• Ellen Glasgow was born on 4/22/1873. Glasgow won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942 for In This Our Life. Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland starred in the film version.
• Vladimir Nabokov was born on 4/22/1899. “A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.”
• William Shakespeare died on 4/23/1616. “He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.”
• William Wordsworth died on 4/23/1850. “To begin, begin.”
• Anthony Trollope was born on 4/24/1815. “I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.”
• Willa Cather died on 4/24/1947. “Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.”

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