Born on this day – Anaïs Nin:

Anaïs Nin

Writer

February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977

Born on this day – Charles Dickens:

Charles Dickens

Writer

February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870

Credits:

Books:

100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (1993); 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); A Child’s History of England (1854); A Christmas Carol (1843); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A Tale of Two Cities (1859); A Terribly Strange Bed (1852); After Dark (1856); Alfred Hitchcock’s Fatal Attractions (1983); An Accursed Race (1855); Barnaby Rudge (1841); Bessy’s Troubles at Home (1852); Black and White (2015); Bleak House (1853); Bran (2015); Children’s Christmas Stories and Poems (1995); Chilling Ghost Stories (2015); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (1996); Company Manners (2018); Cousin Phyllis (1864); David Copperfield (1850); Disappearances (1851); Doctor Marigold (1866); Dombey and Son (1848); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve (2015); French Life (1864); George Silverman’s Explanation (1868); Ghost Stories (1986); Great Expectations (1861); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror (1993); Hard Times (1854); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023); Hunted Down (2016); John Jago’s Ghost (1874); Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras (1855); Little Dorrit (1855); Lizzie Leigh (1850); London Stories (2013); Master Humphrey’s Clock (1841); Master Humphrey’s Clock, Volume 2 (1841); Miss Gwilt (1880); Miss or Mrs.? (1873); Morton Hall (2004); Mr. Harrison’s Confessions (1851); Mr. Wray’s Cash Box (1852); Mudfog and Other Papers Contributed to Bentley’s Miscellany (1880); My French Master (2004); My Lady’s Money (1879); No Thoroughfare (1867); No Thoroughfare (1867); Old Curiosity Shop (1841); Our Mutual Friend (1865); Reprinted Pieces (1861); Right at Last (1858); Round the Christmas Fire (2013); Select Short Fiction (1976); Sexton’s Hero (1847); Sights A-Foot (1887); Six Weeks at Heppenheim (2004); Sketches by Boz (1836); Tales of Terror: Between Heaven and the Earth (2002); Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021); That Glimpse of Truth (2014); The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838); The Angler’s Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange (1855); The Battle of Life (1846); The Black Veil (1836); The Cauldron of Oil (1861); The Chimes (1844); The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (1866); The Cricket on the Hearth (1845); The Crooked Branch (2004); The Dead Alive (1873); The Doom of the Griffiths (1858); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023); The Dream Woman (1855); The Greatest Books of All Time #4 (2017); The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (2019); The Half-Brothers (1859); The Hanged Man’s Bride (1857); The Haunted Hotel (1879); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848); The Heart of John Middleton (2004); The Holly Tree Inn (1850); The Last Stage Coachman (1843); The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby (1839); The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror (1992); The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories (1909); The Magic Fishbone (1867); The Manchester Marriage (1858); The Moorland Cottage (1850); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870); The Nun’s Story of Gabriel’s Marriage (1853); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Phantom Coach (2014); The Pickwick Papers (1837); The Poor Clare (1856); The Poor Traveller / Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn (1858); The Queen of Hearts (1859); The Scholar’s Story (2016); The Shah’s English Gardener (1852); The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories (1984); The Squire’s Story (1855); The Well of Pen Morfa (2004); The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 (2016); The World’s Greatest Horror Stories (2004); The Yellow Mask (1887); Three Ghost Stories (1998); Thrillers (1994); To Be Read at Dusk (1852); Victorian Anthologies of Classic Spectral Stories to Chill and Thrill the Senses (2020); Who Killed Zebedee? (1880); Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens (2002); World’s Great Mystery Stories (1943); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1975); A Christmas Carol - A Dramatic Reading (2014); A Christmas Carol - ITS Troupe 7825 (2020); A Christmas Carol (1908 / 1910 / 1914 / 1923 / 1938 / 1943 / 1947 / 1950 / 1951 / 1960 / 1962 / 1969 / 1971 / 1977 / 1981 / 1982 / 1984 / 1994 / 1997 / 1999 / 2000 / 2009 / 2015 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020); A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre (1979); A Christmas Carol: 50th Anniversary (2015); A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2022); A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play (2020); A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's Ghostly Tale (2006); A Christmas Carol: The Concert (2013); A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004); A Dark Shadows Christmas Carol (2021); A Dickens of a Time (2020); A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994); A Frozen Christmas Carol (2018); A Ghost Story for Christmas (1976); A Knight for a Night (1909); A Loja de Antigüidades (1963); A Message from Mars (1903); A Modern