Status Updates From A Reader's Book of Days: Tr...

June 22

BORN: 1856 H. Rider Haggard (King Solomon's Mines, She), Bradenham, England
1964 Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons), Exeter, N.H.

DIED: 1947 Jim Tully, (Beggars of Life, Circus Parade), 61 Los Angeles
1992 M.F.K. Fisher (The Art of Eating, How to Cook a Wolf), 83, Glen Ellen, Calif.

June 21

BORN: 1905 Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea, No Exit, Being and Nothingness), Paris
1948 Ian McEwan (Atonement, The Cement Garden), Aldershot, England
DIED: 2002 Timothy Findley (The Was, Not Wanted on the Voyage), 71, Brignoles, France
2003 Leon Uris (Exodus, Trinity, Mila 18(, 78, Shelter Island, N.Y.

June 20

BORN: 1905 Lillian Hellman (The Chhildren's House, Pentimento), New Orleans
1952 Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy, The Golden Gate), Kolkata, India

DIED: 1995 E.M. Cioran (The Temptation to Exist, The Trouble with Being Born), 84, Paris
1999 Clifton Radioman (The Lifetime Reading Plan, Party of One), 95, Sanibel, Fla.

June 19

BORN: 1945 Tobia Wolff (This Boy's Life, The Barracks Thief), Birmingham, Ala.
1947 Salmon Rushdie (Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses), Bombay

DIED: 1937 J.M.Barrie (Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton), 77, London
1993 William Golding, (Lord of the Flies), 81, Perranatworthal, England

June 18

BORN: 1953 Amy Bloom (Come to Me, Away), New York City
1957 Richard Powers (Galatea 2.2, The Echo Maker), Evanston, Ill.
DIED: 1902 Samuel Butler (The Way of All Flesh, Erewhon), 66, London
2010 José Saramago (Blindness, The Stone Raft), 87, Tías, Canary Islands

June 17

BORN: 1871 James Weldon Johnson )(The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man) Jacksonville, Fla.
1880 Carl Van Vechten (Nigger Heaven, Firecrackers), Cedar Rapids, Iowa

DIED: 1947 Maxwell Perkis (editor of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wolfe), 62, Stamford, Conn.
1992 Frederick Exley (A Fan's Notes, Pages from a Cold Island), 63, Alexandria Bay, N.Y.

June 16

BORN; 1937 Erich Segal (Love Story, The Death of Comedy), Brooklyn
1938 Joyce Carol Oates (them, We Were the Mulvaneys), Lockport, N.Y.
DIED: 1944 Marc Bloch (French Royal History), 57, Saint-Didier-de-Formans, France
2006 Barbara Epstein (editor, The New York Review of Books), 77, New York City

June 15

BORN: 1914 Saul Steinberg (The Discovery of America), Râmnicu Sarah, Romania
1930 Brian Jacques (Redwall, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman), Liverpool
DIED: 1941 Every Undersell (Mysticism, The Spiritual Life), 65, London
1984 Meredith Wilson (The Music Man), 82, Santa Monica, Calif.

June 14

BORN: 1899 Yasunari Kawabata (Snow Country, A Thousand Cranes(, Osaka, Japan
1941 John Edgar Wideman (Brothers and Keepers), Washington, D.C.
DIED: 1936 G.K. Chesterton (The Man Who Was Thursday), 62, Beaconsfield, England
1986 Jorge Luis Borges (The Garden of Forking Paths), Geneva, Switzerland

June 13

BORN: 1752 Fanny Burney (Evelina, Ceclia, Camilla), King's Lynn, England
1888 Fernando Pessoa (The book of Disquiet) Lisbon
DIED: 1965 Martin Buber (I and Thou, The Way of Man), Jerusalem
1998 Reg Smythe (Andy Capp), 80, Hartlepool, England

June 12

BORN: 1892 Djuna Barnes (Nightwood, Ladies Almanack), Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y.
1929 Anne Frank (The Diary of a Young Girl), Frankfurt, Germany
DIED: 1936 Karl Kraus (Die Fackel, The Third Walpurgis night), 62, Vienna
1972 Edmund Wilson (Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station), 77, Talcottville, N.Y.

