Vintage illustration of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame |
Here are today's milestones:
Born this on day:
Victor Hugo (1802; died May 22, 1885) French writer; The Hunchback of Notre-Dame; Les Misérables
Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879; died August 13, 1962) American writer and patron; Edge of the Taos Desert; Winter in Taos
Theodore Sturgeon (1918; died May 8, 1985) American author of science fiction; More Than Human; I, Libertine; "Microcosmic God"; "Slow Sculpture"
Bonus Classic:
Jin Ping Mei (first printed in 1610) "The Plum in the Golden Vase," Chinese novel attributed to "Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng" (a pseudonym)
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