Christmas Carol (2020); A Modern Oliver Twist (1906); A Moeda de Ouro (1965); A Nintendo Christmas Carol (2014); A Tale of Two Cities (1907 / 1911 / 1917 / 1922 / 1935 / 1957 / 1958 / 1965 / 1980 / 1984 / 1989); A Tale of Two Cities: In Concert (2009); A VHS Christmas Carol (2020); A Yorkshire School (1910); A Youtube Carol (2017); Adventures from the Book of Virtues (2000); Agalia agapis 3 (2024); Alta comedia (1993); An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998); An American Christmas Carol (1979); An Evening of Dickens 'Round the Fire... A Christmas Carol (2018); Armchair Theatre (1959); As Grandes Esperanças (1961); Atop the Fourth Wall (2009); Aus dem Bücherschrank geholt (1960); Bah Humduck!: A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006); Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' (1994); Barbie in 'A Christmas Carol' (2008); Bardell Against Pickwick (1938 / 1946); Barnaby Rudge (1911 / 1915 / 1960); Beavis and Butt-Head / Segment: Huh-Huh-Humbug (1995); Bijli (1979); Biography (1996); Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988); Bleak House (1920 / 1922 / 1926 / 1959 / 2005); Boozoo's Ghosts (2020); Boy Called Twist (2004); Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol (1992); Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979); Camera Three (1956–1961); Canto di Natale (2010 / 2020); Cariño, sabes que soy de otro planeta (2022); Carol (2024); Carol for Another Christmas (1964); Carovná rybí kosticka (1984); CBC Show of the Week (1964); Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (2020); Charles Dickens's England (2009); Charles Laughton (1952); Christmas Carol (1984); Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001); Christmas Carole (1966); Christmas Glory 2000 (2000); Christmas Stories: A Christmas Carol (2013); Christmas Visitations (2015); CineRama (2015); Computer Boy (2015); Conto de Natal (1997); Creepy As Fuck (2020); Cricket on the Hearth (1967); David Copperfield (1911 / 1913 / 1922 / 1935 / 1956 / 1958 / 1965–1966 / 1966 / 1970 / 1974–1975 / 1983 / 1986 / 1993 / 1999 / 2000 / 2009); Death and Rebirth of a Stingy Man (2018); Death of Nancy Sykes (1897); Detective (1969); Dickensian (2015–2016); Die Galerie der großen Detektive (1955); Die Geheimnisse von London - Die Tragödie eines Kindes (1920); Die Glocken von London (1962); Die Pickwickier (1968); Doctors (2016); Dolly Varden (1906 / 1913); Dombais et fils (2007); Dombey & Son (1983); Dombey and Son (1919 / 1969); Dombi i syn (1974); Ebenezer (1998 / 2020); Ebenezer Scrooge (2018); Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa (1955); Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa oder Eine Geistergeschichte zum Christfest (1960); El guardavías (2004); Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens (1951 / 1983); Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001); Eugene Wrayburn (1911); Every Day Is Christmas (2018); Fagin (1922); Family Theatre (1958); Feliz navidad mama (2002); Festival (1961); Festival of Family Classics (1972); Fireside Reading of A Christmas Carol (2022); Fireside Theatre (1951); Fitoor (2016); Foley Marra Studios Presents (2020); Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens (1959); Gabriel Grub (1904); Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013); General Electric Theater (1957); George Burns Comedy Week (1985); Ghost Stories (1987); Going Live! (1990); Great Expectations (1917 / 1934 / 1946 / 1959 / 1967 / 1971 / 1974 / 1981 / 1983 / 1989 / 1998 / 1999 / 2011 / 2013 / 2023); Great Expectations US Poster (2012); Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1987); Grimaldi: The Funniest Man in the World (2017); Hans Christian Andersen - Im Schatten der Märchen (2023); Hard Times (1915 / 1977 / 1988 / 1994); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); Hora once (1970–1972); House of Mouse / Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001); How Bella Was Won (1911); How Does It End? (1952); Hristougenniatiki istoria (2020); Hristougenniatiki metamorfosi (2024); Humphrey and Renshaw - Warning: May Contain Nuts (2007); I riassuntini (2018); Il circolo Pickwick (1968); Il grillo del focolare (1963); In Love With... (2011–2012); ITV Television Playhouse (1960–1963); Jackanory (1966–1976); Jo the Crossing Sweeper (1910 / 1918); John Grin's Christmas (1986); Kapetan Smelo srce (1963); Karácsonyi ének (1964); Karl Wells: A Christmas Carol (2021); Karroll's Christmas (2004); Klein Doortje (1917); Kraft Theatre (1952); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948); La bottega dell'antiquario (1921); Las grandes novellas (1971); Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby (1958); Le grillon du foyer (1922 / 1933 / 1972); Le Noël de M. Scrooge (2017); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1961–1965); Legends & Oddities (2004); Les aventures de Monsieur Pickwick (1964–1965); Les grandes espérances (1968); Les nouvelles aventures d'Oliver Twist (1997–1998); Let's Make a Musical (1977); Lille Dorrit (1924); Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955); Little Dorrit (1913 / 1920 / 1934 / 1987 / 2008); Little Emily (1911); Little Nell (1979–1980); Louder with Crowder (2017); Love and the Law (1910); Luigi0730 (2011); Magwitch (2012); Malá Dorritka (1967); Martin Chuzzlewit (1912 / 1914 / 1964 / 1994); Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House (1985); Matinee Theatre (1956); Megalo tileoptiko theama (1975); Mia hristougenniatiki istoria (2020); Micawber (2001–2002); Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983); Mine yndlingsbøger (1970); Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962); Mister Scrooge (1967); Monodrama Theater (1953); Monsters (1990); Mr. Bumble the Beadle (1898); Mr. Horatio Sparkins (1913); Mr. Pickwick in a Double Bedded Room (1913); Mr. Pickwick's Christmas at Wardle's (1901); Mr. Pickwick's Predicament (1912); Mr. Quilp (1975); Mrs. Corney Makes Tea (1913); Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgers (1912); Ms. Scrooge (1997); Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935); Nancy (1922); Natale a casa Deejay - A Christmas Carol (2004); Nature Cat (2019); New Looney Tunes (2020); Nicholas Nickleby (1903 / 1912 / 1957 / 1968 / 1977 / 1985 / 2002); Nieznana opowiesc wigilijna (2000); Non è mai troppo tardi (1953); Novela (1965–1976); Nuestro amigo el libro (1964); O Grilo da Lareira (1960); O Rolfi ston Peiraia No. 2 (2017); O Velho Scrooge (1963); Old Scrooge (1913); Oliver & Company (1988); Oliver Touist (1997); Oliver Twink (2007); Oliver Twist (1907 / 1909 / 1910 / 1911 / 1912 / 1916 / 1922 / 1933 / 1948 / 1955 / 1960 / 1962 / 1974 / 1982 / 1985 / 1997 / 1999 / 2005 / 2007 / 2022 / 2023); Oliver Twist, Jr. (1921); Oliver! (1968 / 2014); Olivia Twist (2014); Omnibus (1952–1953); One Word Christmas Carol (2021); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1974); Os irmãos Dombey (1959); Our Mutual Friend (1958–1959 / 1976 / 1998); Ouvrez les guillemets (2017); Pan Pickwick (1987); Perry Mason (1966); Pickwick (1969); Pickwick Papers (1985); Pickwick Versus Bardell (1913); Pikvikskiy klub (1986); Ponds Theater (1953); Príbeh se starou lenoskou (1972); Radio Story Hour (2024); Radioteatro de Navidad de la Cadena Ser (2013–2016); Rich Little's Christmas Carol (1978); Rich Man's Folly (1931); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Santa World: Christmas Bedtime Stories (2018); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2024); Scrooge (1922 / 1928 / 1935 / 1970 / 1978); Scrooge and Marley (2001); Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022); Scrooge: A Christmas Sarah (1990); Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost (1901); Scrooged (1988); Shadows at the Door (2019); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Shoestring Theatre (1960); Shower of Stars (1954–1955); Siesta Z (2017); Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol (1979); Smike! (1973); Society of Radio Theatre (2022); South Park (2000); Spirited (2022); Starozitníkuv krám (1980); Store forventninger (1922); Story of the Christmas Carol (1955); Storyboard (1989); Sunday Story (1963); Suspense (1952–1953 / 2019); Sverchok na pechi (1915); Tayna Edvina Druda (1980); Television Theater (1958–1998); Tense Moments from Great Plays / Segment: Bleak House (1922); Tense Moments with Great Authors / Segments: Nancy / Fagin / Scrooge / A Tale of Two Cities (1922); The Abridged Works of Charles Dickens (2016); The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick (1921); The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1987); The Alcoa Hour (1955–1956); The Angry Video Game Nerd (2007); The Bible: The Amazing Book (1988); The Boy and the Convict (1909); The Charlie Drake Show (1960); The Chimes (1914 / 1999); The Christmas Carol (1949); The Cricket on the Hearth (1909 / 1914 / 1923); The Danny Thomas Hour (1967); The Death of Poor Joe (1901); The DuPont Show of the Month (1958–1959); The Further Adventures of Oliver Twist (1980); The Gospel According to Scrooge (1983); The Gumby Show (1960); The Haunted Man (2022); The Jetsons (1985); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947 / 1982 / 2001); The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (2012); The Lonely Man (2014); The Magic Fishbone (1955); The Magic of Charles Dickens (1967); The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017); The Merry Christmas (1955); The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992); The Mystery of Charles Dickens (2000); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1909 / 1914 / 1960 / 1993 / 2012); The Nutcracker: A Christmas Story (1992); The Old Curiosity Shop (1909 / 1911 / 1912 / 1913 / 1921 / 1934 / 1962–1963 / 1979–1980 / 1984 / 1995 / 2007); The Only Way (1925 / 1948); The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019); The Pickwick Papers (1913 / 1952–1953 / 1985); The Pickwick Papers / Part Three (1913); The Picture of Dorian Gray (2023); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Reader (2008); The Real Ghostbusters (1986); The Right to Be Happy (1916); The Signal Man (2016); The Signal Man by Charles Dickens (2022); The Signalman (2015); The Six Million Dollar Man (1976); The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol (2011); The Stingiest Man in Town (1978); The Tale of Gabriel Grub (2004); The Virtue of Rags (1912); Thomas & Friends (1986); Tohtoritehtaan saituri ja yliopistokaupungin valot (2018); Twist (2003 / 2021); Twist Olivér (1919); Un Cuento de Navidad (2020); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); VeggieTales: An Easter Carol (2004); VHS Christmas Carol: Live! (2022); VHS Christmas Carols (2023 / 2024); Vor fælles Ven (1921); Wagon Train (1960); Wishbone (1995–1997); Xena: Warrior Princess (1996); Yellow River (2020); Your Show Time (1949); Zapiski Pikvikskogo kluba (1972).

Born on this day – James Dickey:

James Dickey

Writer

Actor

February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997

Credits:

Books:

Alnilam (1987); Buckdancer's Choice (1965); Deliverance (1970); Drownings (1981); For a Time and Place (1983); From the Green Horseshoe (1987); Night Hurdling (1983); Sorties (1971); The Eagle's Mile (1981); The Selected Poems (1979); The Zodiac (1976); To the White Sea (1993).

Movies:

The Call of the Wild (1976); Deliverance (1972).

Born on this day – Joseph Heller:

Joseph Heller

Writer

May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999

Credits:

Books:

Catch-22 (1961); Closing Time (1994); God Knows (1984); Good as Gold (1979); No Laughing Matter (1986); Now and Then (1998); Picture This (1988); Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000); Something Happened (1974); The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 (2014).

Movies and television:

Bombardovanje Nju Hejvna (1973); Camera Three (1962); Casino Royale (1967); Catch Five: Joseph Heller and Rembrandt (1992); Catch-22 (1970); Catch-22 (1973); Catch-22 (2019); Charlie Rose (1994); Dirty Dingus Magee (1970); Good Morning America (1985); Hier is... Adriaan van Dis (1985); James Jones: Reveille to Taps (1985); Late Night with David Letterman (1986); McHale's Navy (1962); McLean and Company (1971); Pommitamme Pasilasta (1970); Sex and the Single Girl (1964); Something Happened; The Book Programme (1974–1980); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The South Bank Show (1979–1984); Theatre of the Absurd: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (1976); Today (1968–1974); Wogan (1986).

Born on this day – Jack Williamson:

Jack Williamson

Writer

April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006

Credits:

Books:

A Sense of Wonder (1967); After World's End (1939); At the Human Limit (2011); Beachhead (1992); Bright New Universe (1967); Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods (1979); Darker Than You Think (1948); Darker Than You Think and Other Novels (2003); Demon Moon (1994); Dragon's Island / aka The Not-Men (1951); Dragon's Island and Other Stories (2002); Dreadful Sleep (1977); Farthest Star (1975); Firechild (1986); Gateway to Paradise (2008); Golden Blood (1933); H. G. Wells (1973); Islands of the Sun (1935); Jack Williamson SF Gateway Omnibus (2014); Jamboree (1969); Lady in Danger (1945); Land's End (1988); Lifeburst (1984); Manseed (1982); Mazeway (1990); One against the Legion (1939); People Machines (1971); Realm of Wizardry (1940); Rogue Star (1969); Salvage in Space (2011); Seetee Ship (1951); Seetee Shock (1950); Seventy-Five (2004); Spider Island (2002); Star Bridge (1955); Starchild (1965); Teaching Science Fiction (1980); Terraforming Earth (2001); The Alien Intelligence (1929); The Best of Jack Williamson (1978); The Black Sun (1997); The Blue Spot (1935); The Cometeers (1936); The Cosmic Express (2011); The Crucible of Power (2006); The Dome Around America / aka Gateway to Paradise (1955); The Early Williamson (1975); The Fortress of Utopia (1939); The Girl from Mars (1930); The Green Girl (1930); The Green Girl / The Robot Peril (2012); The Humanoid Touch (1980); The Humanoids (1949); The Humanoids and With Folded Hands (2002); The Legion of Space (1934); The Legion of Time (1938); The Metal Man and Others (1984); The Moon Children (1973); The Moon Era (1967); The Pandora Effect (1969); The Power of Blackness (1976); The Queen of the Legion (1982); The Reefs of Space (1964); The Reign of Wizardry (1964); The Silicon Dagger (1999); The Singers of Time (1991); The Stone from the Green Star (1931); The Stonehenge Gate (2005); The Trial of Terra (1962); The Ultimate Earth (2000); Trapped in Space (1968); Undersea City (1958); Undersea Fleet (1955); Undersea Quest (1954); Wall Around a Star (1975); With Folded Hands (2011); With Folded Hands . . . And Searching Mind (2010); Wizard's Isle (2000); Wolves of DarknessX (1999); Wonder's Child (1984); Xandulu (1934).

Movie, television and radio:

Dimension X (1950); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992); The Creation of the Humanoids (1962).

Born on this day – Terry Pratchett:

Terry Pratchett

Writer

April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015

Born on this day – Lois Duncan:

Lois Duncan

Writer

April 28, 1934 – June 15, 2016

Credits:

Books:

A Gift of Magic (1960); A Promise for Joyce (1959); Daughters of Eve (1979); Debutante Hill (1958); Don't Look Behind You (1989); Down a Dark Hall (1974); From Spring to Spring (1982); Gallows Hill (1997); Game of Danger (1962); Hotel for Dogs (1971); I Know What You Did Last Summer (1973); I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998); Killing Mr. Griffin (1978); Locked in Time (1985); Love Song for Joyce (1958); Movie for Dogs (2010); News For Dogs (2009); Night Terrors (1996); On the Edge (1997); Peggy (1970); Point of Violence (1966); Ransom / aka Five Were Missing (1966); Season of the Two - Heart (1964); Seasons of the Heart (2007); Songs From Dreamland (1989); Stranger with My Face (1981); Summer of Fear (1976); Terrible Tales of the Happy Days School (1983); The Middle Sister (1962); The Third Eye / aka The Eyes of Karen Connors (1984); The Twisted Window (1987); They Never Came Home (1969); When the Bough Breaks (1973); Written In The Stars (2014).

Movies and television:

A Home for Everyone: The Making of 'Hotel for Dogs' (2009); Don't Look Behind You (1999); Down a Dark Hall (2018); Held for Ransom (2000); Hotel for Dogs (2009); I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997 / 2021 / 2021); I Know What You Did Last Summer: Alternate Ending (2022); I Know What You Did Last Summer: Deleted Scenes (2022); I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998); I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006); I've Been Waiting for You (1998); Killing Mr. Griffin (1997); Sightings (1992); Stranger with My Face (2009); Summer of Fear (1978); The Bikini Open 8 (1992); The Generation Why Podcast (2014); Unsolved Mysteries (1992).

Born on this day – Harper Lee:

Harper Lee

Writer

April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016

Credits:

Books:

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960); Go Set a Watchman (2015); The Harper Lee Collection (2015); To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel, by Harper Lee and Fred Fordham (2018).

Awards:

The Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for To Kill a Mockingbird.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature.

Movies, video, television and stage:

Cedar Cove (2015); Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders (2017); Hollywood Insider (2022); I riassuntini (2018); Inside Edition (2015); Mockingbird (2023); PBS NewsHour (2016); The Capote Tapes (2019); The Merv Griffin Show (1963); To Kill a Mockingbird (1962); To Kill a Mockingbird (2014); To Kill a Mockingbird (2018 stage play, starring Jeff Daniels).

Born on this day – Bernard Malamud:

Bernard Malamud

Writer

April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986

Credits:

Books:

A Malamud Reader (1967); A New Life (1961); A World of Fiction (1983); Baseball: a Literary Anthology (2002); Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 (1964); Dubin's Lives (1977); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); God's Grace (1982); Great Baseball Stories (1990); Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981); Idiots First (1963); Penguin Modern Stories 1 (1969); Pictures of Fidelman (1969); Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards (1970); Prize Stories 1973: The O. Henry Awards (1973); Rembrandt's Hat (1973); Selected Stories (1950); Talking Horse (1980); The Assistant (1957); The Best American Short Stories 1964 (1964); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Complete Stories (1997); The Fixer (1966); The Magic Barrel (1950); The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 (1999); The Natural (1952); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The People (1989); The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1983); The Tenants (1971); Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1973); Winter's Tales 15 (1969); Wonderful Town (2000); Writing New York (1998).

Awards:

National Jewish Book Award: The Assistant (1958); National Book Award for Fiction: The Magic Barrel (1959); National Book Award for Fiction: The Fixer (1967); Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: The Fixer (1967); O. Henry Award: Man in the Drawer, published in the April 1968 edition of The Atlantic Monthly (1969); PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the runner-up award for The Stories (1984).

Movies and television:

Der Gehilfe (1978); Shoestring Theatre (1959); Storyboard (1961); Take Pity (1996); The Angel Levine (1970); The Assistant (1997); The Book Programme (1980); The First Seven Years (1998); The Fixer (1968); The Matchmaker (1984); The Model (1994); The Natural (1984); The Tenants (2005); Writers and Places (1980).

Born on this day – Dorothy Salisbury Davis:

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Writer

April 25, 1916 − August 3, 2014

Credits:

A Death in the Life (1976); A Gentle Murderer (1951); A Gentleman Called (1958); A Town of Masks (1952); Black Sheep, White Lamb (1964); Crime without Murder (1972); Death of an Old Sinner (1957); Enemy and brother (1967); God Speed the Night (1969); In the Still of the Night (2001); Lullaby of Murder (1984); Men of No Property (1956); Old Sinners Never Die (1959); Scarlet Night (1980); Shock Wave (1972); Tales for a Stormy Night (1984); The Clay Hand (1952); The Evening of the Good Samaritan (1961); The Habit of Fear (1987); The Judas Cat (1949); The Little Brothers (1973); The Pale Betrayer (1965); Where the Dark Streets Go (1970).

Born on this day – Sue Grafton:

Sue Grafton

Writer

April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017

Credits:

Written work:

A Is for Alibi (1982); B Is for Burglar (1985); C Is for Corpse (1986); D Is for Deadbeat (1987); E Is for Evidence (1988); F Is for Fugitive (1989); G Is for Gumshoe (1990); H Is for Homicide (1991); I Is for Innocent (1992); J Is for Judgment (1993); K Is for Killer (1994); L Is for Lawless (1995); M Is for Malice (1996); N Is for Noose (1998); O Is for Outlaw (1999); P Is for Peril (2001); Q Is for Quarry (2002); R Is for Ricochet (2004); S Is for Silence (2005); T Is for Trespass (2007); U Is for Undertow (2009); V Is for Vengeance (2011); W Is for Wasted (2013); X (2015); Y Is for Yesterday (2017); If You Want Something Done Right . . . (2020); Keziah Dane (1967); Kinsey and Me (2013); Teaching a Child (2013); The Lolly-Madonna War (1969); The Lying Game (2003).

Movies and television:

A Caribbean Mystery (1983); A Killer in the Family (1983); B Cult (2009); English Composition: Writing for an Audience (2001); Jeopardy! (2018); Kako kara no koe (1988); L'hora del lector (2009); Likely Suspects (1992); Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973); Love on the Run (1985); Mark, I Love You (1980); Nurse (1980–1982); Página 2 (2009); Rhoda (1975); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982–1983); Sex and the Single Parent (1979); Sparkling Cyanide (1983); The Canterville Ghost (1986); The Criminal Calendar (2007); The Hour (2013); Tonight's the Night (1987); Via llibre (2015); Walking Through the Fire (1979); Wangan ni kieta onna (1989); Women of Mystery (1996).

Born on this day – William Jay Smith:

William Jay Smith

Writer

April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015

Credits:

Alain Bosquet (1995); Army brat: a memoir (1980); Around My Room (2000); Boy Blue's Book of Beasts (1957); Celebration at Dark (1950); His Collected Poems: 1939–1989 (1990); Ho for a Hat! (1964 / revised edition published in 1989); Laughing Time (1955); Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense (1980); My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams (2012); Poems (1947); Poems of a Multimillionaire by Valéry Larbaud (1955); Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue (1956); Songs of C, Federico García Lorca (1994); The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems (2000); The Straw Market (2006); The streaks of the tulip: selected criticism (1972); The Tin Can and Other Poems (1966); The World Below the Window: Poems 1937–1997 (1998); Two Plays by Charles Bertin: Christopher Columbus and Don Juan (1970); Typewriter Town (1960).

Born on this day – Charles Grodin:

Charles Grodin

Actor

Comedian

Writer

April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021

Born on this day – Alistair MacLean:

Alistair MacLean

Writer

April 21, 1922 – February 2, 1987

Born on this day – Josh Billings:

Josh Billings

Writer

April 21, 1818 – October 14, 1885

Born on this day – Maya Angelou:

Maya Angelou

Writer

April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014

Credits:

Including titles with Steven Spielberg, Langston Hughes and Mary Ellen Mark:

Angelina of Italy (2004); Izak of Lapland (2004); Mikale of Hawaii (2004); Renee Marie of France (2004); Cedric of Jamaica (2005); Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie (1971); Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975); And Still I Rise (1978); Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987); I Shall Not Be Moved (1990); On the Pulse of Morning (1993); Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993); The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994); The Complete Collected Poems (1994); Maya Angelou: Poems (1994); Phenomenal Woman (1995); A Brave and Startling Truth (1995); Black Pearls (1998); Van Gogh's Ear (2005); Amazing Peace (2005); Celebrations (2006); Poetry for Young People (2007); Love's Exquisite Freedom (2011); Mrs. Flowers (1986); Life Doesn't Frighten Me (1993); My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me (1994); Kofi and His Magic (1996); I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969); Gather Together in My Name (1974); Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976); The Heart of a Woman (1981); All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986); A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002); Mom & Me & Mom (2013); Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? (1983); Letter to My Daughter (1987); Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993); Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1996); The Voyage of the Amistad (1997); Making Magic in the World (1998); Amistad (1998); Mary Ellen Mark (1999); Graduation (2000); Hallelujah! The Welcome Table (2004); Mother (2006); Great Food, All Day Long (2010); His Day Is Done (2014); Rainbow in the Cloud (2014); Understanding Aspergers (2014); Strategies of Abundance (2014); The Weary Blues (1926); The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932); The Ways of White Folks (1934); Selected Poems (1959); Ask Your Mama (1961); Poems from Black Africa (1963); The Panther and the Lash (1967); Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993); The Poems 1921-1940 (2001); The Poems: 1941-1950 (2001); The Poems: 1951-1967 (2001); Let America Be America Again (2004); Poetry for Young People (2006); Jim Crow's Last Stand (2007); The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (2022); Fine Clothes to the Jew: Poems of Black America in the 1920s (2023); An Earth Song (2023); I Am the Darker Brother (1968); Growing Up in the South (1991); Quartet Of Stories (1993); Writing Women's Lives (1994); The Little Big Book of California (2005); 40 Model Essays (2005); Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female (2006); What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self (2006); Made With Love: The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook (2012); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World (2019).

Born on this day – Sterling Hayden:

Sterling Hayden

Actor

Writer

March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986

Credits:

The Blue and the Gray (1982); Venom (1981); Gas (1981); 9 to 5 (1980); The Outsider (1979); Winter Kills (1979); King of the Gypsies (1978); The Godfather Saga (1977); 1900 (1976); Is It Any Wonder? (1975); Cry, Onion (1975); Deadly Strangers (1975); Banacek (1972); The Final Programme (1973); The Starlost (1973); The Long Goodbye (1973); Le grand départ (1972); The Godfather (1972); Angel's Leap (1971); Loving (1970); Ternos Caçadores (1969); Hard Contract (1969); Carol for Another Christmas (1964); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957); Goodyear Theatre (1958); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1957–1958); Ten Days to Tulara (1958); Terror in a Texas Town (1958); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); General Electric Theater (1957); Zero Hour! (1957); Wagon Train (1957); Gun Battle at Monterey (1957); Valerie (1957); The Iron Sheriff (1957); Zane Grey Theatre (1957); Crime of Passion (1956); 5 Steps to Danger (1956); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); The Killing (1956); The Come On (1956); Top Gun (1955); The Last Command (1955); Shotgun (1955); The Eternal Sea (1955); Timberjack (1955); Battle Taxi (1955); Suddenly (1954); Naked Alibi (1954); Johnny Guitar (1954); Arrow in the Dust (1954); Prince Valiant (1954); Fighter Attack (1953); So Big (1953); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953); Crime Wave (1953); Take Me to Town (1953); Kansas Pacific (1953); The Star (1952); Flat Top (1952); The Golden Hawk (1952); Hellgate (1952); Denver & Rio Grande (1952); Flaming Feather (1952); Journey Into Light (1951); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); Manhandled (1949); El Paso (1949); Variety Girl (1947); Blaze of Noon (1947); Bahama Passage (1941); Virginia (1941).

Born on this day – Winston Groom:

Winston Groom

Writer

March 23, 1943 – September 17, 2020

Credits:

1942 (2005); A Storm in Flanders (2002); Alabama Noir (2020); As Summer Dies (1980); Better Times Than These (1978); Conversations With the Enemy (1983); Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit (2010); El Paso (2016); Forrest Gump (1986); Gone the Sun (1996); Gump & Co. (1995); Gumpisms (1994); Kearny's March (2011); Only (1984); Patriotic Fire (2006); Ronald Reagan Our 40th President (2012); Shiloh, 1862 (2012); Shrouds of Glory (1995); Stories from the Blue Moon Café (2002); Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl (1997); The Allies (2018); The Aviators (2013); The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook (1994); The Crimson Tide (2000); The Generals (2015); The Patriots (2020); Vicksburg, 1863 (2009).

Born on this day – Michael Dibdin:

Michael Dibdin

Writer

March 21, 1947 – March 30, 2007

Credits:

Books:

A Long Finish (1998); A Rich Full Death (1986); And Then You Die (2002); Back to Bologna (2003); Blood Rain (1999); Cabal (1992); Così Fan Tutti (1996); Dark Spectre (1996); Dead Lagoon (1994); Dirty Tricks (1991); End Games (2007); Medusa (2003); Ratking (1988); Thanksgiving (2001); The Dying of the Light (1993); The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978); The Picador Book of Crime Writing (1993); The Tryst (1990); The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1997); Vendetta (1990).

Movies and television:

Zen (2011); Lucy in the Sky (2008); Dirty Tricks (2000).

Born on this day – Jack Kerouac:

Jack Kerouac

Writer

March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969

Credits:

Books:

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945); Atop an Underwood (1987); Beat Generation (1992); Big Sur (1962); Book of Blues (1995); Book of Dreams (1960); Book of Haikus (2003); Book of Sketches (1957); Collected Poems (1971); Dear Carolyn (1983); Departed Angels (2004); Desolation Angels (1965); Door Wide Open (2000); Dr. Sax (1959); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); Field of Fantasies (2014); Good Blonde & Others (1993); Heaven and Other Poems (1977); Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (2010); Lonesome Traveler (1960); Mexico City Blues (1959); Old Angel Midnight (1973); On the Road (1957); Orpheus Emerged (2002); Pic (1971); Piers of the Homeless Night (2018); Pomes All Sizes (1992); Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies (2019); San Francisco Blues (1991); Satori in Paris (1966); Scattered Poems (1971); Selected Letters, 1940-1956 (1995); Selected Letters, 1957-1969 (1999); Some of the Dharma (1997); The Dharma Bums (1958); The Haunted Life (2014); The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960); The Sea Is My Brother (1942); The Subterraneans (1958); The Town and the City (1950); The Unknown Kerouac (2016); Trip Trap (1973); Tristessa (1960); Vanity of Duluoz (1967); Visions of Cody (1960); Visions of Gerard (1963); Wake Up (2008); Windblown World (1947); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movie:

On the Road (2012).