Great Minds Born in November

 Here are all the "Great Minds" posts made in November, 2021.

November 1

• Stephen Crane (1871-1900) American poet, novelist, and short story writer The Red Badge of Courage; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; "The Open Boat"; "The Blue Hotel"; "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"; The Monster
• Sholem Asch (1880-1957) Polish-American Yiddish novelist, dramatist, and essayist who wrote Three Cities; The Nazarene; The Apostle; Mary; Tales of My People (short stories)

November 2

• Ryokan Taigu (1758-1831) Japanese monk and poet; numerous short poems
• William H. Brewer (1828-1910) American botanist known for a travel account, Up and Down California in 1860-64

November 3

• Lucan (39-65) Roman poet known for Pharsalia or De Bello Civili (On the Civil War); perhaps Laus Pisonis (Praise of Piso)
• Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) artisan in the Italian Renaissance known for his Autobiography
• William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) American poet; "Thanatopsis"; "To a Waterfowl"
• Andre Malraux (1901-1976) French novelist La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate)

November 4

• Will Rogers (1879-1935) American political humorist who claimed he never met a man he didn't like.
• G. E. Moore (1873-1958) English philosopher Principia Ethica; "The Refutation of Idealism"; "A Defence of Common Sense"; "A Proof of the External World"

November 5

• Will Durant (1885-1981) American writer, historian, and philosopher The Story of Civilization; The Story of Philosophy
• J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964) British-born Indian scientist Daedalus; or, Science and the Future; My Friend Mr. Leakey
• Sam Shepard (1943-2017) American playwright Buried Child; A Lie of the Mind; Curse of the Starving Class; Fool for Love; True West; Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1979)

November 6

• Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) English playwright; The Spanish Tragedy; King Leir; Arden of Faversham; Edward III
• Jonas Lie (1833-1908) Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright who wrote The Family at Gilje and One of Life’s Slaves; with Ibsen, Bjørnson, and Kielland, one of Norway's "Four Greats."
• John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) American composer; "The Stars and Stripes Forever"; "Semper Fidelis"; "The Liberty Bell"; "The Thunderer"; "The Washington Post"
• James Jones (1921-1977) American novelist From Here to Eternity; Some Came Running; The Thin Red Line

November 7

• Albert Camus (1913-1960) French philosopher, author, and journalist The Stranger; The Plague; The Myth of Sisyphus; Nobel Prize in Literature (1957)
• Ibn Hazm (994-1064) Andalusian Muslim poet and philosopher who wrote Tawq al-Hamama (The Ring of the Dove)
• Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) Austrian biologist On Aggression; King Solomon's Ring; Man Meets Dog; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (1973)
• Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-French scientist The Discovery of Radium; Pierre Curie

November 8

• Bram Stoker (1847-1912) Irish author; Dracula
• Dorothy Day (1897-1980) American journalist and activist; autobiography The Long Loneliness
• Julian of Norwich (1342-1416) English mystic; Revelations of Divine Love

November 9

• Carl Sagan (1934-1996) American scientist and author; Cosmos: A Personal Voyage; The Dragons of Eden; Pale Blue Dot; Contact (novel); Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, (1978)
• Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright known for the novel Fathers and Sons

November 10

• Martin Luther (1483-1546) German monk, theologian, and religious founder; The Ninety-Five Theses; Address to the Christian Nobility; Concerning Christian Liberty
• Neil Gaiman (1960-) English novelist and short story writer; The Sandman; Neverwhere; American Gods; Stardust; Coraline; The Graveyard Book; Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett); The Ocean at the End of the Lane; short stories in M is for Magic

November 11

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher; Poor Folk; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Demons; The Brothers Karamazov; Notes from Underground
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist and short story writer; Player Piano; The Sirens of Titan; Cat's Cradle; Slaughterhouse-Five; Breakfast of Champions; short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House includes "Harrison Bergeron," "Who Am I This Time?" and "EPICAC"

November 12

• Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695) Mexican nun under colonial Spain who wrote poetry and dramas
• Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) French sculptor; The Age of Bronze; The Walking Man; The Burghers of Calais; The Kiss; The Thinker

November 13

• Augustine (354-430) Roman Christian theologian and Church Father; Confessions of St. Augustine; City of God
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer; Treasure Island; A Child's Garden of Verses; Kidnapped; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

November 14

• Aaron Copland (1900-1990) American composer; Appalachian Spring; Fanfare for the Common Man; Lincoln Portrait
• Claude Monet (1840-1926) French painter; Impression, Sunrise; Rouen Cathedral series; London Parliament series; Water Lilies series; Poplars; The Bridge at Argenteull; Haystacks
• Karen Armstrong (1944-) British religion writer; A History of God; The Battle for God; The Case for God

November 15

• Marianne Moore (1887-1972) American poet; Collected Poems; "Poetry" (a poem); Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (1951)
• Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) American artist called the "Mother of American modernism," who captured America from the skyscrapers of Manhattan to the deserts of New Mexico.
• J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) English novelist and short story writer (including science fiction), and essayist; The Wind from Nowhere; The Drowned World; Crash; Empire of the Sun; High-Rise

November 16

• W. C. Handy (1873-1958) American composer and performer; "St. Louis Blues"; "Beale Street Blues"
• Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic; The "African Trilogy", (Things Fall Apart; No Longer at Ease; Arrow of God); A Man of the People; Anthills of the Savannah

