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Scene from the 1987 Danish film version
of Isak Dinesen's story "Babette's Feast" |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Isak Dinesen (1885; died September 7, 1962) Danish author known for
Out of Africa;
Seven Gothic Tales; "Babette's Feast"
Thornton Wilder (1897; died December 7, 1975) American playwright and novelist; three Pulitzer Prizes:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (for Fiction, 1928);
Our Town (for Drama, 1938);
The Skin of Our Teeth (for Drama, 1942)
Died on this day:
Juana Inés de la Cruz (1695; born November 12, 1651) Mexican nun under colonial Spain who wrote poetry and dramas
Benjamin Franklin (1790; born January 17, 1706) American polymath;
Autobiography;
Poor Richard's Almanack
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014; born March 6, 1927) Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist;
One Hundred Years of Solitude;
The Autumn of the Patriarch;
Love in the Time of Cholera;
Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Nobel Prize in Literature (1982)
Bonus Classic:
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) English playwright; another prolific Jacobean
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