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2 days ago · Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
May 11, 2024 · George Carlin became the first posthumous honoree when he died in ... followed the next year by then-44-year-old ... Wouldn’t it be something if the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize gave ...
6 days ago · Wrote His Life of Toil—His Experience as Sailor Reflected in His Fiction—'Call of the Wild' Gave Him His Fame." 'The New York Times,' story datelined Santa Rosa, Cal., Nov. 22; appeared November 24, 1916, p. 13. States he died 'at 7:45 o'clock tonight,' and says he was 'born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876.' The Jack London Online ...
3 days ago · Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ ɜːr n ɪ s t ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ /; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image.
2 days ago · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
4 days ago · It was a floatin' palace, boy, that showboat called The Stage, and granddad was the king of it when he was just my age Mark Twain, it's two fathoms deep below. Mark Twain, heave the gang plank. Start the show. Mark Twain, play those banjos as we go down the Mississippi, 'round the Gulf of Mexico. Rise to fame (1956–1958)
2 days ago · The Philippine–American War, [13] known alternatively as the Philippine Insurrection, Filipino–American War, [a] or Tagalog Insurgency, [14] [15] [16] was fought between the First Philippine Republic and the United States from February 4, 1899, until July 2, 1902. [17] Tensions arose after the United States annexed the Philippines under the ...
