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June 10: André Derain, Saul Bellow





Saul Bellow was born on this day in 1915. Read his Art of Fiction interview here:

The interview “took place” over a period of several weeks. Beginning with some exploratory discussions during May of 1965, it was shelved during the summer, and actually accomplished…
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Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. Wikipedia
BornJune 10, 1915, Lachine, Canada
SpouseJanis Freedman (m. 1989–2005),more
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.




Born on this day in 1880, André Derain was a major proponent of fauvism, which was the first of the avant-garde movements that flourished in France in the early years of the twentieth century.


In the summer of 1905 André Derain, then twenty-five, left Paris for a two-month sojourn with his friend Henri Matisse. They settled in the small fishing…
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André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. Wikipedia
BornJune 10, 1880, Chatou, France
DiedSeptember 8, 1954, Garches, France
NationalityFrench





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