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Archive for January, 2002A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 23rd, 2002 French novelist Stendhal (The Red and the Black, 1830) is born Marie-Henri Beyle in Grenoble, 1783. Stendhal, b. January 23, 1783, d. 1842
Suggested Reading Novels The Red and the Black, 1830. The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839. Biography A Life of Napoleon, 1817-1818. A Life of Rossini, 1824. Non-fiction Racine and Shakespeare, 1823-1835. Autobiography Memoirs of an Egotist, 1892.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 22nd, 2002 Poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (Don Juan, 1819-24) is born with a club foot in London, 1788. Lord Byron, b. January 22, 1788, d. 1824
Suggested Reading Poems She Walks in Beauty, 1814. My Soul is Dark, 1815. So, we’ll go no more a roving, 1830. Major Works English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1809. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 1812-1818. The Prisoner of Chillon, 1816. Prometheus, 1816. Manfred, 1817. Don Juan, 1819-1824.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 19th, 2002 English novelist Julian Barnes (Flaubert’s Parrot, 1984) is born in Leicester in 1946. Julian Barnes, b. January 19, 1946
Suggested Reading Novels Metroland, 1980. Flaubert’s Parrot, 1984. A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters, 1989. Talking It Over, 1991. England, England, 1998. Love, etc, 2000. Arthur & George, 2005. The Sense of an Ending, 2011. Memoir Nothing to Be Frightened Of, 2008.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 19th, 2002 In 1921, American novelist Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1955) is born Mary Patricia Plangman just outside Fort Worth, Texas. Patricia Highsmith, b. January 19, 1921, d. 1995
Suggested Reading Novels Strangers on a Train, 1950. The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1955. A Game for the Living, 1958. The Tremor of Forgery, 1969. Ripley Under Ground, 1970. Ripley’s Game, 1974. The Boy Who Followed Ripley, 1980. Ripley Under Water, 1991. Stories The Snail-Watcher and Other Stories, 1970. Little Tales of Misogyny, 1974. Mermaids on the Gold Course, 1985.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 19th, 2002 In 1809, American poet and writer of tales Edgar Allan Poe ("The Raven," “The Tell-Tale Heart”) is born in Boston. Edgar Allan Poe, b. January 19, 1809, d. 1849
Suggested Reading Poems Tamerlane and Other Poems, 1827. Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, 1829. Poems, 1831. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. Eureka: A Prose Poem, 1848. Short stories Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840. Tales, 1845. Novella The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 1838.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 19th, 2002 Theater critic, essayist and Algonquin Round Table habitué Alexander Woollcott (While Rome Burns, 1934) is born in Phalanx, N.J., in 1887. To Heywood Broun he is ”the smartest of Alecs”; to James Thurber, “Old Vitriol and Violets.” Alexander Woollcott, b. January 19, 1887, d. 1943
Suggested Reading Books & Collected Essays Château-Thierry, 1919. Command is Forward, 1919. Shouts and Murmurs, 1922. Going to Pieces, 1928. Two Gentlemen and a Lady, 1928. Woollcott Reader, 1935. Good Companions, 1936. While Rome Burns, 1936. Woollcott’s Second Reader, 1937. Dark Tower: A Melodrama, 1937. Long, Long Ago, 1943. Letters of Alexander Woollcott, 1972. Enchanted Aisles, 1975.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 18th, 2002 Swiss-English thesaurist Peter Mark Roget (Roget’s Thesaurus, 1852) is born in London in 1779.
Roget started his thesaurus as a hobby when he was in his twenties, but he began work on it seriously after some family deaths plunged him into depression; his father and his wife died young, and an uncle committed suicide in his presence. He finished and published his magnum opus when he was in his seventies, and it has been a help to writers ever since. Suggested Reading Works Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition, 1852.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 16th, 2002 Scottish poet Robert Service, who will later become Bard of the Yukon and die in France, is born in Preston, Lancashire in 1874.
Service’s famous Yukon Territory poems grew out of the decade he spent as a bank manager in Whitehorse. Once The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Cremation of Sam McGee, and the others were published in 1907, he became a very wealthy man and lived the rest of his life in either Brittany or Hollywood. In Paris during the Hemingway-Fitzgerald-Proust-Joyce years, he had a lot more money than the rest of them combined. Suggested Reading Verse The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, 1907. The Rhymes of a Red-cross Man, 1916. Memoir Ploughman of the Moon, 1945.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 16th, 2002 American novelist William Kennedy (Ironweed, 1983) is born in 1928 in Albany, N.Y. William Kennedy, b. January 16, 1928
Suggested Reading Novels The Ink Truck, 1969. The Albany novels Legs, 1975. Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, 1978. Ironweed, 1983. Quinn’s Book, 1988. Very Old Bones, 1992. The Flaming Corsage, 1996. Roscoe, 2002. Non-fiction O Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristrocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels, 1983.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 15th, 2002 French comic dramatist Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière (The Misanthrope, 1666), is baptized in Paris in 1622. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, baptised January 15, 1622, d. 1673
Suggested Reading Plays L’École des femmes, 1662. Tartuffe, 1664. Dom Juan, 1665. Le Misanthrope, 1666. Le Médecin malgré lui, 1666. L’Avare, 1668. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, 1670. Le Malade imaginaire, 1673.
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