When the pen takes control.

On this day,

Saw the death of John Steinbeck, American novelist, Nobel prize winning author of such as,”The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden,”

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In 1848, Emily Brontë, author of, “Wuthering Heights,” died of tuberculosis at the age of 30, one of three sisters who wrote novels that have become classics of English literature

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Jane Austen was born in 1775, the English novelist who gave us such as, “Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.” whilst, in 1889 Noel Coward, playwright, composer and actor was born.

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In 1683, marked the death of Izaak Walton, best known for his manual of fishing, “The Compleat Angler,”

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In 1503, saw the birth of Nostradamus, French astrologer who made a number of prophecies, still studied and open to interpretation today.

On this day,

In 1784, the death of Samuel Johnson, English diarist, poet and critic

While in 1906 was born Sir Laurens van der Post, South African novelist, travel writer and conservationist, writing such as, “The Hunter and the Whale and The Lost World of the Kalahari.”