• Oliver Goldsmith was born on 11/10/1730. “Where wealth accumulates, men decay.” (The Vicar of Wakefield; The Deserted Village; She Stoops to Conquer)
• Friedrich Schiller was born on 11/10/1759. “Will it, and set to work briskly.” (Ode to Joy; The Robbers; The Maid of Orleans)
• Arthur Rimbaud died on 11/10/1891. “Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.” (Poesies; Illuminations)
• Ken Kesey died on 11/10/2001. “People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.” (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Sometimes a Great Notion)
• Norman Mailer died on 11/10/2007. “I hate everything which is not in myself.” (The Naked and the Dead; The Executioner’s Song)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born on 11/11/1821. “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.” (Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov; Notes from Underground)
• Kurt Vonnegut was born on 11/11/1922. “We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.” (Mother Night; Cat’s Cradle; Slaughterhouse-Five; Jailbird)
• Carlos Fuentes was born on 11/11/1928. “Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.” (The Death of Artemio Cruz; The Old Gringo; Diana: the Goddess Who Hunts Alone)
• Elizabeth Gaskell died on 11/12/1865. “A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.” (Cranford; North and South; Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story)
• Robert Louis Stevenson was born on 11/13/1850. “An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.” (Treasure Island; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Kidnapped; Fables)
• Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) died on 11/13/1916. “A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.” (The Westminster Alice; When William Came; Beasts and Super-Beasts)

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