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Tag Archives: Dead Writers
Celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s Birthday with This Jane Eyre Google Doodle
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Writers in Art: Anna Akhmatova by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Anna Akhmatova by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1922.
Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1922 by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
“You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms…”-Anna Akhmatova
Rachel Carson Died Fifty Years Ago Today
Rachel Carson died on 14 April 1964.
Robert Hines and Rachel Carson. Courtesy of United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”-Rachel Carson
Writers in Art: Robert Browning by Michele Gordigiani
Robert Browning by Michele Gordigiani, 1858.
Robert Browning by Michele Gordigiani, 1858. National Portrait Gallery, London.
Seven Years Later…
…you are still missed.
Kurt Vonnegut in his U.S. Army days
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”-Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
11 April: John O’Hara
John O’Hara died on 11 April 1970.
John O’Hara, 1945
“They say great themes make great novels…but what these young writers don’t understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.”-John O’Hara
[Book Nerd News] Peter Matthiessen is Dead
Peter Matthiessen, 1927-2014 [courtesy the Paris Review]
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[Book Nerd News] Arthur Conan Doyle/Edgar Allan Poe
- AN UPDATE ON SAVE UNDERSHAW: Arthur Conan Doyle’s house to be converted into special school [courtesy The Guardian]
- Boston’s Edgar Allan Poe Statue Will Be Unveiled in October [courtesy Boston Magazine]
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