Anniversaries, 9 April
Charles Baudelaire
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was born in Paris. His father, a government official during the reign of Napoleon, was interested in philosophy and art. In 1819, after the death of his first wife, he married a young woman who was to be Baudelaire’s mother. When his father died in 1827, the poet, author, art and literary critic to be was only six years old. His mother married an officer and future general, ambassador and senator named Jacques Aupick, perhaps the most notorious stepfather in the h...
Anniversaries, 9 April
Lars Norén
Swedish author, poet, and playwright, born in Stockholm. Lars Norén was raised partly in the province of Skåne (Scania). His father was a head waiter. His mother died early from cancer. His struggle to overcome the loss of his mother emerges in different ways in large parts of his authorship. In the 1960's, Lars Norén was put in a clinic for mental disorder and would afterwards go to psychoanalysis for some fifteen years. Lars Norén was 1993-2002 married to the playwright and publisher Cha...
Anniversaries, 9 April
Jacques Futrelle
The American journalist and author Jacques Heath Futrelle made sure there was room for his wife in a lifeboat before he went down with the Titanic. He was only thirty-seven years old when he drowned, taking six or seven recently finished short stories about the original amateur sleuth, the super-intelligent genius Professor Augustus S.F.X Van Dusen, known as The Thinking Machine, into the depths.
Little is known about the author’s early life. He was born in the Georgia, the United States. His f...
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Blackwood, Algernon
The British author Algernon Henry Blackwood grew up in a strictly religious home in Kent. He soon abandoned his Christian faith for Buddhism, thereby laying the foundation for a life-long interest in Eastern mysticism, the occult and Theosophy. He spent a year between 1885 and 1886 with the Moravian Brethren in Germany, and after a failed business attempt he became a dairy farmer in Canada in...