Saturday
Dec. 12, 1998
Snow Too
Poem: "Snow Too," by C.K. Williams, from FLESH AND BLOOD (Farrar Straus & Giroux).
Playwright and film producer JOHN OSBORNE, author of Look Back in Anger, was born in London in 1929.
Abstract painter HELEN FRANKENTHALER was born in New York City in 1928.
ROBERT NORTON NOYCE, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, the invention which eventually led to the development of the microcomputer, was born in Burlington, Iowa in 1927.
Singer and actor FRANK SINATRA was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1915.
Southern writer and civil rights activist LILLIAN SMITH was born in Jasper, Florida in 1897.
Actor EDWARD G. ROBINSON was born in Bucharest, Rumania in 1893.
Norwegian artist EDVARD MUNCH, famous for his painting "The Scream," born in Loten in 1863.
French novelist GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, author of Madame Bovary, was born in Rouen in 1821.
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