Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Born on this day – Veronica Hurst:


Veronica Hurst


Actress

November 11, 1931 – November 15, 2022

Credits:

3-D Rarities (2015); Angels One Five (1952); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951); Coronation Street (1966); Crime of Passion (1971); Dead Man's Evidence (1962); Detective (1968); Dixon of Dock Green (1968–1971); Don't Blame the Stork (1954); Don't Keep It Dark (1967); Fraud Squad (1970); Game of Danger (1954); General Hospital (1973–1975); Here's to the Memory! (1952); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); Knight Errant Limited (1960–1961); Late Night Theatre (1972–1973); Laughter in Paradise (1951); Love Story (1966); Man in a Suitcase (1968); Market in Honey Lane (1967–1969); Mogul (1969); New Scotland Yard (1972); No Hiding Place (1966–1967); Peeping Tom (1960); Public Eye (1966); Remembering John Gregson (2019); Riviera Police (1965); Seven Deadly Virtues (1967); Sexton Blake (1968); Sing and Swing (1963); Talkies (2019); The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World (1965); The Baron (1967); The Boy Cried Murder (1966); The Flaxton Boys (1971); The Gilded Cage (1955); The Girl on the Pier (1953); The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry (1996); The Maze (1953); The Persuaders! (1971); The Pursuers (1961); The Royal African Rifles (1953); The Three Musketeers (1954); The Venus of Bainville (1952); The Year of Living Locked Up (2020); The Yellow Balloon (1953); Turn Out the Lights (1967); Veronica Hurst: Inside 'The Maze' (2018); Who-Dun-It (1969); Will Any Gentleman...? (1953); Wire Service (1957).

Born on this day – John Guillermin:


John Guillermin

Director

Writer

Producer

November 11, 1925 – September 27, 2015

Born on this day – Kurt Vonnegut:


Kurt Vonnegut


Writer

November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007


Credits:

Books:

Galápagos (1985); Bluebeard (1987); Player Piano / Utopia 14 (1952); The Sirens of Titan (1959); Cat's Cradle (1960); Mother Night (1961); Harrison Bergeron (1961); God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965); Slaughterhouse-Five (1969); Between Time and Timbuktu (1972); Breakfast of Champions (1973); Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! (1976); Jailbird (1979); Deadeye Dick (1982); Hocus Pocus (1990); Timequake (1997); The Big Trip Up Yonder (1954); 2 B R 0 2 B (1968); Who Am I This Time? For Romeos and Juliets (1970); God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999); The Honor of a Newsboy (2009); Confido (2009); Hall of Mirrors (2009); A Song for Selma (2009); Hello, Red (2009); The Good Explainer (2009); King and Queen of the Universe (2009); Little Drops of Water (2009); The Nice Little People (2009); Ed Luby's Key Club (2009); Shout about It from the Housetops (2009); FUBAR (2009); Basic Training (2012); Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut (2013); Slice of Life (2016); Canary in a Cat House (1961); 2BR02B (1962); Welcome to the Monkey House (1968); Bagombo Snuff Box (1999); Armageddon in Retrospect (2008); Look at the Birdie (2009); While Mortals Sleep (2011); Sucker's Portfolio (2012); Sinbad (2016); Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974); Palm Sunday (1981); Like Shaking Hands with God (1999); Kurt Vonnegut on Mark Twain, Lincoln, Imperialist Wars and the Weather (2004); A Man Without a Country (2005); Letters (2012); We Are What We Pretend To Be (2012); If This Isn't Nice What Is? (2013); Pity the Reader (2019); Fates Worse Than Death (1982); Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 (2020); Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970); Sun, Moon, Star (1980); Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade (2020); The Flying Sorcerers (1997); The Wizards of Odd (1997); Wizards of Odd (1997); Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview (2005); Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Last Interview (2011); Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth (2002); Connoisseur's Science Fiction (1964); ABC of Science Fiction (1968); Best SF Vol 7 (1971); Masks (1971); Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age (1978); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981); Space Odyssey (1983); A World of Fiction (1983); Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1985); Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987); The Ultimate Frankenstein (1991); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Cybersex: Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms (1996); The Flying Sorcerers (1997); Wizards of Odd (1997); The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998); Writers on Writing (2001); Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth (2002); Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine (2004); Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 (2010); The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 (2010); Slaughterhouse-Five: Critical Insights (2010); Science Fiction Collection 002 (2011); The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack (2012); The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction (2013); Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories (2015); Grave Predictions (2016); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020).

