This week's literary birthdays

Johnson & Boswell, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1765

10/29:

James Boswell, 1740; Henry Green, 1905.

10/30:

Dostoevsky, 1821; Ezra Pound, 1885; Robert A. Caro, 1935; Paul Valery, 1871

10/31:

John Evelyn, 1620; Dick Francis, 1920; John Keats, 1795

11/1:

Stephen Crane, 1871; Naomi Murchison, 1877; Grantland Rice, 1880; James J. Kilpatrick, 1920; Lee Smith, 1944

11/2:

Odysseus Elytis, 1911

11/3:

Thomas Kyd, 1558; William Cullen Bryant, 1794; Andre Malraux, 1901; Walker Evans, 1903; James Reston, 1909; Terrence McNally, 1939; Martin Cruz Smith, 1942

11/4:

Robert Mapplethorpe, 1946; Kathy Griffin, 1960

Robert Mapplethorpe, Self-portrait, 1988