TWEET LitBirthdays June 28 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (b. 1712) – Swiss-French philosopher Read about Jean Jacques Rousseau here June 29 Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure) (b. 1941) – U.S. political activist June 30 James Goldman (b. 1927) – U.S. screenwriter and playwright … Continue reading
TWEET LitBirthdays June 21 Jean-Paul Sartre (born June 21, 1905) – French philosopher, playwright, novelist, 1964 Nobel prize winner, literature – Black Orpheus (1948) Mary McCarthy (born June 21, 1912) – U.S. novelist, essayist, theater critic – “The Unimportance of … Continue reading
TWEET LitBirthdays June 14 Margaret Bourke-White (b. 1904) – U.S. photojournalist – Portrait of Myself Mona Simpson (b. 1957) – U.S. novelist – Anywhere but Here (1987) Read Simpson’s eulogy to her brother, Steve Jobs: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html Listen to this 2015 … Continue reading
TWEET LitBirthdays June 7 Orhan Pamuk (born June 7, 1952) – Turkish novelist, 2006 Literature Nobel Prize winner – The Black Book See Orhan Pamuk talk about himself, his writing, and Islam in this 2007 speech at the University of … Continue reading
