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Tom Mix starred in the 1925 silent film version of Zane
Grey's classic Western novel Riders of the Purple Sage. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Franz Schubert (1797; died November 19, 1828) Austrian composer; chamber music, (
Trout Quintet), lieder, (songs), symphonies, (
Unfinished).
Zane Grey (1872; died October 23, 1939) American adventure writer best known for
Riders of the Purple Sage
John O'Hara (1905; died April 11, 1970) American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and essayist;
Appointment in Samarra;
Butterfield 8;
Pal Joey;
Ten North Frederick
Thomas Merton (1915; died December 10, 1968) American Catholic writer and mystic;
The Seven Storey Mountain
Norman Mailer (1923; died November 10, 2007) American novelist, essayist, playwright, and journalist;
The Naked and the Dead;
The Executioner's Song;
The Armies of the Night; Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, (1969); Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, (1980)
Oe Kenzaburo (1935) Japanese novelist, short story writer, and essayist;
A Personal Matter;
The Silent Cry; Nobel Prize in Literature (1994)
Died on this day:
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892; born June 19, 1834) British baptist preacher;
The Wordless Book
Jean Giraudoux (1944; born October 29, 1882) French novelist, essayist, and playwright; plays
The Madwoman of Chaillot;
Ondine;
Duel of Angels;
The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
John Galsworthy (1933; born August 14, 1867) English novelist and playwright;
The Forsyte Saga;
A Modern Comedy;
End of the Chapter; Nobel Prize in Literature (1932)
A. A. Milne (1956; born January 18, 1882) English novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, and short-story writer, and, most notably, author of children's literature: the
Winnie-the-Pooh books
Bonus Classic:
Tertullian (160-c. 220) Roman theologian, apologist, and Church Father born in Carthage;
Apologeticum;
Adversus Valentinianos (
Against the Valentinians);
De Carne Christi (
On the Flesh of Christ)
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