December 6

Born:

1884 - Cornelia Meigs
American children's author, winner of the Newbery Medal for her 1933 biography of Louisa May Alcott, Invincible Louisa.

1886 - Joyce Kilmer
American writer and poet best known for his poem "Trees."

1905 - Elizabeth Yates
American author who won the 1951 Newbery Medal for Amos Fortune, Free Man.

1910 - David M. Potter
American historian who won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for History posthumously for his work The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861.

1942 - Peter Handke

Austrian author and playwright who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."

1949 - Linda Barnes
American mystery writer, known for the Carlotta Carlyle series.





Died:
1882 - Anthony Trollope
1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter
1960 - Mark Howe