I’m not sure how much the great authors are fans of one another’s work. I once did a post called Mudslinging Authors and Literary Daggers in which I quoted various authors’ opinions on other authors. It’s funny, but not very pretty.

Eldest Daughter did a seminar last semester in her graduate school on French author Emile Zola. I wonder if she would agree with Ibsen?

“Zola descends into the sewer to bathe in it, I to cleanse it.” — Henrik Ibsen.

Today is playwright Henrik Ibsen’s birthday, b.1828.

French novelist Emile Zola was born on April 2, 1820.