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Birthday: "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."

William Boyd Watterson II (1958- ) Author, Illustrator He started cartooning at eight, and drew like a madman for thirty years. ...
Birthday: John Callahan was destined to be in pictures.

John Michael Callahan (1951-2010) Cartoonist Of all the orbits into which I’ve been briefly drawn as a human asteroid, one of th...
Birthday: Too much success made Somerset Maugham insufferable

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) Author, playwright Maugham’s was one of the longest and most successful, literary careers ...
Today in Literary Criticism: the Georgia Literature Commission, America's last experiment in official censorship.

Today in 1953, the Georgia Literature Commission set up shop. For twenty years, seven men labored to stanch the flow of paperbacks “so b...
Birthday: Anne Sexton, a troubled, brilliant poet who said, “As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.”

Anne Gray Harvey Sexton (1928-1974) Poet Recipient, The Pulitzer Prize Recipient, Guggenheim and Ford Foundation Fellowships...
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Birthday: "Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help."

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (1921-1992) Writer and journalist If Alex Haley had never written Roots, he would still have been rem...
Birthday: "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength," Eric Hoffer always said.

Eric Hoffer (c. 1900-1983) Longshoreman, philosopher He was the sort of man who could only have evolved in the pre-Cold War day...
Birthday: at 88, James Watson remains a bitter, rarely acquired taste

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mother...
“Listen;” e e cummings said, “there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.”

Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962) Poet Recipient, The Guggenheim Fellowship (1933; 1951); The Shelley Memorial Poetry Award (...

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