January 28, 2008

Reader’s Almanac: 1/28

Born today: John Baskerville, printer, bookseller, Wolverley, England, 1706; Sabine Baring-Gould, author, vicar, Exeter, England, 1834; Henry Morton Stanley (ps. John Rowlands), journalist, explorer, author, Denbigh, Denbigshire, Wales, 1841; José Martí, poet, revolutionary, Dos Rios, Cuba, 1853; (Sidonie Gabrielle) Colette, novelist, Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, 1873; David Lodge, novelist, scholar, London, 1935.

Died: Thomas Bodley, dipolomat, scholar, library founder, London, 1613; Henri Murger, novelist, Paris, 1861; Vicente Ibanez, author, Menton, France, 1928; William Butler Yeats, poet, playwright, essayist, Roquebrune, France, 1939; Zora Neale Hurston, author, anthropologist, Fort Pierce, Fla., 1960; Josephine Herbst, novelist, journalist, New York City, 1969; Joseph Brodsky, poet, New York City, 1996; Astrid Lindgren, children's author, Stockholm, Sweden, 2002; Lucien Carr, Beat Generation muse, Washington, 2005.

Quote: If I wrote about the stories of nice people who lived in Hollywood, everyone would be bored to tears by page 2. — Jackie Collins

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