It’s the birthday of author Maria Lorena Moore, better known as Lorrie Moore, born in 1957 in Glen Falls, NY. While her literary output has been relatively modest, her short stories and novels can be at once devastatingly funny and moving. At 19 Moore won a fiction contest at Seventeen magazine, resulting in her first [...]
It’s the birthday of two California-born authors born seventy-six years apart, Jack London and Walter Mosley. London (real name John Griffith Chaney) was born in San Francisco in 1876 and is perhaps best known for his novels The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). Mosley was born in Los Angeles in 1952 [...]
It’s the birthday of the great philosopher, psychologist, and thinker William James, born in 1842 in New York, NY, brother to novelist Henry James and diarist Alice James. His father was a wealthy Swedenborgian theologian, highly restless and intellectual, and his children received a quirky, irregular, trans-Atlantic education. James got a degree in medicine from [...]