Saturday, December 26, 2015

December 26

Born:



1716 - Thomas Gray
English poet best known for his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."








1819 - E.D.E.N. Southworth
American writer and contemporary of Harriet Beecher Stowe, very widely read in her time.




1891 - Henry Miller
American writer and painter whose novels are a mixture of styles.








1894 - Jean Toomer
American poet and novelist, important figure in the Harlem Renaissance.








 1942 - Catherine Coulter
American author of romantic suspense fiction and historical romances.







1948 - Jean Echenoz
French writer who son the Prix Goncourt in 1995 for I'm Gone (Je m'en vais.)



1956 - David Sedaris
American humorist and author of semi-autobiographical essays.








1964 - Elizabeth Kostova
American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.



Died:
1981 - Amber Reeves
2012 - Gerald McDermott

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