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On this day in 1956, Sylvia Plath meets her future husband, Ted Hughes, at a party in Cambridge, UK. The two poets fell in love at first sight and married four months later.
Plath and Hughes with their child
Her first poetry collection, Colossus, was published in 1960 to favorable reviews. After that, she moved to London and wrote dozens of her best poems in the winter of 1962. Her only novel, The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical account of a college girl who works at a magazine in New York and suffers a breakdown, was published in early 1963, but received mediocre reviews.
This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of February. Check them out below.
(Top L-R) Amy Tan, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wilhelm Grimm, Charles Lamb, Johnston McCulley (Bottom L-R) Jules Verne, John Steinbeck, Victor Hugo, Susan Hill, James Joyce
James Joyce
(February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941)
Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. He is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer’s Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilized. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
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Johnston McCulley
(February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958)
was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro.
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Robert Coover
(February 4, 1932 – )
Coover is an American author and professor emeritus in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. He is most noted for the Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady.
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Susan Hill
(February 5, 1942 – )
Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her most noted novel is The Woman in Black which was turned into a film in 2012. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
(February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957)
Wilder was an American writer, most notably the author of the Little House on the Prairie books of children’s novels based on her childhood in a settler family. Her daughter encouraged her to write and helped her to edit and publish the novels.
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Jules Verne
(February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905)
Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. One of his most popular books is Around the World in Eighty Days.
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Charles Lamb
(February 10, 1775 – December 27, 1834)
Lamb was an English writer and essayist, best known for the children’s book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb.
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Amy Tan
(February 19, 1952 – )
Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Her best-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
(February 21, 1977 – )
Safran Foer is an American writer. He is best known for his novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) which was adapted into a film in 2011.
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Wilhelm Grimm
(February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859)
Grimm was a German author, the younger of the Brothers Grimm. He is best known for writing, with his brother, Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
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Victor Hugo
(February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885)
Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo’s literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Outside France, his best-known work is the acclaimed novel Les Misérables (1862).
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John Steinbeck
(February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)
Steinbeck was an American author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939), widely attributed to be part of the American literary canon, is considered Steinbeck’s masterpiece. In the first 75 years since it was published, it sold 14 million copies.
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Foer started writing his first novel, the critically acclaimed Everything is Illuminated, as part of his senior thesis at Princeton University, New Jersey.
The New Yorker magazine included Foer on its list of “20 Under 40,” young writers who were world-changers.
Foer became a vegetarian activist and wrote a satiric piece about cooking and eating dogs.
It’s impossible not to notice the similarities between the characters Oskar Schell (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) and Oskar Matzerath, the protagonist of Gunter Grass’s The Tin Drum. They’re both intelligent kids of German descent coping with trauma (Oskar M. never leaves home without his drum) who conjure up fantasies to deal with the horrible events they’ve witnessed. Foer was hugely influenced by this novel.
Jonathan Safran Foer gave the 2013 commencement address at Middlebury College in Vermont. NPR included it on its list of “The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever.” Below, is the video of that speech:
Alessandro Volta is the inventor of one of the most important inventions to date. Google celebrates the battery inventor’s birthday today.
If you click on Google’s doodle, it shows battery charging and Google lighting up at the same time.
He was born in Como, Italy, and grew to become a professor of physics at the Royal School. His interest in electricity paved the way to the invention of electrophorus, a device used to generate static electricity.
He also was the first person to isolate methane which further led to the discovery that methane mixed with air could be exploded with an electric spark.
In honor of Volta’s contribution to electrical science, the unit of electrical potential came to be known as the Volt also known as Voltage.
Alessandro Volta was also a master in many languages. He was proficient in Latin, French, German, and English helped him while travelling across Europe.
Safran Foer is an American writer. He is best known for his novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) which was adapted into a film in 2011. He currently teaches creative writing at New York University.
Enjoy the interview below where Safran Foer talks about the power of literature in general and poetry in particular.
The book reduced the archaic English and complicated storyline of Shakespeare to a simple level that children and adults could read and comprehend. However, as noted in the author’s Preface, “his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided.”
Mary Lamb was responsible for the comedies, while Charles wrote the tragedies; they wrote the preface between them. Next to his essays, this book is his best-known work; yet its success is attributable more to Mary, whose name did not appear on the title page of the first few editions, than to Charles.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Brothers Grimm: The Complete Fairy Tales
For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children — and adults — learn about the vagaries of the real world.
The work of the Brothers Grimm influenced other collectors, both inspiring them to collect tales and leading them to similarly believe, in a spirit of romantic nationalism, that the fairy tales of a country were particularly representative of it, to the neglect of cross-cultural influence. Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, the English Joseph Jacobs, and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales.
James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.
Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work which follows the movements of Leopold Bloom through a single day in 1904. Ulysses is based on Homer’s Odyssey. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
Enjoy a video below about Bloomsday, a celebration that takes place both in Dublin and around the world. It celebrates Thursday, 16 of June 1904, which is the day depicted in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.
This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of January. Check them out below.
(Top L-R) Stella Gibbons, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Isaac Asimov, Jack London, J.D. Salinger, Wilkie Collins (Bottom L-R) Jacob Grimm, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Lewis Carroll, W. Somerset Maugham, Magdalen Nabb
J.D. Salinger
(January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010)
Jerome David “J. D.” Salingerwas an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. His novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951) brought him a lot of public attention-which he did not like. He published Franny and Zooey in 1961 and gave his last interview in 1980.
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E. M. Forster
(January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970)
Edward Morgan Forster was an English novelist, short story writer and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster’s 1924 novel, A Passage to India brought him his greatest success.
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Isaac Asimov
(January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992)
Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books, such as I, Robot. Asimov was prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards and was considered one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers during his lifetime.
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Jacob Grimm
(January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863)
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm’s Law, and as one of the Brothers Grimm (with his brother Wilhelm), as the editor of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
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Stella Gibbons
(January 5, 1902 – December 19, 1989)
Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which won the literary Prix Femina Étranger and has been reprinted many times.
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Wilkie Collins
(January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889)
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known work isThe Woman in White.
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Jack London
(January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)
John Griffith “Jack” London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild, set in the Klondike Gold Rush.
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Magdalen Nabb
(January 16, 1947 – August 18, 2007)
Nabb was a British author, best known for the Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels such as Death of an Englishman.
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Edgar Allan Poe
(January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)
Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. His most famous works include The Tell-Tale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Masque of the Red Death and The Pit and the Pendulum.
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Edith Wharton
(January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937)
Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. The Age of Innocence was Wharton’s twelfth book which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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W. Somerset Maugham
(January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965)
William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. He is most remembered for his novels:Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, The Painted Veil and The Summing Up.
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Lewis Carroll
(January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
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William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.
His most notable works include:
Of Human Bondage
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099284963
After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.
Price: 10,9 GEL
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The Moon and Sixpence
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099284765
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honor gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.
Price: 10,9 GEL
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The Summing Up
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099286899
The Summing Up is a literary memoir by W. Somerset Maugham, written when he was 64 years old, first published in 1938. It covered his life from 1890-1938.
Price: 10,9 GEL
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Theatre
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099286837
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of a shy and eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love.
Price: 10,9 GEL
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The Painted Veil
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099507390
When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.
The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.
Price: 10,9 GEL
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