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1. He was only the third American to win a second Pulitzer Prize in the fiction category.
2. His first story was published in the New Yorker at the age of 22.
3. He wrote The Witches of Eastwick (1984), which was turned into a movie in 1987 starring Cher, Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon. In 2009, it was turned into a television show starring Rebecca Romijn.
4. He won a Knox fellowship for study at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford University.
5. He began his career as a poet in 1958 by publishing his first volume, a collection of poems titled The Carpentered Hen.
In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play Mahjong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and “say” stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother’s lifelong wish-and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation of this secret unleashes an urgent need among the women to reach back and remember… In this extraordinary first work of fiction, Amy Tan writes about what is lost-over the years, between generations, among friends-and what is saved. Their stories told within this book ultimately display the double happiness that can be found in being both Chinese and American.
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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“Jonathan Safran Foer confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination.”
Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, and pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone’s heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who’ve lost loved ones before.
As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father’s grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother’s apartment. They are there to dig up his father’s empty coffin.
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The male narrator opens by acknowledging “many stories have been told, songs sung, about the Thin Man and the Fat Lady,” suggesting in addition that they are a metaphor for male and female relations. Despite the conventional nature of the duo, they stand for something larger. “We are all Thin Men. You are all Fat Ladies.”
In this telling, the Thin Man and the Fat Lady are circus freaks, each driven to try to change his or her condition to please the other. The Thin Man wants to put on muscle while the Fat Lady wants to lose weight. Yet their boss, the Ringmaster, demands they maintain their extremes. When the Thin Man starts gaining weight and the Fat Lady starts losing it, the Ringmaster threatens to take action against them.
This book contains some of Coover’s best short stories:
Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady
The Babysitter
A Pedestrian Accident
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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.
