![]() ![]() An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), The Concept of Nature (1920), Science and the Modern World, (1925), Process and Reality (1929). Collaborated with his former pupil, Bertrand Russell, on Principia Mathematica (1910–13). February 12Īlfred North Whitehead, (1861–1947), English mathematician and philosopher. February 10Ĭharles Darwin (1809 d.1882), English naturalist and writer, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). February 9īerthold Brecht (1898 d.1956), born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, German playwright and poet whose major plays include Mother Courage and Her Children (1941) and Galileo (1938). February 8Īlice Walker (1944), Georgia-born novelist and essayist who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple (1982). John Grisham, (1955), Mississippi-based novelist of legal thrillers, such as The Firm. Jules Verne, (1828 d.1905), French science fiction pioneer. Laura Ingalls Wilder, (1867 d.1957), Wisconsin-born children's writer, creator of the 'Little House on the Prairie' series. Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and Elmer Gantry. ![]() Sinclair Lewis, (1885-1951), novelist and social critic, winner of 1930 Nobel Prize fro Literature. February 6Ĭharles Dickens, (1812-1870), English novelist. February 5Ĭhristopher Marlowe, (1564 d.1593), English poet and dramatist. Burroughs, (1914 d.1997), experimental novelist. February 3īetty Friedan (1921 d.2006), Illinois-born feminist writer, The Feminine Mystique (1963). Tales of the South Pacific for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948. Gertrude Stein, (1874 d.1946), Pittsburgh native, longtime Paris resident, avant-garde writer. Atlas Shrugged (1957) and The Fountainhead (1943). February 2Īyn Rand, (1905 d.1982), Russian-born novelist. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914), Ulysses (1922) - which was banned in the U.S until a court decision in its favor in 1933, and Finnegan's Wake (1939). James Joyce, (1882 d.1941), Irish novelist, poet, and stream-of-consciousness pioneer. Langston Hughes, (1902 d.1967), African-American poet and translator, leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. France's foremost female writer in her time. the novella Gigi (1944). Lewis Carroll (1832 d.1898), born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English poet and author of children's books, including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) January 27 Virginia Woolf, (1882 d.1941), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929). W Somerset Maugham, (1874 d.1965), English novelist and poet. 'The Raven' January 19Įdith Wharton (1862 d.1937), who won the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence. January 18Įdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), inventor of the detective fiction genre. January 17Ī A Milne, (1882 d.1956), Winnie-the-Pooh creator and mathematician. Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. in new calendar d.1904), Russian playwright and short-story writer. January 17Īnton Chekhov (1860 birthdate is 29 Jan. January 8īenjamin Franklin (1706 d.1790), American statesman, philosopher, scientist, printer, writer. A Brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes (1988). ![]() Stephen Hawking (1942), English physicist and author. Zora Neale Hurston, (1903-1960), African-American novelist. ![]() Khalil Gibran (1883 d.1931), Lebanese mystic poet, famous for The Prophet. Carl Sandburg,(1878 -1967), Illinois poet and Lincoln biographer. ![]()
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