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Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) and Nettie (Akosua Busia)
in a publicity still for Steven Spielberg's 1985
film version of Alice Walker's The Color Purple |
Here are today's milestones:
Born this on day:
Thomas Paine (1737; died June 8, 1809) English-American philosopher and activist;
Common Sense;
The American Crisis;
Rights of Man;
The Age of Reason
Natsume Soseki (1867; died December 9, 1916) Japanese novelist;
Kokoro;
Botchan;
I Am a Cat
J. M. Coetzee (1940) South African novelist and essayist;
Waiting for the Barbarians;
Life and Times of Michael K;
Foe;
Age of Iron;
The Master of Petersburg;
Disgrace;
The Childhood of Jesus; Nobel Prize in Literature (2003)
Alice Walker (1944) American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist;
The Color Purple;
Meridian;
The Third Life of Grange Copeland; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983)
Died this on day:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1881; born November 11, 1821) Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher;
Poor Folk;
Crime and Punishment;
The Idiot;
Demons;
The Brothers Karamazov;
Notes from Underground
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1906; born June 27, 1872) American poet, novelist, and playwright;
The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection of Stories;
The Uncalled: A Novel;
The Sport of the Gods;
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar;
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
Bonus Classic:
Dong Yue (published c. 1640) Chinese novelist;
Xi You Bu (
A Supplement to the Journey to the West)
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