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Archive for March, 2002A Week in Literary HistoryMarch 31st, 2002 English novelist John Fowles (The Magus, 1965) is born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in 1926.
Before he became famous (and rich) with The French Lieutenant’s Woman in 1969, Fowles wrote two very good books. Thereafter, he lapsed into a decadent life as a chronicler of his adopted town of Lyme Regis and a windy, unreadable “great” novelist. His greatest literary service was in recommending that G.B. Edwards’s incomparable The Book of Ebenezer Le Page be published in 1981. Suggested Reading Novels The Collector, 1963. The Magus, 1968 (unfortunately revised in 1977). The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1969.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryMarch 31st, 2002 Ukrainian novelist Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (Dead Souls, 1842) is born in Velyki Sorochyntsi in 1809. Nikolai Gogol, b. March 31, 1809, d. 1852
Suggested Reading Novels Dead Souls, 1842. Taras Bulba, 1842. Short stories The Nose, 1836. The Overcoat, 1842. Plays The Inspector General, 1836. The Marriage, 1842.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryMarch 30th, 2002 Irish dramatist and memoirist Seán O’Casey (Juno and the Paycock, 1924) is born John Casey in Dublin in 1880.
In a career that knew more disappointments than triumphs, O’Casey continued to write plays, thirty of them in all, espousing his Irish nationalist and socialist beliefs and sometimes the life of Ireland’s common people. His six-volume autobiography was turned into a film the year after his death, directed by John Ford and featuring Maggie Smith, Julie Christie, Edith Evans, and Michael Redgrave. Suggested Reading Plays The Shadow of a Gunman, 1923. Juno and the Paycock, 1024. The Plough and the Stars, 1926. The silver Tassie, 1927. The End of the Beginning, 1937. Red Roses for Me, 1942. Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, 1949. Autobiography Mirror in My House, 6 volumes, 1939-56.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryMarch 28th, 2002 American novelist Frederick Exley (A Fan’s Notes, 1968) is born in 1929. Frederick Exley, b. March 28, 1929, d. 1992
Suggested Reading Novels A Fan’s Notes, 1968. Pages From a Cold Island, 1975. Last Notes From Home, 1988.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryMarch 27th, 2002 American novelist Rebecca Brown (The Children’s Crusade, 1989) is born in Seattle in 1956. Rebecca Brown, b. March 27, 1956
Suggested Reading Books The Haunted House, 1984 and 2007. The Children’s Crusade, 1989. Annie Oakley’s Girl, 1993. The Gifts of the Body, 1995. What Keeps Me Here, 1996. The End of Youth, 2003. The Last Time I Saw You, 2006.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryMarch 26th, 2002 Much-honored American poet Robert (Lee) Frost (New Hampshire, 1923) is born in San Francisco, 1874. Robert Frost, b. March 26, 1874, d. 1963
Suggested Reading A Boy’s Will, 1913. North of Boston, 1914. Mountain Interval, 1916. New Hampshire, 1923. West-running Brook, 1928. A Further Range, 1936. A Witness Tree, 1942. A Masque of Reason, 1945. Steeple Bush, 1947. A Masque of Mercy, 1947. In the Clearing, 1962.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryMarch 26th, 2002 In 1911, influential American playwright Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams (The Glass Menagerie, 1944) is born in Columbus, Miss. Tennessee Williams, b. March 26, 1911, d. 1983
Suggested Reading Plays The Glass Menagerie, 1945. A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947. The Rose Tattoo, 1951. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955. Suddenly Last Summer, 1958. Night of the Iguana, 1961. Other Memoirs, 1975. Where I Live: Selected Essays, 1978. Collected Stories, 1994.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryMarch 26th, 2002 Popular English poet A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman (A Shropshire Lad, 1896) is born in 1859 in Fockbury, Worcestershire. A.E. Housman, b. March 26, 1859 d. 1936
Suggested Reading Poems A Shropshire Lad, 1896. Last Poems, 1922. More Poems, 1936.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryMarch 25th, 2002 American short story writer (Mary) Flannery O’Connor (A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Other Stories, 1955) is born in Savannah, Ga. in 1925. Flannery O’Connor, b. March 25, 1925, d. 1964
Suggested Reading Novels Wise Blood, 1949. The Violent Bear It Away, 1960. Stories The Artificial Nigger: And Other Tales, 1955. A Good Man is Hard to Find, 1955. Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryMarch 20th, 2002 British historian and travel writer William Dalrymple (In Xanadu, 1989) is born William Hamilton-Dalrymple in Scotland. William Dalrymple, b. March 20, 1965
Suggested Reading Travel & History In Xanadu, 1989. City of Djinns, 1994. From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium, 1997. The Age of Kali, 1998. White Mughals, 2002. Beghums, Thugs & White Mughals — The Journals of Fanny parkes, 2002. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, 2009.
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