Ever since its birth, writers have been suspicious of the novel, reaching for the authenticity of the real – often presenting their work as memoir, à la Robinson Crusoe.
In honor of the bicentennial of Louis Braille's birth, the writer Ian Rankin, whose son is blind, has launched a campaign to increase the availability of books in Braille, large print, and audio formats.
As Le Monde pointed out on February 13, the hundredth anniversary of Simenon's birth, the writer left his reporting job at the Liège Gazette at the age of 19 and returned to the city only once to visit his mother.
A year of celebrations has been announced to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of writer Dylan Thomas.
Indeed, after December 25 had become widely accepted as the date of Jesus' birth, Christian writers frequently made the connection between the rebirth of the sun and the birth of the Son.
This year is the 110th anniversary of the birth of the writer George Orwell Eric Blairr).
Among other things, the fair will mark the centenary of the birth of the writer Julio Cortázar.
The birth of a writer is a mystery; occurring as it does well past the womb and in plain sight, and all the more hidden because of it.
Hephzibah Anderson Aharon Appelfeld's The Story of a Life (Penguin £7.99, pp2208) describes the author's astonishing escape from Nazi Europe as a boy and his birth as a writer in Israel.
Karla Soyer-Stein New York Correction: September 3, 2005, Saturday A letter to the editor in Science Times on Tuesday responding to the Aug. 23 Cases column, about men's ambivalent reactions to watching their wives give birth, misspelled the writer's given name.
Made by fellow Welshman Griff Rhys Jones's production company Modern TV for BBC Wales, the drama is intended to air on BBC2 on 27 October 2014, 100 years to the day since the birth of the writer best known for his radio "play for voices" Under Milk Wood, as well as his poems about mortality And Death Shall Have No Dominion and Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night.
