Friday, November 13, 2015

November 13

Born:



1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author known for works like Treasure IslandKidnappped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.








1908 - C. Vann Woodward
American Southern historian, known for books like The Strange Career of Jim Crow and The Origins of the New South, 1877-1913. Won a Pulitzer Prize for editing Mary Chesnut's Civil War.






1940 - William Taubman
American political scientist, winner of a 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Nikita Khrushchev.



1957 - Stephen Baxter
British author of hard science fiction and alternate history.





Died:
1916 - Saki
1952 - Margaret Wise Brown
1955 - Bernard DeVoto

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