The statue of Friedrich Schiller at his namesake park in Columbus:
Herr Schiller surveying his domain
Herr Schiller
Daily Diversion #325: Schiller Surveys His Domain
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Category Archives: Dead Writers
Theodore Roethke on the Damage of Haste
Theodore Roethke Quote
Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero!
English actor and playwright (The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, The Enchanted Cottage*) Sir Arthur Wing Pinero was born on 24 May 1855:
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 1910
*As a teenager, I was straight up obsessed with the 1945 film adaptation of The Enchanted Cottage, starring Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire. It practically gave me life for a few years. This was *totally normal* for a teen in the late eighties/early nineties, right?
Happy Birthday, Margaret Wise Brown!
Children’s author Margaret Wise Brown was born on 23 May 1910. She is best known for the books Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.
Margaret Wise Brown. Brooklyn Museum.
Victor Hugo Quote
Victor Hugo Quote
Truman Capote: Inner Music
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.”-Truman Capote
Happy Birthday, Mr. Barrie!
Sir James Matthew Barrie was born on 9 May 1860.
Portrait of J.M. Barrie. 1904 or earlier.
Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M. Barrie.
Writers in Art: Charles Dickens Giving a Reading
Charles Dickens Giving a Reading, 1867
This engraving is from a sketch by Charles A. Barry. It appeared in Harper’s Weekly in December 1867.
Happy Birthday, Rafael Sabatini!
The writer of such adventure classics as The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, and Captain Blood was born on 29 April 1875. Here he is as a young man, looking rather dapper:
Portrait of birthday boy Rafael Sabatini
Shakespeare 400 Google Doodle
Shakespeare 400 Google Doodle
What is your favourite Shakespeare play?
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