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Tracy Kidder (1945-) was born in New York, NY on November 12, 1945. Read Orrin's review of House (1985) (Grade: B)
Roy Jenkins (1920-2003) was born in Abersychan,
Wales on November 11, 1920. Read Orrin's review of Churchill: A Biography (2001)
Carlos Fuentes (1928-) was born in Mexico City, MX on November 11, 1928. Read Orrin's review of The Old Gringo (1985)(Grade: C+)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., (1922-) was born in Indianapolis, IN on November
11, 1922. Read Orrin's review of Slaughterhouse-Five
(1969)(Grade: C)
Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born on November 11, 1821.
Read Orrin's review of Crime and Punishment (1866) (Grade: C)
Howard Fast (1914-) was born on November 11, 1914. Read Orrin's review of Spartacus (1951)
John Phillips Marquand (1893-1960) was born in Wilmington, DE on November 10, 1893. Read Orrin's review of his Pulitzer Prize winner The Late George Apley: a Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1937)(Grade: B)
Martin Luther, born in Eisleben [ICE-lay-ben], Saxony (1483). He was 33 when, "for the purpose of eliciting truth," he tacked his 95 thesesóor propositionsóonto the door of Wittenberg's castle church (October 31, 1517).
Roland Emmerich, director of The Patriot (2000), was born in Stuttgart, Germany on November 10, 1955.
Ivan Turgenev (1818-83) was born in Oryel, Russia on November 9, 1818. Read Orrin's review of Fathers and Sons (1862)(Grade: A+)
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) was born in Dublin, IRE on November 8, 1847. Brothers Judd recommends his seminal horror masterpiece Dracula (1897)
Margaret Mitchell (1900-49) was born in Atlanta, GA on November 8, 1900. Brothers Judd recommends her mondo best seller Gone With the Wind (1936)
Albert Camus (1913-60) was born in Mondovi, Algeria on November 7, 1913. Read Orrin's review ofThe First Man (1995)(Grade: A+)
Arturo Sandoval (1949-) was born in Artemisa, Cuba on November 6, 1949. Read Orrin's review of For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000) (directed by Joseph Sargeant 1925-)
James Jones (1921-77) was born in Robinson, IL on November 6, 1921. Read
Orrin's review of his National Book Award winner From Here to Eternity (1957)(Grade: A+)(#62 on the Modern
Library Top 100 Novels of the Century)
Mike Nichols (1931-) was
born in Berlin, GER on November 6, 1931. Read Orrin's review
of What Planet Are You From? (2000)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was born in Cummington, MA on November 3, 1794. You assuredly remember reading Thanatopsis
in school.
Bette Bao Lord, author of In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (1987), was born in Shanghai, China on November 3, 1938
 James Knox Polk (1795-1849) was born in Mecklenburg County, NC on November 2, 1795.
Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) was born in Corsica (now Blooming Grove), OH on November 2, 1865.
Phil Woods, the great jazz alto sax player, was born November 2, 1931 in Springfield, MA. Best known by the casual listener for his solo on Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are,” Woods is one of the great bop sax players.
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was born in Newark, NJ on November 1, 1871. Read Orrin's review of The Red Badge of Courage (1895)(Grade: A)
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther set off the Protestant Reformation when he posted his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace.
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (1932-) was born in Qing Jiang, Jiangsu, China on October 31, 1932. Read
Orrin's review of Bridge to Terabithia (1977)
Don Winslow (1953-) was born in New York, NY on October 31, 1953. Read Orrin's review of A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991)
John Adams (1735-1826) was born in Braintree, MA on October 30, 1735. In one of life's more delightful ironies, he and his friend and rival Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4th, 1826, the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration which they cowrote.
Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972) was born in Hailey, ID on October 30, 1885.
Henry Green (Henry Vincent Yorke)(1905-73) was born in Tewkesbury, England on October 29, 1905. Read Orrin's review of Loving (1945)
James Boswell (1740-95) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 29, 1740. His Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) essentially created the modern biography.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born on in London, England on October 28, 1903. Read Orrin's reviews of A Handful of Dust (1934)(Grade: B) Scoop (1937)(Grade: B+), Brideshead Revisited (1945)(Grade: C) and The Loved One (1948) (Grade: A)
Dylan Thomas (1914-53) was born in Swansea, Wales on October 27, 1914. He is best remembered for his poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and A Child's Christmas in Wales (1955) (Grade: A)
Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, MA on October 27, 1932. Brothers Judd recommends her book The Bell Jar (1963), bad reviews for which were supposedly the proximate cause of her decision to kill herself.
Francis Fukuyama (1952-) was born in Chicago, IL on October 27, 1952. Read Orrin's review ofThe End of History and the Last Man (1992) (Grade: A+)
Pat Conroy, born in Atlanta on October 26, 1945
Beryl Markham (1902-1986) was born in Melton Mowbray, England on October 26, 1902. Read Orrin's review of her extraordinary memoirWest With the Night (1941) (Grade: A+)
Anne Tyler (1941-) was born in Minneapolis on October 25, 1941. Read Orrin's review of Breathing
Lessons (1988)(Grade: C)
Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson)(1888-1950) was born in Russia on October 23, 1888. Brothers Judd recommends the movie The Jolson Story (1946) and the album On Broadway
Doris Lessing (1919-) was born in Iran on October 22, 1919. Read Orrin's
review of The Golden Notebook (1962)(Grade: F).
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