Tag: Biographies

"I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally." - Zelda Fitzgerald  On July 24, 1900, the woman would become known as the eccentric wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald was born. Zelda Sayre grew up in Montgomery, AL and was part of the affluent southern society ... Read More

"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth." --Joseph Michael Straczynski Joseph Michael Straczynski, born July 17th, 1954, is known for screenwriting—most notably the scripts for Thor (2011) and World War Z (2013). On top of turning comic books and novels into screenplays, Straczynski is also ... Read More

Alice McDermott born June 27, 1953 The Richard A. Macksey Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, Alice McDermott  is also the author of seven novels, the latest of which, Someone, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. In 1998, ... Read More

Two or three things we know for sure, and one of them is today is Dorothy Allison's birthday. Born in Greenville, South Carolina on April 11, 1949, Dorothy Allison is an accomplished writer and speaker who is not shy when it comes to talking and writing about the hard things ... Read More

Born June 12, 1890 in Austria. Died October 31, 1918 in Austria. Egon Schiele was an expressionist painter and protégé of Gustav Klimt. He is a major expressionist in the early twentieth century, notable for his raw and sexualized context that included a series of self-portraits. His work can be ... Read More

Joan Miró (Joan Miró i Ferrà), artist Born: April 20, 1893, Barcelona, Spain Died: December 25, 1983, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Born to a watchmaker and consigned to Barcelona’s School of Commerce as a teen, Joan Miró could not shake the paintbrush in his hand or the images that stirred ... Read More

ERNEST MILLER “PAPA” HEMINGWAY Born: July 21,1899, Oak Park, Illinois Died: July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho --- Suicide Ernest “Papa” Hemingway is the expatriate writer we love to hate and hate to love. He is the superhero/antihero equivalent of literary greatness with a Royal Quiet de Luxeon at his hip ... Read More