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July 11: Laurence Olivier,To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee， E. B. White



Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White". Wikipedia
Born: July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, New York, United States
Died: October 1, 1985, Brooklin, Maine, United States
Movies: Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, more
Awards: John Newbery Medal, Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, more
Quotes
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

“E. B. White has the distinction of being one of the few writers to really express the misery of seasonal allergies.”
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The Misery of Seasonal Allergies in Literature
Sadie Stein on E. B. White, Gregg Mitman, and our “special identification with life’s high mystery.”
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Olivier played a great Macbeth, Hamlet, Coriolanus and Shylock (he never got Lear right)


Laurence Olivier, the last of the great actor-managers
He died on July 11th 1989
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美國在台協會 AIT 新增了 2 張相片。歷史上的今天系列 #TodayinHistory
你看過《梅岡城故事》(To Kill a Mockingbird) 這本書或電影嗎？小說是在1960年的今天，7月11日 出版，於1961年獲得普立茲獎。《梅岡城故事》是關於一個男人遭人指控他未曾犯過的罪行,書中並觸及美國社會的黑白種族問題和窮人富人之間的關係。本書的作者哈波．李 (Harper Lee) 出生於1926的阿拉巴馬州門羅維爾，當時所有活動都會在郡廣場舉辦，廣場的中心點就是舊法院大樓。舊法院大樓的法庭是啟發她的靈感並進而化成為書中的一部份。當小說要拍攝成電影時，據說哈波．李堅持電影導演要在開始架構電影場景前，先造訪門羅郡的舊法院大樓。電影中的主角由影星葛雷哥萊畢克 (Gregory Peck) 扮演，他也曾到過鎮上並參觀舊法院大樓。每年五月，在法庭及舊門羅郡法院大樓 (Monroe County Courthouse) 的草坪上，演員們會演出曾獲普立茲獎的小說《梅岡城故事》(To Kill a Mockingbird), 想閱讀本書, 歡迎到全台各地的美國資料中心借閱: https⋯⋯
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