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Archive for June, 2002A Week in Literary HistoryJune 28th, 2002 In 1908, evocative English travel writer Norman Lewis (A Goddess in the Stones, 1991) is born in Forty Hill, North London.
Lewis wrote novels all his long life, but he will be remembered for his vivid travelogues, in which he described in telling detail his voyages in Europe and Asia. His autobiographical writings, also imbued with his wanderings, paint a portrait of the ideal traveler: curious, sympathetic, and brave. Graham Greene called Lewis “one of the best writers, not of any particular decade, but of our century.” Suggested Reading Travel Spanish Adventure, 1935. Sand and Sea in Arabia, 1938. A Dragon Apparent, 1951. Golden Earth, 1952. The Honoured Society, 1964. The Missionaries, 1988. A Goddess in the Stones, 1991. An Empire of the East, 1993. In Sicily, 2000. Autobiography Naples ’44, 1978. Jackdaw Cake, 1985. The World, the World, 1996.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJune 25th, 2002 English novelist George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-four, 1949) is born Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal, 1903.
A tireless pamphleteer, critic and journalist, Orwell will be cherished forever for his clear, luminous prose style. As a novelist and memoirist, he stands almost alone among writers in English in the twentieth century for his unflagging commitment to social themes and for his prescience in lacerating the wrong turns taken in the world of politics. Suggested Reading Novels Burmese Days, 1934. Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 1936. Coming Up for Air, 1939. Animal Farm, 1945. Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949. Nonfiction Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933. The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937. Homage to Catalonia, 1938. The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, 1941. The English People, 1947.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJune 19th, 2002 American editor and author Elbert Hubbard (the Little Journey books) is born in 1856 in Bloomington, Ind. Elbert Hubbard, b. June 19, 1856, d. 1915
Suggested reading Anything you can find.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJune 14th, 2002 English novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron (Among the Russians, 1983) is born in London in 1939.
Thubron is the ideal travel writer: observant, sympathetic, and always seeking the larger meaning of the lands he explores. His clear and evocative prose never stands in the way of the landscape or the characters he finds awaiting him, and his novels, underrated, are models of quiet sensitivity. Travel & Non-fiction Mirror to Damascus, 1967. The Hills of Adonis: A Quest in Lebanon, 1968. Jerusalem, 1969. Journey into Cyprus, 1975. The God in the Mountain, 1977. The Venetians, 1980. The Ancient Mariners, 1981. The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1982. Among the Russians, 1983. Behind the Wall: A Journey through China, 1987. The Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom, 1989. The Lost Heart of Asia, 1994. In Siberia, 199. Shadows of the Silk Road, 2006. Novels Emperor, 1978. A Cruel Madness, 1984. Falling, 1989. Turning Back the Sun, 1991. Distance, 1996. To the Last City, 2002.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJune 10th, 2002 In 1928, American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are, 1963) is born in Brooklyn.
Sendak writes and illustrates for children, but his own books transcend the genre of children’s literature in their psychological depth and poetic beauty. Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen don’t take long to read (or to look at), yet they remain indelibly in the mind ever after because of their unerring feel for children’s basic emotions, conscious and subconscious. Also active as a set designer for plays and operas and as the factotum of his own theater, The Night Kitchen, Sendak is quite simply a profound writer and artist. Suggested Reading Written & illustrated Charlotte and the White Horse, 1955. Kenny’s Window, 1956. Where the Wild Things Are, 1964. Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water, 1965. In the Night Kitchen, 1970. The Nutshell Library (contains Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, Pierre, and Alligators All Around), 1986. Illustrated Robert Graves’s The Big Green Book, 1962. Poems from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence, 1967. Randall Jarrell’s The Animal Family, 1976. Jacob Grimm’s King Grisly-Beard, 1978. Frank Corsaro’s The Love of Three Oranges, 1984. Herman Melville’s Pierre, or The Ambiguities, 1995.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJune 10th, 2002 American novelist Saul Bellow (The Adventures of Augie March, 1953) is born in 1915 in Lachine, Québec. In 1976 he will win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Winner of the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes and the National Book Award, Bellow transcends the label “Jewish writer” in his monumental Augie March and wildly imaginative Henderson the Rain King. He is the great American novelist of the second half of the twentieth century, a national treasure whose vivid, generous prose, crammed with intellectual energy and virile audacity, will live long after he is gone. Suggested Reading Novels Dangling Man, 1944. The Victim, 1947. The Adventures of Augie March, 1954. Seize the Day, 1956. Henderson the Rain King, 1959. Herzog, 1964. Mr. Sammler’s Planet, 1970. Humboldt’s Gift, 1975. The Dean’s December, 1982. Short fiction Mosby’s Memoirs and Other Stories, 1968. Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories, 1984. Nonfiction To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account, 1976. It All Adds Up, 1994.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJune 2nd, 2002 English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (Jude the Obscure, 1899) is born in Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester, in 1840. Thomas Hardy, b. June 2, 1840 d. 1928
Suggested Reading Novels A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1873. Far from the Madding Crowd, 1874. The Return of the Native, 1878. The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1886. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 1891. Jude the Obscure, 1895. Poetry Wessex Poems, 1898. Poems of the Past and Present, 1902. Satires of Circumstance, 1914. Moments of Vision, 1917. Collected Poems, 1930.
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