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Enid Blyton Was Born On This Day
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland Was Born On This Day.
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, DStJ (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) was an English novelist who wrote romance novels, one of the best selling authors as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful worldwide of the 20th century. Her 723 novels were translated into 38 languages and she continues to be referenced in the Guinness World Records for the most novels published in a single year in 1977.
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Helen Keller was born on this day.
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880.
Famous American woman who, though deaf and blind, became a women’s suffragist and leftist political activist. She published twelve books and a number of articles over the course of her life and was a famous activist.
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George Orwell Was Born On This Day.
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950),
better known by his pen name George Orwell.
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Charles Dickens was born on this day.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.
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Lewis Carroll Was Born On This Day
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children’s fiction, notably Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor and Anglican deacon.
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Roald Dahl Was Born On This Day
C S Forester Was Born On This Day.
Born Cecil Louis Troughton Smith
27 August 1899
Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt.
Died 2 April 1966 (aged 66)
Fullerton, California, U.S.
AM Simpson 