Today is the 137th birthday of Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy, one half of an amazing Jazz Age Lost Generation couple. I think that I first ‘discovered’ Gerald
Tag: Ernest Hemingway
Happy 121st Birthday Ernest Hemingway
Today is the 121st birthday of the writer Ernest Hemingway. Nobel Prize winner, war correspondent, sustained a shrapnel injury, was in two plane crashes (2
Happy 136th Birthday Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy
Today is the 136th birthday of Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy, one half of an amazing Jazz Age Lost Generation couple. I think that I first ‘discovered’ Gerald
Happy 120th Birthday Ernest Hemingway
Today is the 120th birthday of the writer Ernest Hemingway. Nobel Prize winner, war correspondent, sustained a shrapnel injury, was in two plane crashes (2
Happy 135th Birthday Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy
Today is the 135th birthday of Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy, one half of an amazing Jazz Age Lost Generation couple. I think that I first ‘discovered’ Gerald
Happy 88th Birthday Shel Silverstein
Today is the 88th birthday of the poet Shel Silverstein. He has played an important role in a lot of children’s lives. His books and poems
Happy 134th Birthday Maxwell Perkins
Today is the 134th birthday of Maxwell Perkins. My first exposure to him was from reading a book of correspondence between him and F. Scott
Happy 119th Birthday Ernest Hemingway
Today is the 119th birthday of the writer Ernest Hemingway. Nobel Prize winner, war correspondent, sustained a shrapnel injury, was in two plane crashes (2
Happy 86th Birthday Anthony Perkins
Today is the 86th birthday of the actor/director/singer Anthony Perkins. You’ve obviously seen Psycho, but have you seen Pretty Poison or Murder on the Orient Express?
Happy 129th Birthday Gerald Murphy
Today is the 129th birthday of one half of one of the most elegant couples of the Jazz-Age-Lost-Generation-Paris-in-the-1920s: Gerald Murphy. I think that I first ‘discovered’
Happy 131st Birthday Juan Gris
Today is the 131st birthday of the artist Juan Gris. When I see his art, I hear the jazz, see the dancers, smell the cigarette
Happy 137th Birthday Fernand Léger
Today is the 137th birthday of the French artist Fernand Léger. His developed style of painting is distinctively his own. I see a combination of Picasso
