4月24： Anthony Trollope, Daniel Defoe, Willem de Kooning, Barbra Streisand, Wilella Sibert Cather, Robert M. Pirsig, Hogarth Press
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- 1815 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (d. 1882)
Anthony Trollope was born in London, England on this day in 1815.
"'I think it is so glorious,' said the American. 'There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty'."
--from THE DUKE'S CHILDREN (1879)
--from THE DUKE'S CHILDREN (1879)
Born on this day in Rotterdam, Holland, Willem de Kooning left school at sixteen and apprenticed with a firm of commercial artists and decorators. In 1926, he moved to New York, where his first job was as a house painter. He quickly developed a highly individual style that is characterized by his "allover" approach to the composition and his thick, energetic application of paint.
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Robert M. Pirsig - Wikipedia
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Robert Maynard Pirsig (September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher, and the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art ...
"The book is brilliant beyond belief," wrote Morrow editor James Landis before publication. "It is probably a work of genius and will, I'll wager, attain classic status."
Published after being rejected by more than 100 other publishers, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was the father-son story of a motorcycle trip across the western United States with its protagonist setting "out to resolve the conflict between classic values that create machinery, such as a motorcycle, and romantic values, such as experiencing the beauty of a country road”.
Robert M. Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” won him the adulation of general readers and drove him into seclusion. He emerged now and then to lament that the academic world wasn’t taking his philosophy more seriously.
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"Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself."
--from ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719)
Today is the 286th anniversary of the death of English writer Daniel Defoe, best known for his novel ROBINSON CRUSOE, which today is considered one of the earliest modern novels in English. Everyone knows the original story, but the book had multiple sequels, in the course of which Crusoe traveled to Madagascar, Siberia and the Far East.
Defoe was also a trader, a prolific pamphleteer (he was pilloried in 1703 for his political writings) and, most arrestingly (so to speak), a spy.
1731, Daniel Defoe died in London.
Defoe's influence on the evolution of the English novel was enormous, and many regard him as the first true novelist. He was a master of plain prose and powerful narrative, with a journalist's curiosity and love of realistic detail; his peculiar gifts made him one of the greatest reporters of his time, as well as a great imaginative writer who in 'Robinson Crusoe' created one of the most familiar and resonant myths of modern literature.
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Born: December 7, 1873, Gore, Virginia, United States
Died: April 24, 1947, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Full name: Wilella Sibert Cather
Wilella Sibert Cather died in Manhattan, New York on this day in 1947 (aged 73).
"The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boy's mouth had become so bitter; because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness."
--from O PIONEERS! by Willa Cather (1913)
--from O PIONEERS! by Willa Cather (1913)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/24/a-publisher-of-ones-own-virginia-and-leonard-woolf-and-the-hogarth-press
Hogarth House in Richmond, where Virginia and Leonard Woolf founded the Hogarth Press on 24 April 1917. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
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