Literature

Poet and writer Dorothy Parker (born Dorothy Rothschild) was born on August 22, 1893, in Long Branch, New Jersey.

On August 9, 1854, transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau published his most famous work – Walden.

On July 8, 1918, author Ernest Hemingway was wounded while serving with the Red Cross on the Italian Front in World War I.

On May 28, 1843, author and lexicographer Noah Webster died in New Haven, Connecticut.

Author Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts.

On May 3, 1915, Canadian physician John McCrae penned the poem, “In Flanders Fields,” in honor of a fallen fellow soldier following the Second Battle of Ypres.

Publisher and politician József “Joseph” Pulitzer was born on April 10, 1847, in Makó, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire.

Newspaper publisher Adolph Simon Ochs was born on March 12, 1858, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts.