Born on this day – Lili Damita:

Lili Damita

Actress

Singer

July 10, 1904 – March 21, 1994

Credits:

A Dream Comes True (1935); Breakdowns of 1942 (1942); Brewster's Millions (1935); Cab No. 13 (1926); Corsica (1923); Das Spielzeug von Paris (1925); Die berühmte Frau (1927); Die große Abenteuerin (1928); Fighting Caravans (1931); For Auld Lang Syne (1938); Forbidden Love (1927); Friends and Lovers (1931); Frisco Kid (1935); Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000); Goldie Gets Along (1933); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Guests at San Simeon (Hearst Castle) (1931); I 10 del Texas (1961); Jungle Drums (1929); La belle au bois dormant (1922); La Fille sauvage (1922); La voyante (1924); Le père célibataire (1931); Le prince charmant (1925); L'empereur des pauvres (1922); L'escadrille de la chance (1938); Maman Pierre (1922); Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (1926); On a volé un homme (1934); One Hour with You (1932); Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935); Quand on est belle (1932); Scandal in Paris (1928); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 1 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3 (1936); Secrets of a Soul (1926); Soyons gais (1930); Starlit Days at the Lido (1935); Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn (2007); That's Entertainment! (1974); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929); The Cock-Eyed World (1929); The Devil on Horseback (1936); The Golden Butterfly (1926); The Match King (1932); The Rescue (1929); The Woman Between (1931); This Is the Night (1932); Une femme dans la nuit (1924).

Born on this day – John Wyndham:

John Wyndham

Writer

July 10, 1903 – March 11, 1969

Credits:

Books:

13 Great Stories of Science Fiction (1960); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Chamber of Horrors (1965); A Sense of Wonder (1969); A Treasury of Great Science Fiction (2020); Alien Worlds (1964); An ABC of Science Fiction (1971); Chocky (1968); Consider Her Ways (1961); Dragons (1997); Exiles on Asperus (1979); Foul Play Suspected (1935); From Other Worlds (1964); Jizzle (1954); Meteor (1991); No Place Like Earth - a Science Fiction Anthology (2020); No Place Like Earth (2003); Out of This World (1973); Plan for Chaos (2009); Sleepers Of Mars (1973); Spectrum IV (1965); Stowaway To Mars / Planet Plane (1935); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter (1956); The Best of British SF 1 (1977); The Best of British SF 2 (1977); The Best of John Wyndham 1932-1949 (1973); The Best of John Wyndham 1951-1960 (1973); The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977); The Chrysalids /Re-Birth (1955); The Curse of the Burdens (2022); The Day of the Triffids / Revolt of the Triffids (1951); The Flying Sorcerers (1997); The Infinite Moment (1961); The Kraken Wakes / Out of the Deeps (1953); The Man From Beyond, And Other Stories (1975); The Microcosmic God (1965); The Midwich Cuckoos (1957); The Moon Era (1967); The Night of the Triffids (2001); The Outward Urge (1961); The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998); The Science Fiction Century, Volume 1 (1997); The Secret People (1935); The Seeds of Time (1956); The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1998); Time Untamed (1967); Trouble with Lichen (1960); Vintage Science Fiction (1999); Wanderers of Time (1973); Web (1979).

Movies and television:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Armchair Theatre (1962); Children of the Damned (1964); Chocky (1984); Chocky's Challenge (1986); Chocky's Children (1985); Cineficción Radio (2021); John Wyndham: The Invisible Man of Science Fiction (2005); Ördögi szerencse (1978); Out of the Unknown (1965–1969); Out of This World (1962); Quest for Love (1971); Random Quest (2006); Spine Chillers (1980); Storyboard (1961); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Day of the Triffids (1963 / 1981 / 2009); The Midwich Cuckoos (2021 / 2022); Time Stops Today (2013); Tonight (1960); Village of the Damned (1960 / 1995); Ways with Words (1965).

Born on this day – John Gilbert:

John Gilbert

Actor

Writer

Director

July 10, 1897 – January 9, 1936

Born on this day – Slim Summerville:

Slim Summerville

Actor

Director

July 10, 1892 – January 5, 1946

Born on this day – Marcel Proust:

Marcel Proust

Writer

July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922

Credits:

Books:

Against Sainte-Beuve and Other Essays (1994); Correspondance, 1914-1922 (1976); In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower / aka Within a Budding Grove (1919); Jean Santeuil (1954); Letters (1948); Letters to a friend (1949); Letters to His Mother (1973); Letters to the Lady Upstairs / aka Letters to His Neighbor (2017); Love Duet And Other Curious Stories About Music (2013); On Art and Literature: 1896-1919 (1996); On Life, Love and Letters (1989); On Reading (1971); On Reading Ruskin (1987); Pleasures and Days / aka Pleasures and Regrets (1896); Selected Letters: 1880-1903 (1983); Selected Letters: 1918-1921 (2000); Sodom and Gomorrah / aka Cities of the Plain (1921); Swann in Love (1913); Swann's Way / aka The Way by Swann's (1913); The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust (2001); The Fugitive / aka Albertine Gone / The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925); The Guermantes Way (1920); The Mysterious Correspondent (2021); The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 (2022); The Prisoner / aka The Captive (1923); Time Regained / aka The Past Recaptured / Finding Time Again (1927).

Movies and television:

À la recherche du temps perdu (2011); Choses vues (1971); Chroniques de France (1969–1972); Correspondances (1953); Dans le temps (2016); Du côté de chez Proust (2010); Guermantes (2021); Ici et là (2005); Le monde de Marcel Proust (2021); Le temps de l'amour (2009); Les cent livres des hommes (1971); Les intermittences du Coeur (1981); Les Nuits de France Culture (2020); Madame Aurélie (1955); Marcel Proust at Elaine Greffulhe's Wedding (1904); Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life (1993); Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999); Omnibus (1971); Preámbulo a un silencio (1986); Swann in Love (1984); The Capote Tapes (2019); The Captive (2000 / 2014); The Five Senses (1999); U cioci Leonii (2018); W strone (2014); Without Walls (1995).

Recommended reading - The Moving Target / aka Harper (1949):

The Moving Target / aka Harper (1949).

By Ross MacDonald.

ISBN-10: 037570146X

ISBN-13: 978-0375701467

Back cover description:

CRIME FICTION

“Ross Macdonald remains the grandmaster, taking the crime novel to new heights by imbuing it with psychological resonance, complexity of story, and richness of style that remain awe-inspiring. Those of us in his wake owe a debt that can never be paid. – Jonathan Kellerman.

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. And as Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.

“Macdonald is one of a handful of writers in the [mystery] genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.” – Los Angeles Times.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the later 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience whop walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

VINTAGE CRIME / BLACK LIZARD

Ann Patchett, on writing:

I made a startling discovery.

Time spent writing = output of work.

Amazing.

- Ann Patchett