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Ben Okri; Poet, Novelist, Artist, winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for “The Famished Road” celebrates his 62nd birthday today. His latest book is a poetry collection, “A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn.”

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It’s the birthday of the Sylvia Beach (1887). She owned the bookstore Shakespeare and Company which became “the unofficial living room” of the expatriate artists living in Paris.

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It was on this day in 1891 that Henrik Ibsen's play “Ghosts” opened on the London stage, a controversial play dealing with taboo subjects, which refuses the audience a happy ending.

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“I’m only a jolly storyteller and have nothing to do with politics or schemes and my only plan is the old Chinese way of the Tao: Avoid the authorities.”-- Jack Kerouac, born this day 1922

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Today is the birthday of author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916). Unlike most children’s authors at the time, he celebrated city life. His first book was “The Snowy Day” (1962).

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Today we remember Harriet Tubman on the day of her death in 1913. Born into slavery, her birth is unknown. After escaping to freedom in 1849 she returned to help others with the journey.

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"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?" -- Vita Sackville-West, born on this day in 1892

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Today is the 90th birthday of American writer John McPhee. He says when asked how he’s so prolific, “You know, you put an ounce in a bucket each day, you get a quart."

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“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep./But I have promises to keep,/And miles to go before I sleep,/And miles to go before I sleep.” By Robert Frost. Published on this day 1923.

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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” How do we love poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning? Born in Durham, England, 215 years ago today.

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