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Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw) on a poster
for the 1969 film adaptation of Philip
Roth's novella Goodbye, Columbus |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Tobias Smollett (1771; died September 17, 1771) Scottish novelist and poet known for
Roderick Random;
Peregrine Pickle;
Sir Launcelot Greaves
Richard Francis Burton (1821; died October 20, 1890) British explorer and writer who made translations of
One Thousand and One Nights and
The Kama Sutra; wrote the
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah and the pseudotranslation
The Kasidah
Philip Roth (1933; died May 22, 2018) American novelist;
Goodbye, Columbus;
Portnoy's Complaint;
American Pastoral; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1998)
Died on this day:
Ibn Khaldun (1406; born May 27, 1332) North African Muslim historian;
Muqaddimah (part I of a history of the world,
Kitāb al-'Ibar)
Elias Lonnrot (1884; born April 9, 1802) Finnish folklorist who compiled
Kalevala, the national epic of Finland, from national folk tales he had gathered; and
Kanteletar, a collection of Finnish folk poetry
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1950; born September 1, 1875) American pulp writer; writing "pulp fiction," most famously
Tarzan,
John Carter,
Pellucidar, and other series
Arthur C. Clarke (2008; born December 16, 1917) British author of science fiction;
2001: A Space Odyssey;
Profiles of the Future;
Rendezvous with Rama;
The Fountains of Paradise
Bonus Classic:
Theocritus (flourished c. 270) Greek poet known for
Idylls
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