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Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski
(Marlon Brando) from the poster of Elia Kazan's 1951
film of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
A. E. Housman (1859; died April 30, 1936) English poet and scholar;
A Shropshire Lad
Robert Frost (1874; died January 29, 1963) American poet; "Mending Wall"; "The Road Not Taken"; "Fire and Ice"; "Nothing Gold Can Stay"; "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"; four Pulitzer Prizes (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943)
Joseph Campbell (1904; died October 30, 1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer who wrote
The Hero with a Thousand Faces; the four-part
Masks of God;
The Mythic Image;
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living;
The Power of Myth
Tennessee Williams (1911; died February 25, 1983) American playwright;
A Streetcar Named Desire;
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof;
The Glass Menagerie;
Sweet Bird of Youth;
The Night of the Iguana
Died on this day:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1827; baptized December 17, 1770) German composer; Concertos (
Emperor); sonatas (
Moonlight,
Pathetique); 9 symphonies;
Fidelio; "Fur Elise"
Walt Whitman (1892; born May 31, 1819) American poet and writer;
Leaves of Grass
Raymond Chandler (1959; born July 23, 1888) British-American crime novelist; created Philip Marlowe, and wrote
The Big Sleep;
Farewell, My Lovely;
The Little Sister;
The Long Goodbye
Noel Coward (1973; born December 16, 1899) English playwright;
Hay Fever;
Private Lives;
Design for Living;
Present Laughter;
Blithe Spirit;
Academy Honorary Award (1943)
Bonus Classic:
Su Zhe (1039-1112) Chinese essayist; son of Su Xun, brother of Su Dongpo; political and historical writing (one of "Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song")
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