Born on this day – Josh Billings:

Josh Billings

Writer

April 21, 1818 – October 14, 1885

Born on this day – Charlotte Brontë:

Charlotte Brontë

Writer

April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855

Credits:

Books:

Emma (1860); Great Short Stories by English and Irish Women (2007); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023); Jane Eyre (1847); Legends of Angria (1933); Mina Laury (1838); My Angria And The Angrians (1830); Selected Letters (2007); Shirley (1849); Shirley, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale (2018); Shirley, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale (2018); Stancliffe's Hotel (2003); Tales of Angria (1839); Tales of the Islanders (1830); The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994); The Complete Poems of Charlotte Bronte (1923); The Foundling (1830); The Green Dwarf (1830); The Professor (1857); The Secret & Lily Hart (1830); The Secret (2006); The Spell (1830); Villette (1853); Women Who Wrote (2020); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

Acting for a Cause (2020); Ardiente secreto (1978); Die Waise (1919); Die Waise von Lowood (1926); El secreto (1963); Grande Teatro Tupi (1959); Guiding Light (1981); I Walked with a Zombie (1943); Jana Eyrová (1972); Jane Eyre (1910); Jane Eyre (1914); Jane Eyre (1915); Jane Eyre (1921); Jane Eyre (1934); Jane Eyre (1943); Jane Eyre (1946); Jane Eyre (1948); Jane Eyre (1955); Jane Eyre (1956); Jane Eyre (1957); Jane Eyre (1958); Jane Eyre (1961); Jane Eyre (1963); Jane Eyre (1968); Jane Eyre (1970); Jane Eyre (1973); Jane Eyre (1983); Jane Eyre (1996); Jane Eyre (1997); Jane Eyre (2006); Jane Eyre (2011); Kraft Theatre (1951); Le memorie di una istitutrice (1917); Matinee Theatre (1957); Mei gu (1956); Monodrama Theater (1953); National Theatre Live: Jane Eyre (2015); Novela (1965–1972); Recordarás mi nombre (1976); Sangdil (1952); Sargasso: A Caribbean Love Story (1991); Shirley (1922); Studio One (1949–1952); Teatre Lliure: Jane Eyre: una autobiografia (2020); The Autobiography of Jane Eyre (2013); The Castle of Thornfield (1915); The Mad Lady of Chester (1910); The Man I Love (1962); Theatre Parade (1937); TV de Vanguarda (1962); Villette (1957); Villette (1970); Wide Sargasso Sea (1993); Wide Sargasso Sea (2006); Woman and Wife (1918).

Recommended reading - Archer in Jeopardy, by Ross Macdonald (1979):

Archer in Jeopardy

By Ross Macdonald.

Anthology.

Published by by Alfred A. Knof.

Published 1979.

Hardcover.

ISBN 13: 9780394508047

ISBN 10: 0394508041

ASIN: 0394508041

Description:

Brings together three of the acclaimed mystery writer's Lew Archer novels – The Doomsters, The Zebra-Striped Hearse, & The Instant Enemy – three winners with the incomparable Macdonald touch.

Hilma Wolitzer, on writing:

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation, but not really a lonely one.

The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

- Hilma Wolitzer.

On this day in television history - Justified (2011):

Justified

Season 2. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: Full Commitment.

Released April 20, 2011.

Directed by Peter Werner.

Written by Graham Yost and Benjamin Cavell.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Jere Burns, Matt Craven, Linda Gehringer, Mickey Jones, David Meunier, William Ragsdale, Kevin Rankin, Richard Speight Jr., Joseph Lyle Taylor, Raymond J. Barry, Boo Arnold, Bow Borden, Patrick Cox, Allen Cutler, Fitz Houston, Steve Humphreys, Jonathan Kowalsky, William Gregory Lee, Stefan Marks, Ryan Smith, J. Kimo Arbas, Josh Harp, Jeremy Timmins.

On this day in television history - Justified (2010):

Justified

Season 1. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: The Collection.

Released April 20, 2010.

Directed by Rod Holcomb.

Written by Graham Yost and Wendy Calhoun.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Katherine LaNasa, Brett Cullen, Rick Gomez, Tony Hale, Peter Jason, Robert Picardo, William Ragsdale, Walton Goggins, Stefan Marks, David Hill.

On this day in movie history - The Hole (2001):

The Hole

directed by Nick Hamm,

written by Ben Court and Caroline Ip,

based on the novel After the Hole by Guy Burt,

was released in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2001.
Music by Clint Mansell.

Cast:

Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Laurence Fox, Keira Knightley, Embeth Davidtz, Steven Waddington, Emma Griffiths Malin, Jemma Powell, Gemma Craven, Anastasia Hille, Kelly Hunter, Maria Pastel, Celia Montague, Kevin Trainor, Lolita Chakrabarti, Claire Fox, Jennifer Hockman, Jack Tanner.