2012-12-12
Wednesday's Poem: "After the Wedding" by John Daniel, from Of Earth. Wednesday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of English novelist Patrick O'Brian, born Richard Patrick Russ in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire (1914). He wrote his first book at the age of 12, and it was published three years later. That book was Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard (1930), and he followed it up by writing several more stories of animals and adventure. His book Hussein: An Entertainment (1938) was the first work of contemporary fiction to be published by the Oxford University Press...