homo Ludens
Willa Cather (1873; died April 24, 1947) American author;
O Pioneers!;
Death Comes for the Archbishop;
The Song of the Lark;
My Ántonia; Pulitzer Prize in Literature (1923)
Died on this day:
Cicero (43 BCE; born January 3, 106 BCE) Roman orator, author, and letter-writer who wrote these orations:
In Verrem (
Against Verres;
In Catilinam (
Catiline Orations)
I-IV;
Philippicae (
Philippics); and philosophical works:
De Oratore (
On the Orator);
De Re Publica (
On the Commonwealth);
De Legibus (
On the Laws);
De Finibus (
On the Ends of Good and Evil);
De Natura Deorum (
On the Nature of the Gods);
De Officiis (
On Obligations)
Thornton Wilder (1975; born April 17, 1897) American playwright and novelist; three Pulitzer Prizes:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (for Fiction, 1928);
Our Town (for Drama, 1938);
The Skin of Our Teeth (for Drama, 1942)
Robert Graves (1985; born July 24, 1895) English poet, novelist, and critic; poetry;
The White Goddess;
The Golden Ass of Apuleius;
I, Claudius
Bonus Classic:
Xu Zhonglin (died 1560) Chinese writer;
Fengshen Yanyi (
The Investiture of the Gods)
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