William Styron Quote
William Styron on Great Books
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Tag Archives: Dead Writers
It’s Your Birthday, Thomas Mann!
German writer Thomas Mann was born on 6 June 1875. Here he is as a young man with an exceptionally fine mustache:
A Young Thomas Mann
Daily Diversion #325: Schiller Surveys His Domain
The statue of Friedrich Schiller at his namesake park in Columbus:
Herr Schiller surveying his domain
Herr Schiller
[Alternative Muses] Birthday Mashup: Edmond de Goncourt/Dorothea Lange
“History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.”-Writer Edmond de Goncourt (born 26 May 1822)
All photos taken by Dorothea Lange (born 26 May 1895) during The Great Depression
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
A Reminder from Sylvia
I’ve shared this quote before, but it’s good enough to share again:
Wise words from Sylvia
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