Marley's Ghost by John Leech, an 1843 illustration for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Thomas More (1478; died July 6, 1535) English author and statesman; Utopia; History of King Richard III
Charles Dickens (1812; died June 9, 1870) English writer; The Pickwick Papers; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867; died February 10, 1957) American author; Little House on the Prairie and its sequels
G. H. Hardy (1877; died December 1, 1947) English mathematician; A Mathematician's Apology; A Course of Pure Mathematics
Sinclair Lewis (1885; died January 10, 1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright; Main Street; Babbitt; Arrowsmith; Elmer Gantry; Nobel Prize in Literature (1930)
Bonus Classic:
Menander (342/341-290 BCE) Greek comic playwright who wrote Dyskolos; other fragments
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