Authors' Birthdays/October

1st

• Sergey Aksakov (1791 - 1886), 1 released;
• Faith Baldwin (1893- ), none released;

  slshell reports that the Public Domain work is too pricey.

• Louis Untermeyer (1885- ), none released;

2nd

• Wallace Stevens (1879- ), none released;

3rd

• Henri Alain-Fournier (1886-1914), 1 released;
• Sir Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554-1628), none released;

4th

• Damon Runyon (1884-1946), none released;
• Edward Stratemayer See under Winfield, Arthur M (1862-1930), 7 released; 1 cleared - Edward Stratemeyer books at Project Gutenberg

   JulietS has a bunch of books by him, some of which haven't been sent in for clearance yet. Will try to give them priority for scanning.

5th

• Denis Diderot (1713-1784), 1 released;
• Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), none released;
• John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), 3 released; 4 cleared (2003)

   JulietS will find "The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti" and see about scanning it. 

7th

• Marguerite Florence Laura Jarvis (aka Oliver Sandys, Countess Barcynska and other pen names) (1886-1964), British writer
• James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), 3 released; 5 (new) cleared - Riley books at Project Gutenberg

  JulietS has The "Hoosier Book of Riley Verse" and will make a point of scanning it asap

8th

• John Milton Hay (1838-1905), 3 released;
• John Cowper Powys (1872- ), none released; 1 cleared

9th

• Ivo Andri'c (1892- ), none released;

10th

• Aleksis Kivi (1834- ), none released;

11th

• Steen Steensen Blicher (1782- ), 1 released;
• Francois Mauriac (1885- ), none released;

12th

• George Washington Cable (1844-1924), none released; 1 cleared

  slshell reports that "The Cavalier" and "Strong Hearts" are scanned and ready to be proofed on the birthday.

13th

• Conrad Richter (1890- ), none released;

14th

• Edward Estlin Cummings, popularly known as E. E. Cummings (1894-1962), 1 released;
• Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), 2 released; 1 cleared

15th

• Robert Herrick (1591-1674), 1 released; 1 cleared

  Thierry says he is post processing 2 of his works and will try to post for his B'day.

• Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), 1 released;
• Virgil (*70 B.C.-19 B.C.), 6 released; 3 cleared
• P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse (1881-1975), 34 released; 1 cleared (2002)'

16th

• Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), 3 released; 1 cleared
• Noah Webster (1758-1843), 3 released;

17th

• Georg Buchner (1813-1837), 2 released (1 in German);
• Elinor Glyn (1864- ), 2 released; 4 cleared

  slshell His Hour was posted 10/03. Can those underway be completed for the event?
 "The Price of Things" has been scanned and OCR'ed; it will be available for proofing on 10/17.

• Jupiter Hammon (1711- ), none released;

18th

• Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885), 1 released;
• [Bernd] Heinrich [Wilhelm] von Kleist (1777-1811), 5 released; 1 cleared
• [Pierre Ambroise Francois] Choderlos de Lacloc (1741-1803), none released;
• Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), 2 released; 1 cleared

  slshell says "Nightmare Abbey", has just been checked out for PP. Can the PP-er complete this for the birthday?

19th

• Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), 1 released;
• [James Henry] Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), none released; 1 cleared

   Thierry has a clearance on his Autobiography and will see if he can put it in the rounds for the B'day.

• Fannie Hurst (1889- ), none released;

  slshell has scanned and OCR'ed "Humoresque", and "Star-Dust"; they will be available for proofing on the birthday.  

• Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius (1882- ), none released;

20th

• Thomas Hughes (1822-1896), 1 released; 2 cleared
• Daniel Owen (1836- ), none released;
• Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), none released;

21st

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), 8 released; 6 cleared

  Jon & Clytie:  Do you think his B'day would fit with your schedules for "The Complete Coleridge"? Would you need help?

• Alphonse [Marie Louis de Prat] Lamartine (1790-1869), none released; 2 cleared (2002)

22nd

• Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), none released; 1 in progress 1997
• Edmond Dulac (1882-1953)

23rd

• Robert [Seymour] Bridges (1844-1930), none released; 3 cleared

25th

• Eduardo Barrios (1884 - ), none released;
• [Henri] Benjamin Constant [de Rebecque] (1767 - 1830), 2 released - Constant books at Project Gutenberg
• Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), 14 released; 2 cleared - Macaulay books at Project Gutenberg
• Gleb Ivanovich Uspensky (1843 - 6 Apr 1902), Russian author

26th

• Charles Sprague (1791 - ), 1 released; - Sprague books at Project Gutenberg

27th

• Enid Bagnold (1889- ), none released;

  slshell"The Happy Foreigner" has been scanned and OCR'ed, and will be available for proofing on the birthday. 

28th

• Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), 1 released; 1 cleared

29th

• James Boswell (1740-1795), 4 released; 1 cleared
• Jean [Hippolyte] Giraudoux (1882-1944), none released;
• Guillermo Valencia (1873- ), none released;

30th

• Andre Marie de Chenier (1762-1794), none released;
• Ezra [Weston Loomis] Pound (1885-1972), 1 released;
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), 4 released; 2 cleared
• Paul Valery (1871- ), none released;

31st

• John Evelyn (1620-1706), none released; 1 (old) cleared
• John Keats (1795-1821), 2 released; 8 cleared

   Thierry reports that 2 volumes of Poetry and a biography can be in Verification by the beginning of October ... and it's likely that another biography and his Letters could make it for the end of October.

• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), 23 released;

   Thierry will have the Frank Harris biography ready for release by Oscar's B'day.