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Today in Literary and Art History: May 11

May 11 1864 – Irish author Ethel Voynich born https://amzn.to/3biY80U

May 11 1896 – American author Mari Sandoz born https://amzn.to/3y3vPNG
May 11 1901 – Austrian poet Rose Ausländer born https://amzn.to/3himCuN
May 11 1902 – American screenwriter Gordon Kahn born https://amzn.to/2Q7TTxI
May 11 1912 – Indian writer Saadat Hasan Manto born https://amzn.to/3fcbfSy
May 11 1916 – Spanish writer Camilo José Cela born https://amzn.to/3tMmhU5
May 11 1927 – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is created https://amzn.to/3tBUHZp
May 11 1930 – American author Stanley Elkin born https://amzn.to/3uEfEnU
May 11 1967 – Hungarian poet Géza Röhrig born https://amzn.to/3fedWTN

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Today in Literary and Art History: May 8

May 8 1867 German author Margarete Böhme born https://amzn.to/3vJjjRw
May 8 1885 German artist Arnold Rönnebeck born https://amzn.to/2PZmdSQ
May 8 1910 American author Andrew E. Svenson born
May 8 1915 American author Milton Meltzer born https://amzn.to/33tloFc
May 8 1920 American writer Sloan Wilson born https://amzn.to/3vQTqPF
May 8 1920 Finnish artist Touko Valio Laaksonen “Tom of Finland” born https://amzn.to/2R7bQNt
May 8 1927 Tlingit poet Nora Marks Dauenhauer born https://amzn.to/3nX5TyG
May 8 1936 Japanese manga writer Kazuo Koike born https://amzn.to/3eYdgBO
May 8 1938 French cartoonist Jean Giraud “Moebius” born https://amzn.to/3uwjPSt
May 8 1952 American playwright Elizabeth Becker Henley born https://amzn.to/33rfggv
May 8 1973 Japanese manga artist Hiromu Arakawa born https://amzn.to/2SCUKYf
May 8 1976 Polish writer Zygmunt Miłoszewski born https://amzn.to/2SD5jdO

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What Calamity Jane’s life might really have been like – Interview with Western author K. Lyn Wurth

K Lyn Wurth has written many western stories and novels and she recently wrote a historical novel about western heroine Martha “Calamity” Jane. We spoke about women in the west, Calamity Jane, and K Lyn’s writing process. The Not So Quiet Life of Calamity Jane (Five Star, 2021)

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