Elina Bloch's This Week in OurStory

This Week in OurStory: May1-7

May 1

1672 Joseph Addison, English essayist, editor of the “Spectator,” is born

1700 John Dryden, English poet/playwright, dies

1818 José Amador de los Ríos, Spanish historian/poet, is born

1829 José M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, is born

1862 Marcel Prévost, French publisher/writer, is born

1880 Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet, is born

1900 Ignazio Silone, Italian novelist/politician, is born

1909 Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet, is born

1917 José E Rodo, Uruguayan writer, dies

May 2

0017 Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies

1814 Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"

1818 Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)

1830 Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, is born

1884 Jacques Chardonne, French writer, is born

1920 Isaac Asimov, Russian scientist/writer, author of I Robot, is born

1968 Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies

May 3

0106 Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman/author, is born

1730 Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, is born

1803 Douglas William Jerrold, English author/playwright/wit, is born

1870 Henry Handel Richardson, Australian novelist, is born

1886 John G Fletcher, US poet, is born

1891 Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author, is born

1893 Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist, is born

May 4

1729 Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies

1772 Paul-Louis Courier, French writer/interpreter, is born

1799 Galib Dede/Seyh Galib, Turkish poet, dies at about 40

1804 Charlotte Lennox English novelist, dies

1837 Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilian poet, is born

1878 Alfred Edgar Coppard, English writer, is born

1881 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor, is born

1914 Redjâizade M Ekrem Turkish poet/writer, dies at about 66

1914 Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author, dies at 84

1933 Lucas Lindeboom, Dutch evangelist, dies at 87

1940 Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet, dies at 59

1947 Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic, dies at 71

1965 T S Eliot poet, author of the “Waste Land,” dies in London at 76

May 5

1620 Miklós Zrínyi, Hungarian poet/writer, is born

1799 Mohammed Esad Galib Dede, Turkish poet, dies

1806 Andre H C van Hasselt, Belgian poet, is born

1858 Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author, is born

1902 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author, is born

1932 Umberto Eco, author of the Name of the Rose, is born

1987 Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60

May 6

1488 Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet, is born

1728 Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet, is born

1732 Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer, is born

1826 Herman Grimm, German writer/novelist, is born

1898 Jan Filip Boon, Flemish author/editor, is born

1901 Tómas Gudmundsson, Icelandian poet, is born

1935 George P Baker, US playwright, dies at 68

May 7

1812 Robert Browning, English poet, is born in London

1882 Willem Elsschot [Alfons J de Ridder], Flemish writer, is born

1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories

1917 Daniel Gillès, Belgian writer, is born

1930 Horst Bienek, German poet, is born

1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley

1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty

1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell

TS Eliot image capture from:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GB23Aa01.html