Born on this day – Beverly Bayne:

Beverly Bayne

Actress

November 11, 1894 – August 18, 1982

Born on this day – Anna Katharine Green:

Anna Katharine Green

Writer

November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935

Credits:

The Leavenworth Case (1878); A Strange Disappearance (1880); Hand and Ring (1883); Behind Closed Doors (1888); A Matter of Millions (1891); The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock (1895); That Affair Next Door (1897); Lost Man's Lane (1898); The Circular Study (1900); One of My Sons (1901); Initials Only (1911); Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (1917); That Affair Next Door (1897); Lost Man's Lane (1898); The Circular Study (1900); Agatha Webb (1899); The Woman in the Alcove (aka A Woman of Mystery) (1906); The House of the Whispering Pines (1910); XYZ (1883); The Mill Mystery (1886); 7 to 12 (1887); The Forsaken Inn (1890); Cynthia Wakeham's Money (1892); Marked Personal (1893); Miss Hurd - An Enigma (1894); Dr. Izard (1895); The Filigree Ball (1903); The House in the Mist (1905); The Millionaire Baby (1905); The Chief Legatee (1906); The Chief Lagatee (1907); The Mayor's Wife (1907); The Sward of Damocles (1909); Three Thousand Dollars (1910); Dark Hollow (1914); The Step On the Stair (1923); The Defense of the Bride (poems) (1882); The Old Stone House (1891); A Difficult Problem (1900); The Amethyst Box (1905); Masterpieces of Mystery (1912); The Golden Slipper (1915); To the Minute, Scarlet and Black (1916); Room Number 3 (1919); The Collected Mysteries of Anna Katharine Green (2011); The Bronze Hand (1897).

Recommended reading - The Blue Knight (1972):

The Blue Knight

By Joseph Wambaugh.

First published 1972.

Published by Grand Central Publishing.

Mass Market Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0446509191

ISBN-13: 978-0446509190

Description:

Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Gritty, luminous, and ultimately stunning, this novel is Wambaugh at his best – a tale of a street cop on the hardest beat of his life.

The Blue Knight.

Twenty and two. Those are the numbers turning in the mind of William "Bumper" Morgan: twenty years on the job, two days before he "pulls the pin" and walks away from it forever. But on the gritty streets of L.A., people look at Bumper like some kind of knight in armor – they've plied him with come-ons, hot tips, and the hard respect a man can't earn anywhere else. Now, with a new job and a good woman waiting for him, a kinky thief terrorizing L.A.'s choice hotels, and a tragedy looming, Bumper Morgan is about to face the only thing that can scare him: the demons that he's been hiding behind his bright and shiny badge...

“Marvelous … realistic, frightening, touching in its humanity. – Detroit Free Press.

“An extraordinary piece of craftsmanship.” – Los Angeles Times.

Laini Taylor, on writing and reading:

I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough.

It does not, for example, contain dragons.

I find this unsatisfactory.

So I read.

And I write.

- Laini Taylor.

Veterans Day:

Veterans Day

In honor of all who serve, and all who have served.

We will never forget.

#VeteransDay
#November11
#HonorOurVeterans
#FreedomIsNotFree
#NeverForget
#Army
#Navy
#AirForce
#USMC
#MilitaryHeroes
#ToAllWhoServe

Photograph of Sgt. George R. Kost, shown in LIFE Magazine.
December 25, 1944.
Volume 17, Number 26.
Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

On this day in movie history - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017):

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

directed and written by Martin McDonagh,

was released in the United States on November 10, 2017.
Music by Carter Burwell.

Cast:

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Željko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Samara Weaving, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Kerry Condon, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Kathryn Newton, Brendan Sexton III, Amanda Warren, Malaya Drew, Christopher Berry, Jerry Winsett, Sandy Martin, Nick Searcy.

On this day in music history - The Circle, by Bon Jovi (2009):

The album The Circle,

by Bon Jovi,

was released on November 10, 2009.