Books: Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22”
Aug. 21, 1962 - “Catch-22,” a satirical novel by Joseph Heller (pictured while serving in WWII) about the Air Force, will be turned into...
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Aug 9, 2022
Author Hermann Hesse Dead at 85
Aug. 9, 1962 - Hermann Hesse (pictured last year), the German-born Swiss author who won the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature, died today...
Apr 20, 2022
William Faulkner Visits West Point
Apr. 20, 1962 - William Faulkner ended a two-day visit to West Point today. He said he had been “pleasantly astounded” by the literary...
Mar 8, 2022
Hemingway Left Four Novels, Dozens of Unpublished Stories
Mar. 8, 1962 - Unpublished novels by Ernest Hemingway (second from left) — possibly four of them — and dozens of stories and sketches...
Jan 28, 2022
Books: Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August"
Jan. 28, 1962 - Available in bookstores today is “The Guns of August,” a volume of history by Barbara W. Tuchman centered on the first...
Nov 2, 2021
Humorist James Thurber is Dead
Nov. 2, 1961 - James Thurber, the writer and humorist, died of pneumonia today at New York Doctors Hospital, where he had undergone...
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