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Mick Kelly (Sondra Locke) and John Singer (Alan Arkin)--both
Oscar-nominated roles--in the 1968 film version of
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers |
Here are today's milestones:
Born this on day:
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473; died May 24, 1543) German/Polish astronomer;
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)
Tobias Dantzig (1884; died August 9, 1956) Latvian-American mathematician;
Number: The Language of Science;
Aspects of Science;
Mathematics in Ancient Greece
Robert Glass Cleland (1885; died September 4, 1957) American historian;
The Cattle on a Thousand Hills
André Breton (1896; died September 28, 1966) French writer and poet;
Surrealist Manifesto; poems
Carson McCullers (1917; died September 29, 1967) American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet who wrote
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter;
The Ballad of the Sad Café;
The Member of the Wedding
Murakami Ryu (1952) Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist, and filmmaker;
Almost Transparent Blue;
Coin Locker Babies;
In the Miso Soup
Died this on day:
André Gide (1951; born November 22, 1869) French author;
L'immoraliste (
The Immoralist);
La porte étroite (
Strait Is the Gate);
Les caves du Vatican (
The Vatican Cellars);
La Symphonie Pastorale (
The Pastoral Symphony);
Les faux-monnayeurs (
The Counterfeiters); Nobel Prize in Literature (1947)
Harper Lee (2016; born April 28, 1926) American novelist;
To Kill a Mockingbird; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1961)
Umberto Eco (2016; born January 5, 1932) Italian novelist, critic, and philosopher;
The Name of the Rose;
Foucault's Pendulum;
The Island of the Day Before;
The Prague Cemetery
Bonus Classic:
Hong Sheng (1645-1704) Chinese playwright;
Changsheng Dian (
The Palace of Eternal Life), one of the "Four Great Classical Dramas"
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