Saturday
Aug. 5, 2000
Timbered Choir
It's writer Wendell Berry's birthday, born in 1934, in Henry County in north-central Kentucky, northeast of Louisville. After teaching at Stanford and in New York, he went back in 1964 to farm and write in the hill country along the Kentucky River where he was born. Berry's most recent poetry book is Sabbath Poems.
It's the birthday in Savannah, Georgia, 1889, of poet Conrad Aiken.
It is the birthday today of Guy de Maupassant, 1850, Dieppe, France. He was taken under the wing of novelist Gustave Flaubert, and went on to become France's greatest writer of short stories. In the 1880s Moupassant wrote 300 short stories, six novels, travel books, verse, and journalism.
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