• Astrid Lindgren was born on 11/14/1907. “I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.” (The Pippi Longstocking books)
• Booker T. Washington died on 11/14/1915. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” (Up from Slavery; Working With the Hands)
• Marianne Moore was born on 11/15/1887. “If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.” (Poems; Selected Poems; The Marianne Moore Reader)
• George S. Kaufman was born on 11/16/1889. “At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that’s better than an absent one is a dead one.” (You Can’t Take it With You (with Moss Hart); The Royal Family; Dinner at Eight; Stage Door (all with Edna Ferber)
• Alan Watts died on 11/16/1973. “You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.” (Beat Zen Square Zen and Zen; The Art of Contemplation)
• Sheilah Graham died on 11/17/1988. “No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.” (Beloved Infidel: The Education of a Woman (with Gerold Frank); The Garden of Allah)
• Audre Lorde died on 11/17/1992. “There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.” (The Cancer Journals; Zami: A New Spelling of My Name; A Burst of Light)
• Marcel Proust died on 11/18/1922. “Love is a reciprocal torture.” (In Search of Lost Time)
• Paul Bowles died on 11/18/1999. “If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.” (The Sheltering Sky; Up Above the World)

Astrid Lindgren, 1924

Booker T. Washington, 1911

George S. Kaufman circa 1915

Marcel Proust

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