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The 1960 film version of James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan
features Jack Nicholson in one of his earliest roles |
Here are today's milestones:
Born this on day:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807; died March 24, 1882) American poet; "Paul Revere's Ride";
The Song of Hiawatha;
Evangeline
John Steinbeck (1902; died December 20, 1968) American novelist; short story writer;
Of Mice and Men;
The Grapes of Wrath;
East of Eden; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1940); Nobel Prize in Literature (1962)
James T. Farrell (1904; died August 22, 1979) American novelist, short-story writer, and poet; The
Studs Lonigan Trilogy
Lawrence Durrell (1912; died November 7, 1990) British novelist, poet, playwright, and travel writer;
The Alexandria Quartet (
Justine;
Balthazar;
Mountolive;
Clea)
Died this on day:
Alexander Borodin (1887; born November 12, 1833) Russian composer; symphonies;
Polovtzian Dances;
In the Steppes of Central Asia; opera
Prince Igor
Ivan Pavlov (1936; born September 26, 1849) Russian physiologist who wrote
Conditioned Reflexes;
Psychopathology and Psychiatry; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1904)
Konrad Lorenz (1989; born November 7, 1903) Austrian biologist;
On Aggression;
King Solomon's Ring;
Man Meets Dog; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1973)
Bonus Classic:
Bhasa (2nd century BCE-2nd century CE) Indian playwright who wrote
Svapnavasavadattam (
The Dream of Vasavadatta) and 12 others
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