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P. G. Wodehouse, the “funniest writer who ever lived”* was born on this day in 1881. One of the best known humorists of the 20th century, Wodehouse is identified most strongly as the creator of Jeeves “the gentleman’s gentleman.” In a long…
Albert Camus, the Nobel Prize-winning author, journalist, and philosopher who died in 1960, would have turned 100 on November 7th. Camus was born in French Algeria in 1913 and died in the Burgandy region of France. Camus’ centenary is being celebrated widely…
Diane Ackerman was born in Waukegan, Illinois on this date in 1948. Though the author has given the world numerous books over the years, she is best known for 1990’s A Natural History of the Senses. When January Magazine interviewed her several…
Thomas Keneally, the author best know for his Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler’s Ark, was born on this day in 1935. Schindler’s Ark was published in 1982 “when I still had hair,” Keneally said when January Magazine interviewed him in 1999. The book was later…
William Faulker (The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying) who was born on this day in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, was not only creative in his wonderful writing, he was also deeply creative in his life. Though Faulkner’s work…
Frankenstein author Mary Shelley was born on this day in 1797. According to Writer’s Almanac: After her marriage to the poet Percy Shelley, the couple went to stay in a lakeside cottage in Switzerland with the poet Lord Byron in the summer…
Mystery fans in England can look forward to a massive Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay on the English Rivera next month. The festival will begin on September 16, just one day after what would have been the mystery author’s 123rd birthday. Agatha…
Poet, novelist and short story writer Charles Bukowski was born in Germany on this day in 1920. The author of six novels, many hundreds of short stories and thousands of poems, in 1986 TIME magazine named Bukowski a “laureate of American lowlife.”…
Caldecott Medal-winning author, Maurice Sendak, was born on this date in 1928. Polish-born Sendak was best known as the author of Where the Wild Things Are, which was first published in 1963 and has sold some 17 million copies since. Sendak, who…
Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) was born on this day in 1952, an anniversary Google commemorates today with one of their fabulous doodles: this time animated and interactive. When he died in May of 2001, Adams was an international…