Tag: Literature
February 12, 1938: Judy Blume, popular young-adult author, is born
Judy Blume, who redefined the terms of acceptable discourse in children’s literature on her way to selling eighty million copies of her books and seeing them translated into thirty-one languages, was born in Elizabeth,...
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays by Chava Rosenfarb
Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Poland in 1923, she survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immigrating to Canada...
January 16, 1933: Susan Sontag, influential writer, novelist and American essayist was born
Susan Sontag, née Susan Rosenblatt, (born January 16, 1933, New York, New York, U.S.—died December 28, 2004, New York), American intellectual and writer best known for her essays on modern culture.
Sontag (who adopted her...
January 1, 1919: J.D. Salinger was born in Manhattan
J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger, whose 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is one of the most widely read literary works in history, was born in Manhattan on this date in 1919. His father...
September 17, 1724: Glückel Of Hamelnm, Yiddish writer, died on this date
Glikl bas Judah Leib, or Glückel of Hameln, a diarist whose writings in Yiddish provided scholars with an intimate picture of German Jewish ghetto life in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, died on this...
Last batch of Brod and Kafka papers return to Israel after decades in Swiss...
The final batch of personal papers belonging to Max Brod,—one of Czech writer Franz Kafka’s closest confidants—was transferred to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem on Wednesday after decades of legal battles to...