Born on this day – Lawrence Clark Powell:

Lawrence Clark Powell

Writer

Librarian

Bibliographer

September 3, 1906 – March 14, 2001

Credits:

Books:

A Passion for Books (1958); A Southwestern Century; Books in My Baggage (1960); California Classics: The Creative Literature of the Golden State (1971); Eucalyptus Fair (1992); Fortune & Friendship: An Autobiography (1968); Heart of the Southwest; Islands of Books; Land of Fiction; Life Goes On: Twenty More Years of Fortune and Friendship (1986); Philosopher Pickett; Photographs of the Southwest (1976) (with Ansel Adams); Robinson Jeffers, the Man and His Work; Southwestern Book Trails (1982); The Alchemy of Books (1954); The Blue Train (1977); The Little Package (1964); The Malibu (with W.W. Robinson); The Manuscripts of D.H. Lawrence; The River Between (1979); Winter Crossing 1952 - Travel Notes from a Bygone era (1986).

Born on this day – Christiane Delyne:

Christiane Delyne

Actress

September 3, 1902 – April 17, 1966

Born on this day – Sally Benson:

Sally Benson

Writer

September 3, 1897 – July 19, 1972

Credits:

Short stories:

Emily (1938); Junior Miss (1941); Meet Me in St. Louis (1942); People Are Fascinating (1936); Stories of the Gods and Heroes (1940); Women and Children First (1943).

Movies and television:

Anna and the King of Siam (1946); Bus Stop (1961); Come to the Stable (1949); Conspirator (1949); Curtain Call (1952); General Electric Guest House (1951); Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (1958); Joy in the Morning (1965); Junior Miss (1945 / 1946); Little Women (1949); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944 / 1959 / 1966); No Man of Her Own (1950); Occupation Housewife / Yrke: Hemmafru (1967); Shadow of a Doubt (1943 / 1991); Signpost to Murder (1964); Summer Magic (1963); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953); The Singing Nun (1966); Viva Las Vegas (1964); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951).

Read books and let your imagination fly:

Read books and let your imagination fly.

Recommended reading - The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1944):

The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1944).

By Dashiell Hammett.

Published by Must Have Books.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1773237772

ISBN-13: 978-1773237770

Description:

Sam Spade is the tall, tough, smart private detective made famous by Dashiell Hammett in his superb detective novel, The Maltese Falcon. His appearance in the three short stories which make up The Adventures of Sam Spade is good news for his admirers and even better news for those who have yet to meet him. As Sam says, “There ought to be a law making criminals give themselves up…” but since there isn’t one is better qualified than he to take the place of that law. He’s not a fictional detective, not given to elaborate analysis of the crime nor to elaborate restaging of it in front of all the suspects in the hope that one will break down; he’s an honest-to-God detective, astute and industrious enough to find out everything possible and then figure the angles from what he knows.

In addition to the three Adventures of Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett has included here four brilliant short stories, each one terse, masculine, and eminently readable, yet one different in theme and handling. The Assistant Murderer tells of a complicated case neatly solved by Alexander Rush, the detective who is so ugly that people just naturally think he is crooked. Night Shade is a vivid sketch with an O. Henry Ending. The Judge Laughed Last is a story so funny that you’ll be laughing even when the judge is through. And His Brother’s Keeper is a fine prize fight tale told by a tough, dumb, honest and likable fighter.

Contents: Too Many Have Lived; They Can Only Hang You Once; A Man Called Spade; The Assistant Murderer; Night Shade; The Judge Laughed Last; His Brother's Keeper.

P. D. James, on writing:

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us.

I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

- P. D. James.

On this day in movie history - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007):

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,

directed and written by Andrew Dominik,

based on the novel by Ron Hansen,

was released in the United States on September 2, 2007.
Narrated by Hugh Ross.
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Cast:
Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Jeremy Renner, Sam Rockwell, Paul Schneider, Mary-Louise Parker, Zooey Deschanel, Garret Dillahunt, Ted Levine, James Carville, Alison Elliott, Michael Parks, Tom Aldredge, Pat Healy, Michael Copeman, Ron Hansen, Hugh Ross.