November 17

• Shelby Foote (1916-2005) American historian and novelist; The Civil War: A Narrative; numerous Ken Burns specials
• Martin Scorsese (1942-) American filmmaker; Taxi Driver; Raging Bull; The Last Temptation of Christ; Goodfellas; Gangs of New York; The Aviator; The Departed; Hugo; The Wolf of Wall Street; numerous Academy Award nominations, one win (The Departed)

November 18

• W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) English dramatist and poet; with Arthur Sullivan, The Mikado; H.M.S. Pinafore; The Pirates of Penzance
• Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) French philosopher; The Person and the Common Good; The Degrees of Knowledge; The Range of Reason
• Margaret Atwood (1939-) Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist; The Handmaid's Tale; Cat's Eye; Alias Grace; The Blind Assassin; Oryx and Crake; Surfacing

November 19

• Allen Tate (1899-1979) U.S. Poet Laureate who wrote "Ode to the Confederate Dead." Tate's works represent conflicted views on race in America.

November 20

• Nadine Gordimer (1923-1923) South African writer; The Conservationist; Burger's Daughter; July's People; Nobel Prize in Literature (1991)
• Don DeLillo (1936-) American novelist, playwright and essayist; White Noise; Libra; Mao II; Underworld; Cosmopolis

November 21

• Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher and satirist; Candide; Lettres Philosophiques (Letters Concerning the English Nation); Micromégas; Zadig; Songe de Platon (Plato's Dream)
• Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) Polish-born American author in Yiddish; The Magician of Lublin; A Day of Pleasure; A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories; Nobel Prize in Literature (1978)

November 22

• George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist who wrote Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner; Middlemarch; and Daniel Deronda
• André Gide (1869-1951) French author; L'immoraliste (The Immoralist); La porte étroite (Strait Is the Gate); Les caves du Vatican (The Vatican Cellars); La Symphonie Pastorale (The Pastoral Symphony); Les faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters); Nobel Prize in Literature (1947)
• Ross Calvin (1889-1970) American writer of the Southwest who wrote Sky Determines
• Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981) American composer; "Stardust"; "Georgia on My Mind"; "The Nearness of You"; "Heart and Soul"

November 23

• Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999) Indian Bengali-English writer; The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian; The Continent of Circe (essays)

November 24

• Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) Dutch-born Portuguese Jewish philosopher whose writings laid the groundwork for the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism. His magnum opus was the Ethics.
• Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
• Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) English-American novelist and playwright; The Secret Garden; Little Lord Fauntleroy; A Little Princess
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) French painter known for paintings of Paris night-life in the late 19th century, such as At the Moulin Rouge
• Scott Joplin (1868-1917) American composer; ragtime composer of "Maple Leaf Rag"; "The Entertainer"; opera Treemonisha.
• Arundhati Roy (1961 - ) Indian author of The God of Small Things

November 25

• Lope de Vega (1562-1635) Spanish playwright, poet and novelist, esteemed second only to Cervantes; Fuenteovejuna; El Perro del Hortelano (The Dog in the Manger); Punishment Without Revenge
• Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) American writer, critic, and naturalist who wrote The Desert Year; The Twelve Seasons; The Measure of Man
• Lewis Thomas (1913-1993) American physician and essayist who wrote The Lives of a Cell; The Medusa and the Snail; Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

November 26

• William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet; The Task; "John Gilpin"; hymns
• Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994) Romanian-French playwright who wrote The Bald Soprano; The Killer; Rhinoceros
• Frederik Pohl (1919-2013) American author of science fiction, especially Gateway; Man Plus; Jem

November 27

• James Agee (1909-1955) American author, poet, and critic who wrote A Death in the Family and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1958)

November 28

• William Blake (1757-1827) English poet and artist who wrote Songs of Innocence and of Experience; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Jerusalem; Milton
• Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) German philosopher who wrote The Communist Manifesto (with Karl Marx); The Condition of the Working Class in England
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) French anthropologist who wrote Tristes Tropiques (Sad Tropics); La Pensée Sauvage (The Savage Mind); Le Cru et le cuit (The Raw and the Cooked); Myth and Meaning
• Alan Lightman (1948 - ) American physicist and writer whose Einstein's Dreams combines these two interests. He has written numerous other short fiction pieces, books (nonfiction and novels), and articles.

November 29

• Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American novelist and poet; Little Women; Little Men; Jo's Boys
• C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) British novelist, poet, essayist, and lay theologian; Allegory of Love; The Chronicles of Narnia; The Space Trilogy; Mere Christianity; The Screwtape Letters; The Problem of Pain
• Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American author of children's literature (among others), known for A Wrinkle in Time and other books in the "Kairos" and "Chronos" series.

November 30

• John Bunyan (baptized, 1628-1688) English minister who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress; sermons
• Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-irish satirist, poet, and cleric known for Gulliver's Travels; A Tale of a Tub; A Modest Proposal
• Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910) American author of novels such as Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, as well as short stories like "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyberg" and "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
• L. M. Montgomery (1874-1942) Canadian author of children's literature; Anne of Green Gables and sequels; Rilla of Ingleside; Emily of New Moon and two more; the Avonlea stories
• Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman, historian, writer, and orator; The Second World War; A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
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