June 11

BORN: 1925 William Styron (Sophie's choice, Darkness Visible), Newport News, Va.
1947 Allan Gurganus (Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All), Rock Mount, N.C.
DIED: 1936 Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian), 30, Cross Plains, Tex.
1998 Catherine Cookson (The Fifteen Streets), 91, Newcastle, England

June 10

BORN: 1915 Saul Bellow (The Adventures of Angie March), Lachine, Quebec
1925 James Salter (A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years), New York City
DIED: 1949 Sigrid Undset (Kristin Lavransdatter), 67, Lillehammer, Norway
2011 Patrick Leigh Fermor (A Time of Gifts), 96, Dumbleton, England

June 9

BORN: 1954 Gregory Maguire (Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister), Albany, N.Y.
1956 Patricia Cornwell (Postmortum, Body of Evidence), Miami, Fla.
DIED: 1870 Charles Dickens (Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities), 58, Higham, England
1974 Miguel Ángel Asturias (Men of Maine, The President), 74, Madrid

June 8

BORN: 1903 Marguerite Yourcenar (Memories of Hadrian, The Abyss), Brussels
1947 Sara Paretsky (Blood Shot, Blacklist), Ames Iowa
DIED: 1876 George Sand (Indiana, Mauprat, Consuelo), 71, Nohant, France
1889 Gerard Manley Hopkins ("The Wreck of the Deutschland"), 44, Dublin

June 7

BORN: 1952 Orhan Pamuk (The Black Book, My Name is Red Snow(, Istanbul
1954 Louise Erdrich (Love Medicine, The Round Helmet), Little Falls, Minn.

DIED: 1967 Dorothy Parker (Enough Rope, Here Lies), 73,New York City
1970 E. M. Forster (Howards End, A Passage to India), 91, Coventry, England

June 6

BORN: 1875 Thomas Mann (Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice), Lübeck, Germany
1923 V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind), Portsmouth, Va.
DIED: 1961 Carl Jung (Man and His Symbols, The Red Book), 85, Zurich
1982 Kenneth Rexroth (One Hundred Poems from the Japanese), 76, Santa Barbara, Calif.

June 5

BORN: 1939 Margaret Drabble (The Waterfall, The Millsone), Sheffeild, England
1958 Geoff Dyer (Out of Sheer Rage, But Beautiful), Cheltenham, England
DIED: 1900 Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage), 28, Badenweiler, Germany
2012 Ray Bradbury (Dandelion Wine, The Illustrated Man), 91, Los Angeles

June 4

BORN: 1955 Val McDermid (A Place of Execution), Kirkcaldy, Scotland
1972 Joe Hill (20th Century Ghosts, Heart-Shaped Box), Hermon Maine
DIED: 1967 J.R. Ackerley (My Dog Tulip, My Father and Myself), 70, London
2010 David Markson (Wittgenstein's Mistress, Reader's Block), 82, New York

June 3

BORN: 1930 Marion Zimmer Badley (The Mists of Avalon), Albany, N.Y.
1936 Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show), Archer City, Tex.
DIED: 1924 Franz Kafka (The Trial, The Castle), 40 Kierling, Austria
1992 Bill Gaines (publisher of Mad, E Comics), 70, New York City

June 2

BORN: 1840 Thomas Hardy (The Return of the Native), Stanford, England
1929 Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth, The Dot and the Line), Brooklyn
DIED: 1961 George S. Kaufman (The Man Who Came to Dinner, 71, New York City
1989 Frederic Prokosch (The Asiatics), 89, Le-Plan-de-Grasse, France

June 1

BORN: 1932 Christopher Lasch (The Culture of Narcissism), Omaha, Ben.
1937 Colleen McCullough (The Thorn Birds), Wellington, Australia
DIED: 1952 John Dewey (Democracy and Education), 92, New York City
1968 Helen Keller (The Story of My Life), 87, Easton, Conn.