• 2021 writers' anniversaries

    From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 10 14:44:10 2021
    2500th death anniversary
    Apr: Confucius

    700th death anniversary:
    Sept: Dante

    400th birth anniversaries:
    Mar: Andrew Marvell
    July: Jean de la Fontaine

    350th:
    Apr: Jean Baptiste Rousseau
    Nov. Colley Cibber

    300th:
    Mar: Tobias Smollett
    Nov: Mark Akenside
    Dec: William Collins

    250th:
    June: Sydney Smith
    Aug: Sir Walter Scott
    Dec: Dorothy Wordsworth

    200th:
    Mar: Ernest Feydeau
    Mar: Sir Richard Burton
    Apr: Charles Beaudelaire
    July: Mary Baker Eddy
    Aug: Octave Feuillet
    Nov: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Dec: Gustave Flaubert

    150th publication anniversary:
    George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind
    Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs

    150th:
    Apr: S.M. Synge
    June: James Weldon Johnson
    July: Marcel Proust
    Aug: Theodore Dreiser
    Oct: Paul Valery
    Nov: Stephen Crane

    100th publication anniversary:
    American Indian Fairy Tales, retold by W.T. Larned

    100th:
    Jan: Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Swiss satirical dramatist)
    Jan: Seon Manley (anthologist)
    Jan: Patricia Highsmith (thriller novelist)
    Feb: Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique)
    Mar: Richard P. Wilbur (U.S. Poet Laureate, 1987-1988)
    May: Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf)
    May: Pauline Clarke (1962 Carnegie Medalist)
    May: James Blish (Star Trek novelist)
    May: Ruth McCrea (illustrator for Peter Pauper Press)
    June: Ivan Southall (Australian novelist & 1971 Carnegie Medalist)
    June: Ib Spang Olsen (Danish illustrator & 1972 HCAA Medalist)
    June: Patricia Wrightson (Australian fantasy writer and 1986 HCAA Medalist) June: Mirko Hanák (Czech watercolor nature artist)
    July: Ellen Douglas (1973 National Book Award nominee)
    Aug: Hayden Carruth (poet/critic)
    Aug: Alex Haley (Roots)
    Aug: Brian Moore (Belfast-born novelist & 3-time Booker Prize nominee)
    Nov: James Jones (From Here to Eternity)
    Nov: Yoshiko Uchida (The Dancing Kettle and Other Japanese Folk Tales)

    50th death anniversaries:
    May: Ogden Nash (comic poet)
    Oct: Philip Wylie (SF novelist)
    Nov: Mirko Hanák (Czech artist)
    Nov: Maud Petersham (co-illustrator: Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg)

    40th birth anniversary:
    Ned Vizzini (Teen Angst? Naaah...)


    Lenona.

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