Reader’s Almanac, Feb. 12, 2019
Reader’s Almanac Born: Thomas Campion, poet, essayist, musician, London, 1567; Cotton Mather, theologist, essayist, poet, psalmist, Boston, Massachusett Bay Colony, 1663; Charles Darwin, naturalist, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 1809; George Meredith, novelist, poet, essayist, Portsmouth, England, 1828; R(onald) F(rederick) Delderfield, short-story writer, novelist, London, 1912; Alan Dugan, poet, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1923; Judy Blume, novelist, children’s author, Elizabeth, […]