{"id":836,"date":"2018-09-04T10:54:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/?p=836"},"modified":"2018-08-25T14:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T19:55:51","slug":"literary-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/2018\/09\/04\/literary-birthdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 1 \u2013 <\/strong><em>Tarzan of the Apes <\/em>\u00a0creator Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was born in Chicago. Before becoming a novelist, he was as correspondent for the <em>Los Angeles Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 15 \u2013 <\/strong>American novelist, historian and social critic, James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was born in Burlington, New Jersey. Best known for <em>\u00a0The Last of the Mohicans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 15 \u2013 <\/strong>British mystery author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born in Torquay, England. She wrote nearly a hundred books including mysteries, dramas, poetry and nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 19 \u2013 <\/strong>British author William Golding (1911-1993) was born in Cornwall, England. Best known for <em>Lord of the Flies<\/em>, he received a Nobel Prize in 1983.<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 24 \u2013 <\/strong>American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota (as Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald). Best known for <em>This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby<\/em>, and <em>Tender is the Night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 25 \u2013 <\/strong>American writer William Faulkner (1897-1962) was born in New Albany, Mississippi. Best known for <em>The Sound and the Fury <\/em>and <em>The Reivers. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 26 \u2013 <\/strong>Writer T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1937) was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He rejected conventional verse and language in favor of free expression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 30 \u2013 American <\/strong>writer Truman Capote (1924-1984) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana (as Truman Streckfus Persons). He took the last name of his stepfather, becoming Truman Capote. Best known for <em>Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s <\/em>and <em>In Cold Blood.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 1 \u2013 Tarzan of the Apes \u00a0creator Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was born in Chicago. Before becoming a novelist, he was as correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. September 15 \u2013 American novelist, historian and social critic, James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was born in Burlington, New Jersey. Best known for \u00a0The Last of the&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/2018\/09\/04\/literary-birthdays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Literary Birthdays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-birthdays","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}