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

August 11

BORN: 1897 Louise Bogan (The Blue Estuaries), Livermore Falls, Maine
1922 Mavis Gallant (From the Fifteenth District), Montreal

DIED: 1890 John Henry Newman (Apologia pro vita sua), 89, Edgbaston, England
1979 J.G. Farrell (Troubles, The Siege of Krishapur), 44, Bantry Bay, Ireland

August 10

BORN: 1962 Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire), Hartford, Conn.
1963 Andrew Sullivan (Virtually Normal), South Godstone, England

DIED: 1948 Montague Summers (The History of Witchcraft and Demonology), 68, Richmond, England

August 9

BORN: 1922 Philip Larkin ("The Whitson Weddings," High Windows), Coventry, England
1949 Jonathan Kellerman (When the Bough Breaks), New York City

DIED: 1967 Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot), 34, London
2008 Mahmoud Darwish (Unfortunately, It Was Paradise), 67, Houston, Tex.

August 8

BORN: 1922 Gertrude Himmelfarb (The Roads to Modernity), Brooklyn
1931 Roger Penrose (The Road to Reality), Colchester, England

DIED: 1984 Ellen Raskin (The Westing Game), 56, New York City
2008 Ted Solotaroff (Truth Comes in Blows), 79, East Quogue, N.Y,

BORN: 1942 Garrison Keillor (Lake Wobegon Days, WLT), Anoka, Minn.
1953 Anne Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down), New York City

DIED: 1941 Rabindranath Tiger (Gitanjali, The Home and the World), 80, Calcutta
1995 Bridget Brophy (Hackenfeller's Ape, Black Ship to Hell) 66, Louth, England

BORN: 1934 Dian di Prima (Loba, Memoirs of a Beatknik), Brooklyn
1934 Piers Anthony (A Spell for Chameleon, Split Infinity), Oxford, England

DIED: 2010 Tony Judt (Postwar, The Memory Chalet), 62, New York City
2012 Robert Hughes (The Fatal Shore, The Shock of the New), 74, Bronx, N.Y.

BORN: 1850 Guy de Maupassant (Bel-Ami, "Boule de Sif"), Dieppe, France
1934 Wendell Berry (Jyber Crow, The Unsettling of America), Her County, Ky,

DIED: 1895 Friedrich Engels (The Condition of the Working Class in England), 74, London
2009 Budd Schulberg (What Makes Sammy Run?), 95, Quogue, N.Y.

August 4

BORN: 1961 Barack Obama (Dreams from My Father), Honolulu
1965 Dennis Lehane (A Drink Before the War, Mystic River), Boston

DIED: 1875 Hans Christian Anderson
("Thumbelina,""The Ugly Duckling"), 70, Copenhagen
2003 James Welch (Fool's Crow, Winter in the Blood), 62, Missoula, Mont.

August 3

BORN: 1920 P.D. James (Death in Holy Orders, The Children of Men), Osford, England
1943 Steven Millhauser (Martin Drestle, Edwin Mullhouse), New York City

DIED: 1924 Joseph Conrad (Nostromo, Victory), 66, Bishopsbourne, England
2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago), 89, Moscow

August 2

BORN: 1924 James Baldwin (Notes of a Native Son, Giovanni's Room), New York City
1942 Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits), Lima, Peru

DIED: 1988 Raymond Carver (Cathedral, Fires), 50, Port Angleles, Wash.
1997 William S. Burroughs (The Soft Machine), 83, Lawrence, Kans.

BORN: 1815 Richard Henry Dana (Two Years Before the Mast), Cambridge, Mass.
1819 Herman. Melville (Type, Moby-Dick), New York City

DIED: 1743 Richard Savage (The Bastard, The Wanderer), c.46, Bristol, England
1963 Theodore Roethke (The Lost Son, The Waking), 55, Bainbridge Island, Wash.

July 31

BORN: 1919 Primo Levi (If This Is A Man, The Truce), Turin, Italy
1965 J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone), Yate England

DIED: 1784 Denis Diderot (Jacques the Fatalist, Rameau's Nephew), 70, Paris
2000 William Maxwell (So Long, See You Tomorrow), 91, New York City

July 30

BORN: 1818 Emily Brontë (Withering Heights), Thornton, England
1924 William Gass (Omene=setter's Luck, The Tunnel), Fargo, N.D.

