Monday, March 9, 2015

March 9

Born:



1892 - Vita Sackville-West
English writer and gardener, possibly more well known for her affair with the author Virginia Woolf.







1903 - Bernarda Bryson
American painter, lithographer and children's book illustrator.



1918 - Mickey Spillane
American author of crime novels; creator of the Mike Hammer character.








1947 - Keri Hulme
New Zealand author whose only novel, The Bone People, won the 1985 Booker Prize.







1955 - Pat Murphy
American science fiction and fantasy author.



1963 - David Pogue
American technology author, the creator of the Missing Manual series of tech books.




Died:
1994 - Charles Bukowski
1966 - Merle Curti
2011 - Doris Burn

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