2010 anniversaries of authors and illustrators
Lenona
800th Anniversary
Kuan Han-ch'ing
550th Anniversary
John Skelton
350th Anniversary
Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe)
250th Anniversary
Publication of "Little Boy Blue"
Mar: Camille Desmoulins
Oct: William Beckford
200th Anniversary
May: Margaret Fuller
Sep: Elizabeth Gaskell
Nov: Fritz Reuter
Dec: Alfred de Musset
150th Anniversary
Jan: Eleanor Henrietta Hull (The Boys' Cuchulain, 1910)
Jan: Anton Chekhov
Feb: Maria L. Kirk (illustrator of George MacDonald's books)
May: James Barrie (Peter Pan)
May: E. Boyd Smith (writer/illustrator: The Story of Noah’s Ark, 1905)
July: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
July: Owen Wister
Aug: Ernest Thompson Seton (Lobo: King of the Currumpaw)
Aug: Jules Laforgue
100th Anniversary
Death of:
Apr: Mark Twain
Jun: O. Henry
Nov: Leo Tolstoy
Publication of:
Fall: Old Mother West Wind
Nov. The Secret Garden
Birth of:
Jerrold Beim (Trouble After School)
Ann Dunnigan (translator of Leo Tolstoy's "Fables & Fairy Tales" and
"War & Peace")
Jan: Wright Morris
Jan: Joy Adamson
Mar: Nicholas Monsarrat
Apr: Harriet Doerr
May: Suekichi Akaba (Japanese illustrator and Hans Christian Andersen
Medalist)
May: Leo Lionni (Italian illustrator and Caldecott Honor winner)
May: Margaret Wise Brown (Goodnight Moon)
Jun: Florence Laughlin (The Little Leftover Witch)
Jun: Jean Anouilh
July: Alan Moorehead
Aug: Quentin Bell
Oct: Selina Chonz (Swiss poet: A Bell for Ursli)
Dec: Jean Genet
Dec: Paul Bowles
If anyone can provide the missing month dates for the few who need
them, please do.
Lenona.