Thursday, August 27, 2015

August 27

Born:



1871 - Theodore Dreiser
American novelist, most well known for his novels Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy.







1899 - C.S. Forester
The pen name of English author Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, whose most famous work is his 12 book Horatio Hornblower series







1929 - Ira Levin
American author and dramatist, whose 1954 book A Kiss Before Dying won the Edgar award for best first novel.







1932 - Antonia Fraser
The pen name of Dame Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, an Anglo-Irish author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.







1939 - William Least Heat-Moon
American travel writer of English, Irish and Osage ancestry. His most well known works are the travel trilogy that began with Blue Highways.








1959 - Jeanette Winterson 
British writer whose first work, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, won a Whitbread Award for Best First Novel.





1963 - W.E.B DuBois
1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett
2011 - Stetson Kennedy

1 comment:

  1. Your blog is simple but informative for all visitors. These persons are the most famous persons in America. these novels are the most readers in this country. I'm tourist and travel is my favorite hobby. I also like to read different amazing novels. I'm recently come back from my us west coast bus tours. Theodore Dreiser is my favorite Author. He was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school

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