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Born #onthisday1903 Benjamin Spock American pediatrician best-selling #author Baby and Child Care (1946) 1 of the 20th-century’s best-selling books selling 50 million by Spock's death (1998) parenting advice revolutionized the approach to parental upbringing in the United States
Born #onthisday1903 Frank Belknap Long American #horror #sciencefiction #fantasy #Gothic #romance x30 #novels #comicbook #NonFiction #writer Best known for horror & #scifi #shortstories x12 collections inc Rim of the Unknown (1978) + early contributions to Cthulhu Mythos universe
Born #onthisday1903 Malcolm Muggeridge English #journalist #satirist wit & penetrating analyst Converted to Christianity promoted Mother Teresa Social critic of sexual revolution & drug use Remembered 4 Winter in Moscow (1934) Like it Was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge (1981)
Born #onthisday1903 Adolph Gottlieb American #AbstractExpressionist #painter #sculptor #printmaker had 56 solo exhibitions participated in 200+ group exhibitions Best known for Sun Deck Homestead on the Plain (1936) Homestead on the Plain (1941) Cadmium Red Above Black (1959)
Born #onthisday1903 Morley Callaghan Canadian #novelist x13 #novella x6 #shortstoreywriter x11 collections #playwright x4 #NonFiction x 2 TV & radio personality 1st #novel Strange Fugitive (1928) Known 4 Native Argosy (1929) #YAlit Luke Baldwin's Vow (1947) & damaged characters
Born #onthisday1903 Georges Simenon prolific Belgian #mystery #writer Published approx 200 #novels 150 #novellas & scores of pulp novels / #shortstories Achieved international recognition with Jules Maigret character & series of detective #novels 550 million copies in print
Born #onthisday1903 Alan Paton South African #authorresolute anti-apartheid activist & prolific #essayist on South African race and political issues Signature #novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) adapted 4 film (1951) & (1955) changed course of his life Too Late the …
Born #onthisday1903 Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE English #artist & #sculptor Work exemplifies #Modernist modern sculpture in particular One of few female artists of generation achieve international prominence Early work highly interested in abstraction & European art movements ...
Born #onthisday1903 Joseph Cornell American #artist one of pioneers & most celebrated exponents of assemblage Deeply influenced by #Surrealists typical art works comprised boxed assemblages created from found objects Cornell was also a daring #avantgarde experimental filmmakers
Born #onthisday1903 Erskine Caldwell American #novelist #shortstoreywriter 1st 2 books The Bastard (1929) & Poor Fool (1930) won critical acclaim for writing about South’s social problems racism poverty Best known for #novels Tobacco Road (1932) God's Little Acre (1933)
Born #onthisday1903 Kitty Muggeridge British #author #translator Known 4 Beatrice Webb: A Life 1858–1943 (1967) Bright Legacy (1983) remark about broadcaster David Frost “he rose without trace" much quoted translated 2 books by 18th-century Jesuit priest Jean Pierre de Caussade
Born #onthisday1903 Walker Evans American #photographer famed for his Farm Security Administration work (1935 – 1938) documenting impact of the Great Depression Using a hidden camera he took his first photographs in New York City Subway in 1938 & became Time staff writer in 1949
Born #onthisday1903 Evelyn Waugh English #author renowned for #novels #biographies #travelwriting Prolific #journalist & book reviewer Signature works Decline and Fall (1928) uncompromising brilliantly malicious #satire Scoop (1938) returned to earlier #comic style Brideshead …
Born #onthisday1903 Harry Shoulberg American #Expressionist #painter early WPA Federal Art Project artists working in screen print medium member of National Serigraph Society won 1st prize Art for Bonds (1943) Jane Peterson Philipp Prize (1956) M.J. Kaplan Memorial Award (1966)
Born #onthisday1903 Pixie O'Harris MBE Welsh-born Australian #author x 2 #poet x 5#artist newspaper magazine & book #illustrator x31 broadcaster caricaturist & cartoonist book plate sheet music covers & stationery designer & children's hospital ward fairy-style mural painter
Born #onthisday1903 Mark Rothko prolific American #artist often associated with #AbstractExpressionism completed 836 paintings Saw colour as merely an instrument November 2018 Untitled (Rust, Blacks on Plum) (1962) was sold for $35.7 million at auction by Christie's
Born #onthisday1903 Phyllis Whitney American #YAfiction & adult #mystery #novelist x70+ explored exotic settings 1st #novel A Place for Ann (1941) Amethyst Dreams (1997) last book Known 4 Vermilion (1981) Rainsong (1984) The Mystery of the Haunted Pool (1961) won Edgar Award
