Thursday, October 13, 2022

October 13

Born:



1862 - Mary Kingsley
English ethnographer who wrote primarily about her travels in West Africa.





1890 - Conrad Richter
American novelist who won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Town.








1929 - Richard Howard
American poet who won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the collection Untitled Subjects.




1950 - Mollie Katzen
American chef and author of the popular Moosewood series of vegetarian cookbooks.










1963 - Colin Channer
Jamaican writer of novels and short stories, focusing on his home country.







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