This week in history: Jack London, writer, socialist, is born
Jack London, novelist and passionate advocate of labor unions, socialism, and the rights of workers, was born 140 years ago.
Today in history: Alberto Moravia died in 1990
In the same year Italian writer Alberto Moravia died in his Rome apartment at 82, his autobiography, "Vita di Moravia" was published.
Today in history: Writer Ken Kesey born in 1935
Kesey is best remembered for his novels "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"and"Sometimes a Great Notion."
Today in history: Ernest Hemingway is born
Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was one of America's most popular authors.
Today in history: Novelist Saul Bellow born 100 years ago
He would become one of America's great postwar authors, examining complex urban antiheroes at war with the society they live in.
Syd Hoff and A. Redfield: Two sides of the same coin
An almost unknown dimension of his amazing career, discovered by his heirs only after his death in 2004, was Hoff's work for left-wing periodicals in the '30s.
Alice Munro, Canadian writer, wins Nobel Prize in literature
She won a National Book Critics Circle prize for "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage," and is a three-time winner of the Governor General's prize.
Achebe inspired generations of Nigerian writers
Author Chinua Achebe, who revolutionized literature concerning Africa with his groundbreaking novel, "Things Fall Apart," inspired generations of African writers.
