December 14, 2006
Reader’s Almanac: 12/14
Born today: Aphra Behn, playwright, short-story writer, novelist, poet, spy, Harbledown, 1640; Roger Fry, art critic, London, 1866; Paul Eluard, poet, Paris, 1895; Shirley Jackson, novelist, short-story writer, San Francisco, 1916; Rosemary Sutcliff, historical novelist, East Clanden, Surrey, 1920; Amy Hempel, short-story writer, Chicago, 1951.
Died: Louis Agassiz, naturalist, geologist, Cambridge, Mass., 1873; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, novelist, short-story writer, St. Augustine, Fla., 1953; Walter Lippmann, journalist, political philosopher, New York City, 1974; Friedrich Durrenmatt, playwright, novelist, essayist, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1990; Trevanian (ps. Rodney Whitaker), novelist, West Country, England, 2005.
SPEEDLINKS:
Wordplay: The origins of "comes a cropper". Courtesy of Frank Wilson.
The myth of the perfect query letter: Hey, if you can't trust the literary agents from Dystel & Goderich, who can you trust?
Why artists should not have children: And by that, I mean Eddie Campbell, who's work on the Ripper graphic novel "From Hell," was closely observed by his daughter, Hayley, then 7. A little too closely, that is.
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