Literary authors born this week: Initially: E. M. Forster, J. R. R. Tolkien, J. D. Salinger, E. L. Doctorow; also Isaac Asimov, Zora Neale Hurston, and Umberto Eco.
Poets and Playwrights: Carl Sandburg and Christopher Durang.
Nobel prizewinners: Rudolf Eucken (1908) and Gao Xingjian. (2000).
Thinkers, doers, and other well known authors: Cicero, Isaac Newton, Jacob Grimm, Heinrich Schliemann, Kahlil Gibran, Alan Watts, Charles Addams, B. Kliban, James Frazer, Gerald Durrell, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Answer to Last Week’s Question: J. D. Salinger wrote several books and stories with characters from the Glass family, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour among them.This Week’s Question: When you’re too rushed on the way out of town to research anything, sometimes the opposite of literature happens. Why are all these authors with initials born in the same week? (There is no reasonable answer but we'd love to hear it if you have one. Don't forget B. Kliban, the cartoonist.) See you next week.
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