DIED: 1992 Joe Schuster (Superman), 78, Los Angeles
2012 Maeve Binchy (Circle of Friends, Tara Road), 72, Dublin

July 29

BORN: 1865 Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America), Paris
1965 Chang-Rae Ledd (A gesture Life, Native Speaker), Seoul, South Korea

DIED: 1833 William Wilberforce (A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade), 73, London
1979 Herbert Marcuse (One-Dimensional Man), 81, Strasberg, Germany

July 28
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BORN: 1866 Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), London
1959 William T. Vollmann (Europe Central, Imperial), Los Angeles
DIED: 1995 Don Carpenter (Hard Rain Falling, Turnaround), 64, Mill Valley, Calif.
1996 Roger Tory Peterson (Field Guide to the Birds of North America), 87, Old Lyme, Conn.

July 27

BORN; 1916 Elizabeth Hardwick (Sleepless Nights), Lexington, Ky.
1939 William Eggleston (William Eggleston's Guide), Memphis, Tenn.

DIED: 1946 Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas), 72, Neuilly-sun-Seine, France
1948 Susan Glaspell (Fidelity, A Jury of Her Peers), 72, Provincetown, Mass.

July 26

BIRTH: 1856 George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Major Barbara), Dublin
1894 Also Huxley (Brave New World, Crome Yellow), Godalming, England

DIED: 1934 Winsor McCay (Little Memo in Slumberland), c. 64, Brooklyn
1957 Giuseppe di Lampedusa (The Leopard(, 60, Rome

July 25

BORN: 1902 Eric Hoffner (The True Believer, The Passionate State of Mind), New York City
1905 Elias Canetti (Auto-da-Fé, Crowds and Power), Ruse, Bulgaria

DIED: 1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Kubla Khan), 61, Highgate, England
1966 Frank O'Hara (Meditations in an Emergency), 40, Fire Island, N.Y.

July 24

BORN: 1802 Alexandre Dumas père (The Three Musketeers), Villers-Cotterêts, France
1916 John D. MacDonald (The Deep Blue Good-by), Sharon, Pa.

DIED: 1969 Witold Gombrowicz (Fendydarke, Trans-Atlantyk), 64, Vence, France
1991 Isaac Bashevis Singer (Enemies, a Love Story, The sister), 91, Surfside, Fla.

July 23

BORN: 1888 Raymond chandler (The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely), Chicago
1997 Elspeth Huxley (The Flame Trees of Thick, Red Strangers), London

DIED: 2002 Chaim Potok (The Chosen, My Name Is Asher Lev), 73, Merion, Pa.
2009 E. Lynn Harris (Invisible Life, Jus as I Am), 54, Los Angeles

July 22

BORN: 1936 Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues), Blowin Rock, N.C.
1948 S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders: That Was Then, This Is Now), Tulsa, Okla.

DIED: 1990 Mnuwl Puig (Kiss of the Spider Woman), 57, Cuernavaca, Mexico
1996 Jessica Mitford (Hons and Rebels), 78, Oakland, Calif.

July 21

BORN: 1899 Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms), Oak Park, Ill.
1899 Hart Crane (The Bridge, White Buildings), Garrettsville, Ohio
1966 Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith), Neyland Wales

DIED: 1796 Robert Burns ("A Red Red Rose," "To a Louse", 37, Dumbries, Scotland
1938 Owen Wister (The Virginian, Roosevelt), 78, Saunderstown, R.I.

July 20

BORN: 1924 Thomas Berger (Little Big Man, Neighbors, TheFeud), Cincinnati
1933 Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian, The Road), Providence. R.I.

DIED: 1912 Andrew Lang (The Blue Fairy Book), 63, Banchory, Scotland
1945 Paul Valéry (La Jeune Parque, Monsieur Teste), 73, Paris

July 19

BORN: 1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky (The Bedbug), Baghdati, Russian Empire
1932 Jayne Anne Phillips (Machine Dreams, Lark and Termite), Buckhannon, W.Va.

DIED: 2005 Edward Bunker (Education of a Felon, Dog Eat Dog), 71 Burbank, Calif,
2009 Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes, Teacher Man), 78, New York City