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Aaron Douglas's Aspiration is another product of the "Harlem Renaissance" that nurtured Langston Hughes. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Ikkyu (1394; died December 12, 1481) Japanese Zen monk and poet; Crazy Cloud Anthology
Langston Hughes (1902; died May 22, 1967) American poet, novelist, and playwright; poetry The Weary Blues; Montage of a Dream Deferred; short story collection The Ways of White Folks; poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"; "Harlem"; "Dreams"
Muriel Spark (1918; died April 13, 2006) Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The Mandelbaum Gate; The Driver's Seat; Memento Mori
Died this on day:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1851; born August 30, 1797) English writer best known for the novel Frankenstein; other genres including short stories
Werner Heisenberg (1976; born December 5, 1901) German physicist; The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory; Nobel Prize in Physics (1932)
Bonus Classic:
Sengcan (529-606) Chinese Chan (Zen) monk and patriarch; wrote Xinxin Ming (Faith in Mind)
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