Today In Literature

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1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Red-Headed League" in the Strand Magazine

1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif

1946 The Eugene O'Neill drama "The Iceman Cometh" opened on Broadway.

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October 16,

In 1854, Oscar Wilde is born on this day in Dublin, Ireland. He (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) grew up in Ireland and went to England to attend Oxford, where he graduated with honors in 1878. A popular society figure known for his wit and flamboyant style, he published his own book of poems in 1881. He spent a year lecturing on poetry in the United States, where his dapper wardrobe and excessive devotion to art drew ridicule from some quarters.
After returning to Britain, Wilde married and had two children, for whom he wrote delightful fairy tales, which were published in 1888. Meanwhile, he wrote reviews and edited Women's World. In 1890, his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was published serially, appearing in book form the following year. He wrote his first play, The Duchess of Padua, in 1891 and wrote five more in the next four years. His plays, including The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), were successful and made him a popular and well-known writer.
In 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry denounced Wilde as a homosexual, accusing him of having an affair with the marquess's son. Wilde sued for libel, but lost his case when evidence strongly supported the marquess's observations. Unfortunately, homosexuality was classified as a crime in England at the time. Wilde was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor.
Wilde was released from prison in 1897 and fled to Paris, where his many loyal friends visited him. He started writing again, producing The Ballad of Reading Gaol, based on his experiences in prison. He died of acute meningitis in 1900.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...rticle&id=4123

Also on Oct. 16:
In 1888, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, who was regarded as the foremost American playwright of his time, was born in New York City.
He won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 for Desire Under the Elms


1997 Author James Michener died at age 90.

1758 Noah Webster lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary) born.

1927 Gunter Grass Germany, novelist/poet (The Tin Drum) born.

1944 - The Robe, by Lloyd Douglas, was published this day. Nine years later the novel was made into a movie and captured three Oscars. It is seen annually (around the Easter holiday) on TV.

One other birthday to note: In 1928, the frosted electric light bulb was patented. No, it wasn’t the work of Thomas Edison, Westinghouse, General Electric, or any of his army, either. It was one Marvin Pipkin who lit up at receiving this patent.

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Today, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born.


And so was I.

[Infinitefox]

really good thread.

[NickAdams]

John Updike, author, Is dead at 76.

[JBI]

John Updike, author, Is dead at 76.

I didn't see that coming - horribly tragic - he will be greatly missed.

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1911: Elizabeth Bishop is born

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1931: Dorothy Parker resigns as drama critic for The New Yorker

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1899: Yeats' The Countess Cathleen opens at the Irish Literary Theatre

[blazeofglory]

Literature today is defined in terms of great freedom. If you write a story or novel you do not need to have a plot and you can start it abruptly. It is so easy. If you are shrewd you can do copy and paste too and that is how some writers rose to great hearts and earned many acclamations.

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i cannot believe how long it has been.

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November 30, 1835: Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Mo.

November 30, 1900: Oscar Wilde died at age 46.

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All of these people were born on December 9:

1608 - John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost)

1891 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)

1905 - Dalton Trumbo, US, writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun)

1915 - Herbert Huncke, writer

1916 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog)

1918 - Jerome Beatty Jr., American author

1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)

1944 - Ki Longfellow, American novelist

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All of these people died on December 9:

1636 - Giovanni B Aleotti, Ital writer/theater architect, dies at about 90

1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)

1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist

1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)

1935 - Walter Liggett, American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker (b. 1886)

1964 - Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77

1977 - Clarice Lispector, writer, dies

1982 - Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87

2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)

2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)

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1538 - Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian writer (Faithfull Shepherd)

1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf

1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)

1821 - Nekrassow, writer

1821 - Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Russkije Zjenjshiny)

1824 - George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie)

1830 - Emily Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems)

1851 - Melville Louis K. Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries

1870 - Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet)

1870 - Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Der de Wier Us)

1872 - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves)

1882 - Otto Neurath, Aust/Brit philosopher (Foundation of Social Sciences)

1891 - Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966)

1891 - Nelly Sachs, writer

1894 - Gertrud Kolmar, writer

1897 - Karl H Waggerl, Austria writer (Power of Love)

1898 - Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [NS]

1903 - William Plomer, Transvaal, author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa)

1907 - Michael Blankfort, US, writer/producer/director

1907 - Rumer Godden, England, author (Thursday's Children)

1920 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)

1923 - Jorge Semprun, French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z)

1925 - Carolyn Ashley Kizer, US writer (Yin, Pulitzer 1985)

1946 - Thomas Lux, American poet

1947 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)

1955 - Jacquelyn Mitchard, American novelist

1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)