21 May 2013 Literary fact of the day 21 May 1944: Janet Dailey is born
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Modern Writers
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Frederick Forsyth The Day of the Jackal
Graham Greene Brighton Rock
Robert Graves Goodbye to All That
Dashiell Hammett Maltese Falcon
Robert Graves I, Claudius
Noel Streatfeild Ballet Shoes
L.P. Hartley The Go-Between
Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals
Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie
Graham Greene The Third Man
W.Somerset Maugham Best Short Stories
Franz Kafka The Trial
Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson
E.M.Forster The Machine Stops
Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby lives in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people, and yet no-one seems to know him or how he became so rich.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born in 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire. She was the seventh child of the local rector, and her life was by modern standards uneventful. In 1801 she moved with her parents to Bath, but returned to Hampshire when her father died, settling in the village of Chawton. She remained there until 1817, when she moved to Winchester to be within easy reach of her doctor. She died that year, aged forty-one. Four of her novels, including Pride and Prejudice, were published anonymously in her lifetime; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, along with several shorter works, appeared posthumously. She never married.
