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Archive for February, 2002A Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 28th, 2002 American Nobel novelist John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath, 1939) is born in Salinas, Calif. John Steinbeck, b. February 27, 1902, d. 1968
Suggested Reading Novels Of Mice and Men, 1937. The Grapes of Wrath, 1939. Cannery Row, 1945. East of Eden, 1952. Other Travels with Charley: In Search of America, 1962.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 28th, 2002 French essayist Michel de Montaigne (Essays, 1580) is born near Bordeaux in 1533. Michel de Montaigne, b. February 28, 1533, d. 1592
Suggested Reading Essays, 1580-88.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 25th, 2002 English novelist Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange, 1962) is born in 1917 in Manchester. Anthony Burgess, b. February 25, 1917, d. 1993
Suggested Reading Novels A Clockwork Orange, 1961. The Wanting Seed, 1962. The Enderby books (Inside Mr. Enderby, 1963. Enderby Outside, 1968. A Clockwork Testament, or Enderby’s End, 1974. Enderby’s Dark Lady, 1984.) The Eve of St. Venus, 1964. A Tremor of Intent, 1966. Earthly Powers, 1980. About literature Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader, 1965. A Shorter Finnegans Wake, 1966. Shakespeare, 1970. Other A Mouthful of Air: Language, and Languages, Especially English, 1992. Autobiography Little Wilson and Big God, 1987. You’ve Had Your Time, 1990.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 25th, 2002 In 1940, American novelist Frank Chin (Donald Duk, 1991) is born in Berkeley, Calif. Frank Chin, b. February 25, 1940
Suggested Reading Drama The Chickencoop Chinaman, 1971. The Year of the Dragon, 1974. Novels The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co., 1988. Donald Duk, 1991. Gunga Din Highway, 1994. Nonfiction Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays, 1998. Born in the USA: A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947, 2002.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 24th, 2002 Irish novelist George Moore (Esther Waters, 1894) is born in 1852 in Ballyglass, County Mayo.
Moore is little read nowadays, but he was a pioneer in the use of realism in imaginative writing. He was the first to write about the Impressionist painters in Britain; his early short stories, influenced by Zola, preceded Joyce’s Dubliners; he wrote realistic plays dealing with Irish themes before Yeats and the others; and his early novels were the first of their kind in English literature. Esther Waters, his masterpiece, has been continuously, and deservedly, in print for more than a hundred years. Suggested Reading Novels A Modern Lover, 1883. A Mummer’s Wife, 1885. Esther Waters, 1894. Evelyn Innes, 1898. Short stories Celibates, 1895. The Untilled Field, 1903. Plays The Strike at Arlingford, 1893. The Bending of the Bough, 1900. Autobiography Confesssions of a Young Man, 1888. Memoirs of My Dead Life, 1906. Hail and Farewell, 1911-1914. Avowals, 1919. Conversations in Ebury Street, 1924. Other Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters, 1906.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 23rd, 2002 American writer John McPhee (Coming into the Country, 1977) is born in Princeton, N.J., 1931. John McPhee, b. March 8, 1931
Suggested Reading A Sense of Where You Are, 1965. The Headmaster, 1966. Oranges, 1967. The Pine Barrens, 1968. A Roomful of Hovings, 1968. Levels of the Game, 1969. The Crofter and the Laird, 1970. Encounters with the Archdruid, 1971. The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed, 1973. The Curve of Binding Energy, 1974. Pieces of the Frame, 1975. The Survival of the Bark Canoe, 1975. Coming into the Country, 1977. Giving Good Weight, 1979. Basin and Range, 1981. La Place de la Concorde Suisse, 1984. Table of Contents, 1985. The Control of Nature, 1989. Looking for a Ship, 1990. The Ransom of Russian Art, 1994. Irons in the Fire, 1997. The Founding Fish, 2002. Uncommon Carriers, 2006.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 23rd, 2002 English diarist Samuel Pepys is born in London in 1633. Samuel Pepys, b. February 23, 1633, d. 1703
Suggested Reading Diary, 1660-1669, first published in the nineteenth century.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 22nd, 2002 American illustrator and author Edward St. John Gorey (The Hapless Child, 1961) is born in 1925 in Chicago. Edward Gorey, b. February 22, 1925, d. 2000
Suggested Reading Collections Amphigorey, 1972. Amphigorey Too, 1975. Amphigorey Also, 1983. Amphigorey Again, 2006.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 21st, 2002 English poet W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (The Age of Anxiety, 1947) is born in York, 1907.
Auden will certainly be remembered as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, just as his compatriot and sometime collaborator Benjamin Britten will be remembered as one of its greatest composers. The two are alike in combining rigorous form with evocative and highly literate content. Auden, despite (or because of?) his wartime defection to America, became the poet of his age, its conscience and scribe. Suggested Reading Poetry Poems, 1930. The Orators, 1932. The Dance of Death, 1933. Poems, 1934. Look, Stranger, 1936. Spain, 1937. Another Time, 1940. The Double Man, 1941. For the Time Being, 1944. Collected Poetry, 1945. The Age of Anxiety, 1947. Some Poems, 1947. Nones, 1951. The Shield of Achilles, 1955. Homage to Clio, 1960. About the House, 1965. Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, 1966. City Without Walls, 1969. Epistle to a Godson, 1972. Thank You, Fog, 1974. Collected Poems, 1976. Essays The Dyer’s Hand, 1962. Forewords and Afterwords, 1973.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 19th, 2002 American short story writer and longtime expatriate Kay Boyle (The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories, 1936) is born in 1903 in St. Paul, Minn. Kay Boyle, b. February 19, 1902, d. 1992
Suggested Reading Stories Short Stories, 1929. Wedding Day and Other Stories, 1930. Thirty Stories, 1946. The Smoking Mountain: Stories of Germany During the Occupation, 1951. Fifty Stories, 1980. Other Three Short Novels, 1958. Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930, 1968. The Long Walk at San Francisco State and Other Essays, 1970. Words that Somehow Must Be Said: Selected Essays of Kay Boyle, 1927-1984, 1985.
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