Monday, December 7, 2015

December 7

Born:




1873 - Willa Cather
American author known for her novels of frontier life, like O Pioneers! and My Ántonia.









1888 - Joyce Cary
Anglo-Irish novelist and artist who chronicled his childhood in the fictionalised memoir A House of Children.







1928 - Noam Chomsky
American linguist, philosopher, author and prominent cultural figure.










1943 - Susan Isaacs
American novelist, all of whose books have been New York Times bestsellers.










1973 - Kelly Barnhill
American author of children's literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Her novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon was awarded the 2017 Newbery Medal.





Died:
1949 - Rex Beach
1970 - Rube Goldberg
1975 - Thornton Wilder
1985 - Robert Graves

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