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December 27
1908 Danny Ramsay, like any boy where it' cold enough to snow, has a sense of when a snowball is coming, and so, naturally, he ducks, and the snowball, carrying inside it an egg-shaped stone hidden there by his antagonist, Percy Staunton, instead hits Mrs. Mary Dempster, the pregnant young wife of the Baptist minister, knocking her to the ground, bringing on a lifelong madness, and hastening the ...
— Jan 11, 2026 06:40AM
1908 Danny Ramsay, like any boy where it' cold enough to snow, has a sense of when a snowball is coming, and so, naturally, he ducks, and the snowball, carrying inside it an egg-shaped stone hidden there by his antagonist, Percy Staunton, instead hits Mrs. Mary Dempster, the pregnant young wife of the Baptist minister, knocking her to the ground, bringing on a lifelong madness, and hastening the ...
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Judi
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April 8
1928 "Never you mind," Dilsey tells her daughter, who is ashamed of her mother's open weeping as they walk from church on Easter Sunday. "I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de ending." For "April 8, 1928," the final section of The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner stepped back from the voices of the three Compton brothers who had told the tale of their family's decline to that point. He gave the story ...
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1928 "Never you mind," Dilsey tells her daughter, who is ashamed of her mother's open weeping as they walk from church on Easter Sunday. "I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de ending." For "April 8, 1928," the final section of The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner stepped back from the voices of the three Compton brothers who had told the tale of their family's decline to that point. He gave the story ...
Judi
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April 7
1935 While John Dos Passos filmed the proceedings, Ernest Hemingway shot himself through both legs when a bullet ricocheted that was meant to kill a shark they had hooked onboard,
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1935 While John Dos Passos filmed the proceedings, Ernest Hemingway shot himself through both legs when a bullet ricocheted that was meant to kill a shark they had hooked onboard,
Judi
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April 6
1934 M.F.K. Fisher, having "settled at a steady pacer of about fifteen pages at a time," read Ulysses on the beach at Laguna, occasionally turning herself "neatly to brown on both sides in the sun." Later, she made a chocolate cake.
— Apr 19, 2026 07:38AM
1934 M.F.K. Fisher, having "settled at a steady pacer of about fifteen pages at a time," read Ulysses on the beach at Laguna, occasionally turning herself "neatly to brown on both sides in the sun." Later, she made a chocolate cake.
Judi
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April 5
1936 By the time of the elaborate Founders's Day festivities at the Tuskegee Institute, there years after he arrived from Oklahoma City as an eager and optimistic music major, Ralph Ellison had soured on the college and turned his interests to literature, so he listened to the language of the featured speaker with a sceptical but attentive ear. The speaker was Dr. Emmett J. Scott, the longtime right-hand ...
— Apr 19, 2026 07:09AM
1936 By the time of the elaborate Founders's Day festivities at the Tuskegee Institute, there years after he arrived from Oklahoma City as an eager and optimistic music major, Ralph Ellison had soured on the college and turned his interests to literature, so he listened to the language of the featured speaker with a sceptical but attentive ear. The speaker was Dr. Emmett J. Scott, the longtime right-hand ...
Judi
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April 4
1924 No one was entirely happy when Mabel Dodge Luhan, whose bohemian magnetism drew D.H. and Frieda Lawrence—among many other writers and artists—to Taos, New Mexico, took a run-down ranch she had given her son and bestowed it on Frieda instead. The Lawrences did enjoy being homeowners for the first time in their restless lives but felt beholden to Luhan, so in exchange they gave her the manuscript to ...
— Apr 18, 2026 05:40PM
1924 No one was entirely happy when Mabel Dodge Luhan, whose bohemian magnetism drew D.H. and Frieda Lawrence—among many other writers and artists—to Taos, New Mexico, took a run-down ranch she had given her son and bestowed it on Frieda instead. The Lawrences did enjoy being homeowners for the first time in their restless lives but felt beholden to Luhan, so in exchange they gave her the manuscript to ...
Judi
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April 3
1920 Zelda Sayre, the daughter of Anthony Dickinson Sayre, justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, and Minerva Machen Sayre, of Montgomery, Alabama, wed Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the son of Edward Fitzgerald, formerly of Proctor & Gamble, and Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald of St. Paul, Minnesota, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Mahattan. The bride was a graduate of Sidney Lanier Hight School; the groom ...
— Apr 18, 2026 05:34AM
1920 Zelda Sayre, the daughter of Anthony Dickinson Sayre, justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, and Minerva Machen Sayre, of Montgomery, Alabama, wed Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the son of Edward Fitzgerald, formerly of Proctor & Gamble, and Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald of St. Paul, Minnesota, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Mahattan. The bride was a graduate of Sidney Lanier Hight School; the groom ...
Judi
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April 2
1913 Kurt Wolff, Franz Kafka's new publisher, wrote to the author, "Please be good enough to send me a copy or the manuscript of the bedbug story."
— Apr 18, 2026 05:15AM
1913 Kurt Wolff, Franz Kafka's new publisher, wrote to the author, "Please be good enough to send me a copy or the manuscript of the bedbug story."
Judi
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April 1
1956 On the morning of April Fool's Day Edward Abbey began his first workday as a national park ranger by stepping out of his government trailer and watching the sun rise over the canyon lands of Arches National Monument in Noah, Utah. Outfitted with trailer, truck, ranger shirt, tin badge and five hundred gallons of water, Abbey was left more or less alone for six months, which he recorded journals ...
— Apr 17, 2026 05:23AM
1956 On the morning of April Fool's Day Edward Abbey began his first workday as a national park ranger by stepping out of his government trailer and watching the sun rise over the canyon lands of Arches National Monument in Noah, Utah. Outfitted with trailer, truck, ranger shirt, tin badge and five hundred gallons of water, Abbey was left more or less alone for six months, which he recorded journals ...
Judi
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March 31
1934 "I should like to meet the pilgrim halfway," Marianne Moore wrote to her friend Ann Borden a librarian at Vassar who had a young poetical "protégée" who wanted to meet the famous poet. And so Miss Moore came in from Brooklyn and met Elizabeth Bishop, the Vassar senior, at the New York Public Library, where Bishop overcame her nerves enough to invite Moore to the circus. Moore replied that she ...
— Apr 16, 2026 11:27AM
1934 "I should like to meet the pilgrim halfway," Marianne Moore wrote to her friend Ann Borden a librarian at Vassar who had a young poetical "protégée" who wanted to meet the famous poet. And so Miss Moore came in from Brooklyn and met Elizabeth Bishop, the Vassar senior, at the New York Public Library, where Bishop overcame her nerves enough to invite Moore to the circus. Moore replied that she ...
Judi
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March 30
1935 Clifton Fadiman, in the New Yorker, on William Faulkner's Pylon: "I've read it twice, once slowly and again in a burst of desperate speed, on the assumption that the first time I might not have seen the forest for the trees. It has lived me a dozen ways. Reaction analysis: one part repulsion, one part terror, one part admiration, three parts puzzlement, four parts boredom.
— Apr 16, 2026 08:04AM
1935 Clifton Fadiman, in the New Yorker, on William Faulkner's Pylon: "I've read it twice, once slowly and again in a burst of desperate speed, on the assumption that the first time I might not have seen the forest for the trees. It has lived me a dozen ways. Reaction analysis: one part repulsion, one part terror, one part admiration, three parts puzzlement, four parts boredom.
