The Dead Writers Roundup: February 22nd-25th

James Russell Lowell was born on 2/22/1819. “Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.” (A Fable for Critics; Conversations on the Old Poets)
Jules Renard was born on 2/22/1864. “Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.” (Crime de village; Poil de carotte)
Edward Gorey was born on 2/22/1925. “To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.” (The Doubtful Guest; The Gashlycrumb Tinies; The Gilded Bat; The Broken Spoke; The Loathsome Couple)
Elizabeth Bowen died on 2/22/1973. “When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” (The Last September; The House in Paris; The Heat of the Day; Eva Trout; Look At All Those Roses)
Samuel Pepys was born on 2/23/1633. “Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.” (The Diary of Samuel Pepys)
John Keats died on 2/23/1821. “Love is my religion-I could die for it.” (Ode to Psyche; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on Melancholy; La Belle Dame sans Merci; Hyperion)
W.E.B. Du Bois was born on 2/23/1868. “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” (The Souls of Black Folk; Black Reconstruction in America; Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil)
Fannie Hurst died on 2/23/1968. “I’m not happy when I’m writing, but I’m more unhappy when I’m not.” (Back Street; Imitation of Life; Anitra’s Dance)
Jessamyn West died on 2/23/1984. “A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.” (The Friendly Persuasion; Love is Not What You Think)
James Herriot died on 2/23/1995. “If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” (All Creatures Great and Small; All Things Bright and Beautiful; All Things Wise and Wonderful)
George Augustus Moore was born on 2/24/1852. “Reality can destroy the dream, why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?” (Confessions of a Young Man; Esther Waters; The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs)
Anthony Burgess was born on 2/25/1917. “Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.” (The Doctor is Sick; The Worm and the Ring; A Clockwork Orange)
Grace Metalious died on 2/25/1964. “I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.” (Peyton Place; Return to Peyton Place; The Tight White Collar; No Adam in Eden)
Tennessee Williams died on 2/25/1983. “Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.” (The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Summer and Smoke; The Rose Tattoo; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Suddenly, Last Summer; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Night of the Iguana; The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore)