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).

Born on this day – Millard Kaufman:

Millard Kaufman

Writer

March 12, 1917 – March 14, 2009

Credits:

Books:

Bowl of Cherries (novel) (2008); Misadventure (2010); Plots & Characters: A Screenwriter on Screenwriting (2001).

Movies and television:

Aladdin and His Lamp (1952); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); Convicts 4 (1962); Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980); Expanding World Relationships (1947); Gun Crazy (1950); Kung-Fu Magoo (2010); Living Free (1972); Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun (1989); Never So Few (1959); Police Story (1976); Punchy de Leon (1950); Ragtime Bear (1949); Raintree County (1957); Raintree County (1957); Take the High Ground! (1953); The Klansman (1974); The Nativity (1978); The War Lord (1965); Trouble Indemnity (1950); Unknown World (1951).

Born on this day – Jesse Fuller:

Jesse Fuller

Blues singer

Songwriter

Harmonica player

Guitarist

March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976

Kimberly Willis Holt, on writing:

Write every day.

Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can.

I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

- Kimberly Willis Holt.

On this day in music history - The Long Goodbye, by Laura Sullivan (2021):

The album The Long Goodbye,

by Laura Sullivan,

was released on March 11, 2021.

On this day in movie history - 9 Rides (2016):

9 Rides,

directed and written by Matthew A. Cherry,

was released at the South by Southwest Film Festival in the United States on March 11, 2016.
Music by Donald Hayes.

Cast:

Dorian Missick, Omar J. Dorsey, Robinne Lee, Xosha Roquemore, Amin Joseph, Thomas Q. Jones, Skye P. Marshall, Aasha Davis, Tracie Thoms, Andra Fuller, Sujata Day, Nadine Ellis, Frank Califano, Dominique Columbus, Alice Ensor, Malcolm Matthews, Jake McLean, Brittany Richards, Capri Sampson, Kayla Smith, Tiffany Snow.

On this day in music history - Atmospheres, by Rudy Adrian (2014):

The album Atmospheres,

by Rudy Adrian,

was released on March 11, 2014.