Awards:

1953: nominated for the International Fantasy Award for: Player Piano.
1960: won the Writers Guild of America Award for: Auf Wiedersehen.
1960: finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for: The Sirens of Titan.
1964: finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for: Cat's Cradle.
1970: nominated for the Nebula Award for: Slaughterhouse-Five.
1970: finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for: Slaughterhouse-Five.
1971: won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play for: Happy Birthday Wanda June.
1973: won the Seiun Award for foreign novel for: The Sirens of Titan.
1973: won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation winner for: Slaughterhouse-Five.
1986: won second placed for the John W. Campbell Award for: Galapagos.
2009: won the Audie Award for Short Stories / Collections for: Armageddon in Retrospect.
2015: awarded a place in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, by the Science Fiction Museum.
2019: won the Prometheus Hall of Fame award, by the Libertarian Futurist Society, for: Harrison Bergeron.

Movies and television:

1 Giant Leap (2002); 2081 (2009); 2Br02B (2016); 2BR02b (2016); 2BR02B (2017); 2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be (2016 / 2018); 60 Minutes (1970); 90 Minutes Live (1977–1978); A Curious World (2016); A Man Without a Country (2012); A Matadeira (1994); American Experience (1997); American Playhouse (1982–1985); Automatic Thirteen (2007); Back to School (1986); Between Time and Timbuktu (1972); Breakfast of Champions (1999); Brooklyn Bridge (1981); Bus Stop (1961); Charlie Rose (2007); Curious Matter Anthology (2021); Deer in the Works (1980); Epicac (2008); Film '72 (1972); First Man (2018); FUBAR (2019); Full House (1973); General Electric Theater (1955–1958); God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut (2018); Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971); Harrison Bergeron (1995 / 2006); Here After (2020); 'Hick' Town (2009); Hollywood Insider (2021); I riassuntini (2018); Karikakramäng / Segment: Promenaad (1976); Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Self-Portrait (1975); Kurt Vonnegut: Reporter on the Afterlife (2023); Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021); Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country (2018); Kurt Vonnegut's Saab Dealership (2022); Langmuir's World (1998); Long Walk to Forever (1987 / 2014); Monkey House (1991–1993); Mother Night (1996); Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987); Moving Image Salutes James Stewart (1988); Moving Image Salutes Sidney Poitier (1989); Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All... (2015); Never Down (2007); New Nightmares (1993); Newsstand Theatre (1952); Next Door (1976); Now on PBS (2005); Poetry, Passion, the Postman: The Poetic Return of Pablo Neruda (1996); Real Time with Bill Maher (2005); Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love / Segment: Epicac (1974); Saturday Review (1986); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2024); Sicko (2007); Slapstick of Another Kind (1982); Slaughterhouse-Five (1972); Spegeln - för konst och kultur (1977); Tabu Vergeltung - Die Literaten und der Luftkrieg (2000); The ABCs of Book Banning (2023); The American Ruling Class (2005); The Big Trip Up Yonder (2014); The Civil War (1990); The Congress (1989); The Daily Show (2005); The David Frost Show (1972); The Day of Five Billion (1987); The Dick Cavett Show (1989); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Foster Portfolio (2017); The Larry Solway Show (1976); The Last Day of Charley E. Rays (2016); The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972); The Man from Bagombo (2010); The Merv Griffin Show (1969); The Painted Boy (1995); Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg (1994); Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist (2007).

Born on this day – Robert Ryan:


Robert Ryan

Actor

November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973

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).

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.