Anniversaries, 14 March
Algernon Blackwood
The British author Algernon Henry Blackwood grew up in a strictly religious home in Kent. He soon abandoned his Christian faith for Buddhism, thereby laying the foundation for a life-long interest in Eastern mysticism, the occult and Theosophy. He spent a year between 1885 and 1886 with the Moravian Brethren in Germany, and after a failed business attempt he became a dairy farmer in Canada in 1890. Two years later he travelled to New York where he worked as a reporter for the New York Sun,...
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Sample of authors
Collins, Max Allan
A very productive American multitasker, known primarily as a crime author, born in Muscatine in Iowa. With the exception of a few years as a student, he has remained faithful to the town of his birth all his life, and he still lives there. He attended Muscatine Community College 1966–68, and then studied, among other things, Art at the University of Iowa in Iowa City 1968–72. In 1968 he married Ba...