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Jean-Antoine Watteau was born in 1684. His painting 'The Scale of Love' is on display in Lower Gallery E

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2014-10-10

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."-Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) died 165 years ago*

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2014-10-08

"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading." - Mahatma Gandhi born in 1869*

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2014-10-03

"The reader became the book." -Wallace Stevens is born in 1879*

·Patti Smith reading Wallace Stevens*

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2014-10-02

August 13th 1964: Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen become the last two men to be hung in Britain.

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2014-08-13

American writer, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize (1921), died in France, 1937*

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2014-08-11

Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden*

in 1854*

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2014-08-09

―George R.R. Martin's 'A Game of Thrones' is published by Bantam Spectra/US & Voyager Books/UK*

in 1996*

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2014-08-06

August 3rd 1936: Jesse Owens wins the 100 m at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. http://t.co/krZEjSShDr

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2014-08-04

Six year-old Sylvia Plath with her brother*

Plath’s journal entry written 1953*

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2014-07-30

Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France, at age 37* 1890*

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2014-07-29

'There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.'

-Robert Graves born 1895* (d.1985).

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2014-07-24

Raymond Chandler, creator of detective Philip Marlowe, is born in Chicago in 1888*

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2014-07-23

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"

―Jane Austen died at age 41 1817*

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2014-07-18

J.D. Salinger's only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is published by Little Brown in 1951*

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2014-07-16

Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt was born (1862)*

Gustav Klimt's studio in Hietzing, Vienna, 1918*

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2014-07-14

"What was our victory? A book, a book without loneliness."

-Pablo Neruda was born in Parral, Chile, 1904*

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2014-07-12