This Day in History - August 22nd, 1893: In the 1920s, Dorothy Parker (born August 22, 1893) came to fame writing book reviews, poetry, and short fiction for fledgling magazine The New Yorker. She was also a fixture of the Algonquin Hotels Round Table, famous for hosting the wittiest debates and banter...Parker was the sharpest wit of the Algonquin Round Table, as well as a master of short fiction and a blacklisted screenwriter. --Bio. 1920: Ray Bradbury was an American fantasy and horror author who rejected being categorized as a science fiction author, claiming that his work was based on the fantastical and unreal. His best known novel is Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian study of future American society in which critical thought is outlawed. He is also remembered for several other popular works, including The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury won the Pulitzer in 2004, and is one of the most celebrated authors of the 21st century. He died in Los Angeles on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91. --Bio. 1935: Edna Annie Proulx began by writing commissioned nonfiction books and founding a rural Vermont newspaper. Her first novel, Postcards (1992), received the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 1993, Proulx won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News. Her short story Brokeback Mountain was made into a feature film in 2005. --Bio. Todays This Day in History was provided by BIO. If youd like to learn more, we can help!
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