On this day,
Died in 1891, Herman Melville, American author of, “Moby Dick.”
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American authors worthy of note in our list of birthdays
24-9-1896 F Scott Fitzgerald, novelist and short story writer who gained early success with his autobiographical novel, “This Side of Paradise,”
One year later on 25-9-1897 William Faulkner, winner of the 1949 Nobel prize for Literature.
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On this day
Born 15-9-1890, Agatha Christie, highly successful crime writer, creator of both Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, he of the twirling moustache and the diminutive spinster Miss Jane Marple, both of whom frequently portrayed on film and T.V.
Also, in 1789, James Fenimore Cooper, American author, probably best remembered for, “The last of the Mohicans.”
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Born this day
11-9-1700 James Thompson Scottish poet who penned, “Rule Britannia,” also in 1885 D.H. Lawrence, writer on human sexuality and social conditions in most notably, “Sons and lovers and Lady Chatterley’s lover,“ a book banned when it first appeared.
12-9-1907 Louis MacNiece, Irish poet and broadcaster, a member of the Oxford group which included Auden, Day Lewis and Spender.
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On this day
J.R.R. Tolkien, Professor of Anglo-Saxon, compiler of languages, creator of worlds, scholar and author of the books against which the majority of later fantasy novels are compared, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion among others, died on 2nd. September 1973 aged 81.
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Literati inclytus
On this day
The death in 1688 of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress. Also in 1867, Charles Baudelaire in poverty, essayist, translator and influential poet, at the age of 46.
When the pen takes control. 