Louisa May Alcott Born On This Day


Louisa May Alcott November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888 was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886).

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F Scott Fitzgerald Was Born On This Day


Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940)

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Agatha Christie was born on this day 15 September 1890

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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.

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Enid Blyton Was Born On This Day


Enid Mary Blyton Was Born 11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968

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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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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950),

better known by his pen name George Orwell.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Was Born On This Day


The first American novel to sell over a million copies. By calling attention to the issue of slavery, it has become a part of our country’s literary and historical heritage.

Stowe was an abolitionist and the author of the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Upon meeting her, Abraham Lincoln allegedly remarked, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: (June 14, 1811- July 1, 1896)

William Butler Yeats Was Born On This Day


W.B. Yeats (June 13, 1865- January 28, 1939)

Poet and playwright William Butler Yeats was the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. A few of his more famous works include The Tower and Deirdre.

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