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Leslie Caron with her baby and her co-star
Maurice Chevalier on the set of Gigi,
the 1958 film based on Colette's novel |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Prince Toneri (676; died December 6, 735) Japanese author (with O no Yasumaro) of
Nihon Shoki (
The Chronicles of Japan), starting with the creation myths and blending into history up to the 8th century
Colette (1873; died August 3, 1954) French novelist;
Gigi; the
Claudine stories
Harvey Fergusson (1890; died August 27, 1971) American Southwest writer of the "Followers of the Sun" trilogy:
The Blood of the Conquerors;
In Those Days; and
Wolf Song
Died on this day:
William H. Prescott (1859; born May 4, 1796) American historian;
Conquest of Mexico;
Conquest of Peru
William Butler Yeats (1939; born June 13, 1865) Irish poet; tapped into Irish traditions and spiritual explorations; best-known for "The Second Coming"; Nobel Prize in Literature (1923)
Zora Neale Hurston (1960; born January 7, 1891) American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist;
Their Eyes Were Watching God;
Mules and Men
Joseph Brodsky (1996; born May 24, 1940) Russian-American poet and essayist;
Gorbunov and Gorchakov;
Less Than One: Selected Essays; Nobel Prize in Literature (1987)
Bonus Classic:
The Thidrekssaga (13th century) Old Norse saga about Theoderic the Great (Dietrich von Bern)
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